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How false consensus biases AI against vulnerable stakeholders25 March 2026The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' continued on 19 March 2026 at Leiden Law School with Dr Mengchen Dong from the Center for Humans ...
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New Collection Policy Plan Leiden University Libraries25 March 2026Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently issued a new collection policy plan, containing priorities for the coming years regarding the formation, ma...
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Max van Duijn, new chair of The Young Academy: ‘We need to be more resilient to ideological pressure’The Young Academy 25 March 2026Assistant professor Max van Duijn is the new chair of The Young Academy. He aims to support young academics, bring research closer to society and make...
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Open Science at FGGA: from extra task to a natural way of workingAcademia in motion 25 March 2026What does it take to ensure that Open Science does not feel like an additional task, but instead becomes a natural part of good academic practice? Dur...
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Paper versus practice: border control is in human handsPhD defence 25 March 2026Even when a border has officially disappeared, it is still people who decide whether others may cross freely. This was also true for the Polish-German...
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Revolution in Archaeology: Virtual Excavation with AI iDigArtificial intelligence 24 March 2026The days of an archaeologist studying soil traces with a shovel in hand seem to be numbered. Digital archaeologists will soon launch the first version...
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Two planets-in-formation discovered around young star WISPIT 2Astronomy 24 March 2026In the disk surrounding the young star WISPIT 2, not one but two planets are taking shape. Leiden PhD candidate Richelle van Capelleveen played a key ...
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“Between the River and the Sea”: An Evening of Theatre and Dialogue at Leiden University24 March 2026How can we sustain dialogue on a deeply divisive issue within our university community? On 16 February 2026, Leiden University hosted "Between the Riv...
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Psychology lecturers awarded grant for ‘Family Dinner’ critical thinking appTeaching 24 March 2026Lecturers Zsuzsika Sjoerds and Sebo Uithol have been awarded a 100,000-euro Dutch National Education Institute (NKO) Scale-Up Grant for their ‘Family ...
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What does a cell eat? This new tool makes it visiblePhd defence 24 March 2026What if you could watch a single cell eat in real time? This could answer questions about diseases such as cancer. PhD candidate Yixuan Wang has devel...
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Grants and appointments for microbiome research, enzyme development and moreGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 24 March 2026Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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How vulnerable is the Netherlands to an energy crisis?Current affairs 24 March 2026The Iran war has pushed up fuel prices and raised concerns about a global energy shortage. How well prepared is the Netherlands? We asked two experts,...
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From walking sticks to guide dogs: Krista Milne charts the lives of medieval people with disabilitiesVIDI-beurs 24 March 2026What was life like for people with disabilities in the Middle Ages? University lecturer Krista Milne delved into medieval manuscripts and found more t...
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Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire usePaleoecology 23 March 2026Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard U...
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Never home alone: which species share your house (unwanted or not)?Biology 23 March 2026From spiders in the bathroom to mice in the kitchen, we share our homes with far more species than we realise (whether we like it or not). Researchers...