Webinar, Q&A, discussion

Lecture

For the eleventh time in a row, Leiden University’s unique liberal arts and sciences programme has been awarded the ‘Top Rated Programme’ quality seal by Keuzegids universiteiten 2024.

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

‘AI can’t do half as much as people think,’ says computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn. He tries to teach robots seemingly easy things, and keeps on discovering how smart human intelligence really is. Three things that computers are no way near doing.

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

CWTS published its open science policy in 2021. The development of this policy was coordinated by Thed van Leeuwen and Ludo Waltman. In this Open Science Coffee conversation, they reflect on the journey CWTS is making toward more open ways of working. A good place to get inspiration for your next step…

Emmely Benschop (41) has been working as the new director of the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) in The Hague for several months now. She sees significant growth potential.

As well as offering students a first-rate education, Leiden University provides a wide range of training for professionals, so they can be lifelong learners. And that is not just of value to participants. ‘As a university, you start a dialogue with society to achieve better knowledge together.’

Cristina Del Real, Assistant Professor in Cyber Crisis at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, participated in the presentation of the Office of Science and Technology (OficinaC) of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (the Spanish Parliament). She is an expert on cyber security, one of the four…

Lecture

As team science becomes common, author lists grow. This means it becomes more complex to give credit to the great variety of roles that contribute to large research project. I will here showcase one potential solution: the graphical authorship table, and highlight its benefits even for projects with…

One of our RISE members, Prof. Laura Heitman, has been nominated for the TOPX Females to Follow “Guiding Star” award. TOPX empowers promising and ambitious women, and aims to honour inspirational females with remarkable careers in Life Sciences. TOPX selected her (and 7 other female professionals) because…

In this talk, we’ll introduce some new tools that aim to improve the efficiency of researchers’ work and the accumulation of knowledge. By increasing efficiency, we aim to minimize the workload of researchers and help the adoption of new research practices. The presented tools are the following: (1)…

The past few days we interviewed several of our researchers about their various studies during Dutch Bio Science Week. They answered questions such as what impact their research has on our future and with whom they have established valuable collaborations.

Festival

Seven hundred and three independent student flats will be built in the entrance area of the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP), close to the University Sports Centre. Construction will begin this year and the accommodation is expected to be completed by the start of academic year 2023-2024.

The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…

A new study sugggests that through informal networks, Mesopotamian merchants established a standardized system of weights that later spread across Europe, enabling trade across the continent. The advance effectively formed the first known common Eurasian market more than 3000 years ago. “This is…

Dutch influencers like Romy Boomsma and Nina Pierson have a huge following on Instagram and are increasingly sharing book tips there. Researcher Aafje de Roest wants to find out more about the reading culture they are promoting and its effect on the reading habits of their mostly young female follow…

Debate, Lunch

In this next session of the “Fall theme: preregistration and registered reports” we want to give the word to you - OSCL members and affiliates - to talk about your experiences when it comes to preregistration during our Open Science Coffee. Good experiences, bad experiences, tops, tips, from users who…

Debate, Lunch

Abstract: Publish Your Reviews – A bottom-up initiative to improving our peer review practices The peer review system is under strong pressure and its long-term sustainability seems questionable. However, developments around preprinting and transparent peer review offer opportunities to improve…

Professor of Science Communication Ionica Smeets will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University. She receives the award because she exemplifies how science communication can bridge the gap between experts and the general public.

Within the scope of Leiden European City of Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) presented the quadrennial Lorentz Medal to Daan Frenkel in the Academy Building yesterday. The ceremony was in collaboration with the Lorentz Center and was attended by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister…

PhD candidate Sibel Bahtiri is one of the new Faces of Science. In videos and blogs, she will show what life is like as a young researcher.

Many researchers have experienced or heard about studies failing to replicate. In this OSCoffee, Ralph Rippe will share his experiences with replication throughout the years. More often than once has he asked himself why a seemingly strong result from a single study does not replicate in an(y)other…

On April 1, Marco Spruit, Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), will deliver his inaugural lecture ‘Translational Data Science in Population Health’. Spruit will use the opportunity…

Workshop