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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is is accompanied by unwanted s...
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’ 27 September 2022On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Leiden University to discuss future developmen...
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Leiden University ends participation in EUniWell pilot 27 September 2022
Leiden University has decided to withdraw from EUniWell as of January 2023. The importance of synergy in our international portfolio and research and ...
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Two new publications by Sven Lütticken 27 September 2022In September Lütticken released two new publications: 'Objections- Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1' and 'Art and Autonomy: A Critical Reader'.
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Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease 26 September 2022Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. ...
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Seeing Stars: Jupiter steals the show in cloudy night skies 26 September 2022After months of preparation, the moment of truth had arrived: would the skies above Leiden clear for the promised glitzy planet-and-star show? The peo...
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Executive Board column: How can we deal with hate speech? 26 September 2022I was disgusted by the recent Ongehoord Nederland broadcast on 15 September. The racist and hateful comments made by alumna Raisa Blommesteijn were, a...
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‘Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar’ debate: ‘World Cup football is never just about sport’ 26 September 2022Various guests with a background in human rights, law, politics and international relations will be taking part in the ‘Human Rights and the World Cup...
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Dutch people should stop ‘politely’ switching to English 26 September 2022Endangered languages can survive if they are taught properly to new speakers, such as people with a migrant background. This is what Professor by Spec...
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’ 26 September 2022September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. ...
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Official opening of the Acts of Kindness pillar in the Lipsius building 26 September 2022It has already been a huge success in The Hague, and now the Lipsius building has one, too: an Acts of Kindness pillar. The official opening took plac...
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A quick call on the war in Ukraine: 'Putin has made a diplomatic end almost impossible' 23 September 2022The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase with the announcement of a partial Russian military mobilisation and the intention to annex four Ukrainian ...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration to meet the energy transition and adapt to climate change 23 September 2022Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning argue that in the current moment of major crises ship channels necessitate radical reconsid...
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How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer 23 September 2022Much of the work of Serge Fehr, Professor of Quantum Information Theory, is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his wo...