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International news platform seeks Leiden academics with a good story 13 February 2024Would you like to share your academic research with a diverse international audience? On the not-for-profit news platform The Conversation, academics ...
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Open and free peer review? Here's how 13 February 2024Are you looking for a free and transparent way to submit your scientific articles for peer review? Then look no further than Peer Community In (PCI). ...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis 08 February 2024How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Dehumanising: how students reject candidate housemates 08 February 2024Being rejected always hurts, but so does having to reject someone. Social psychologists have discovered that at interviews to select suitable housemat...
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Helping people live healthier lives? A game may be the answer 07 February 2024The LUMC, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences want to help health professionals support behaviour change in the population....
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‘The goal is that we no longer have to talk about open science because all science is open’ 06 February 2024Paul Wouters has been involved in open science for 30 years, from his first introduction to a preprint server in 1992 to his recent roles as Dean of t...
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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Give peace a chance: the way conflict can be eased, according to social psychology 01 February 2024How to reduce aggression when two parties are at odds? PhD research by psychologist Lennart Reddmann shows that it can help to offer them a peaceful a...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...