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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professionals shared knowledge, gained inspiration and became acquainted or got to know each other even better at the third Leiden Research Support Conference…
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Working together on a liveable planet
What can you do about sustainability in your immediate living environment? On Thursday afternoon, April 14, the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden was filled with policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, citizens, students, and even the mayor of Leiden. Leiden University and the Association of Dutch Municipalities…
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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Richard Karlsson Linnér: ‘I expect a future where a genetic test will be as much a no-brainer as getting X-rayed.’
Assistant Professor Karlsson Linnér, who works at the Department of Economics, is one of the recipients of a Veni grant. His research on the accuracy of preventive genetic testing is a fine example of the intersection of economic science and law.
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia”, led by Fenneke Sysling. Below they introduce themselves.
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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MIRD student Ricardo: ‘Students can change the world’
During International Student Week, from 14 to 18 November, we would like to put our international students into the spotlight. Ricardo Alexandre de Jesus Vaz (21) from Portugal is in his first year at FGGA and a student in the Master International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD).
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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European Strategic Dialogue seminar series
Lecture
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FSW Faculty Lunch on Mental Health at Work
Conference
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Longing to the Gray: Nostalgia, Nationalism and Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Needham Question: Did Needham Need to Pose It? Is He Guilty of Coloniality?
Lecture
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Pushing the Frontiers of Federated Learning: From Security Applications to Mitigation of Poisoning Attack
Lecture
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Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited to an event celebrating
Lecture, Book talk
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Digging for a Liveable Planet?
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Free-riding on scrappage subsidies
Lecture
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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Liveable Planet Lunch Meeting: "The dark side of co-creation in sustainability research"
Lecture
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Making of a Standard Mountain: A Road-Construction Campaign of 1934 and the Formation of Mount Huang’s Modern Image
Lecture
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Zooming in on Black Holes with a telescope the size of planet Earth
Lecture, Kaiser Spring Lecture
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Connect & Preserve: File formats
Lecture + Q&A
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The Rule of Law Under Challenge: The Enmeshment of National and International Trends
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Annual Social Citizenship and Migration Symposium
Conference
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Vincent Traag
Lecture
- Geopolitics of predatory academia: from predatory journals to mislocated centers of scholarly communication
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RENPET round table: Europe's turning point
Debate
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Advancing the evaluation of graduate education
PhD defence
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: Changing Service Professionals' Attitudes to Volunteers
Lecture
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Playing dice with the Universe
PhD defence
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Connect & Learn: How a large, complex, sensitive dataset is managed for long-term access and use
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