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What if life turns out completely differently than expected?Interview 25 November 2025Jantien Hadders (50), head of Education and Research Policy at FGGA, lost the love of her life and, to her great sadness, did not become a mother. It ...
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Arrival of cryostat marks milestone on the road to the world’s largest telescopeINSTRUMENTATION 25 November 2025After years of development, the moment has finally arrived: a massive cryostat, a highly advanced freezer that keeps the sensitive components extremel...
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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’Cleveringa Lecture 25 November 2025Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa ...
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Consensus, bias and polarisation: How mathematicians study opinionsCOMPLEX NETWORKS 25 November 2025How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one. PhD candidate Federico Ca...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants25 November 2025The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 February 202...
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TNO, HUM and the ISSC are jointly developing an ethical chatbot: ‘It is important that communication is tailored to the user’Interdisciplinary collaboration 25 November 2025The ISSC's ICT helpdesk receives dozens of questions from staff and students every day. A collaboration between TNO, LUCL and the ISSC aims to determi...
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Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completionImpact 25 November 2025It was more than twenty years ago that the plan for a Japanese-Dutch dictionary was born. Now it contains over 65,000 words, and completion is tentati...
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HEAR ME NOW: exhibition on the impact of sexual misconduct25 November 2025Portraits that gaze at you and have moving stories to tell: HEAR ME NOW says what usually remains unsaid. The exhibition in our Wijnhaven building bre...
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Taiwan’s public diplomacy, from the ground upPhD defence 24 November 2025Citizens can shape diplomacy, not just governments. Yung Lin investigates how people in Taiwan and Southeast Asia build trust, negotiate identity, and...
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Ukraine, Gaza, climate and migration: Geopolitics increasingly on the municipality’s plateInterview 24 November 2025From cities that sometimes deviate from national foreign policy to the direct influence of geopolitics on local developments, PhD candidate Pieter Jer...
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Three Leiden researchers receive NWO Open Competition grant for innovative scienceRESEACH GRANTS 24 November 2025Sustainable biotechnology, new insights into genome evolution and combining forces in mathematics. The NWO has awarded grants to these three innovativ...
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Lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' launches with opening by Professor Christine Moser24 November 2025The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' held its inaugural session on 20 November 2025, at Leiden Law School, featuring Professor Christi...
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Sarah de Rijcke appointed Rector Magnificus of Leiden UniversityExecutive Board 24 November 2025Professor Sarah de Rijcke will become the new Rector Magnificus on the Executive Board of Leiden University on 15 January 2026. She will succeed Profe...
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Work visit to EU Institutions in Brussels: ‘It is okay to be a generalist’24 November 2025A group of eighty humanities students visited the European Commission and the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the EU. This work visit w...
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‘Training the pharmacists of tomorrow is something we do together’Appointment 24 November 2025Martijn Manson became programme director for the Master’s in Pharmacy this month. He is a pharmacist as well as a lecturer and researcher at the LACDR...