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What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz
Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.
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‘Put payment transations for private clients under one new state-owned bank’
From receiving our salary to doing our shopping: we are completely dependent on commercial banks for all our payment transactions. But what happens if they collapse? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Bart Joosen calls for a rigorous change: ‘Put payment transactions for private clients under one…
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Cybersecurity and privacy campaign kicks off: ‘Only by working together can we keep our university secure’
From choosing the right tools to locking your screen when you go to get a coffee: it’s often the little things that help you work securely. With our campaign ‘Check it: work privacy and security smart’, in the coming month we are focusing on protecting our information and data, including personal data.…
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’
Dick Schoof kan ook wel de buurman van de Haagse faculteit worden genoemd. Vooral vanuit zijn rol bij de NCTV werkte hij veel samen met de Universiteit Leiden en hielp hij onderwijs en onderzoek vooruit, vertelt hoogleraar Terrorisme en Contraterrorisme Edwin Bakker. ‘Voor een kritische vriend was altijd…
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Ethics committee for partnerships launched
The ‘Committee for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Partnerships’ is being launched this month. This committee, created by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and consisting of former and present Leiden University researchers, has been tasked with assessing Leiden University’s institutional ties with organisations…
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Students work on bacterium that makes sustainable plastic
A group of biology students are working on a solution to the world’s plastics problem by getting bacteria to make biodegradable plastic.
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Academic freedom report
What does academic freedom mean? And how do we give shape to it in Leiden? The Academic Freedom Core Team considered these questions and presented its final report on 17 June.
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Ambassadors visit Leiden: ‘Knowledge knows no borders’
Over 30 ambassadors strengthened their ties with researchers and university leaders in a recent visit to Leiden University. Cross-border collaboration (both literal and figurative) was the theme of presentations and a tour of the Hortus botanicus.
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From droplets in the freezer to the inception of a potent new antibiotic
What started as an idea during a social gathering led to an unexpected breakthrough in research on resistant bacteria. Biologists and chemists from Leiden developed a new substance that proves to be effective against bacteria resistant to antibiotics. They published their discovery in Nature Chemist…
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Spinoza Prize for Professor Bernet Elzinga
How can parents avoid passing on stress and mental health problems to their children? Professor of Stress-Related Psychopathology Bernet Elzinga develops simple interventions to help both parents and young people. For her research, she has been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest academic honour…
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Hydropower, but without devastating consequences for fish and fishermen
Hydropower plants need not be disastrous for fishermen and nature. For that, we need to place new dams more strategically, but also modify or even remove some existing ones. Valerio Barbarossa and Rafael Schmitt showed that with a computer model of the Asian Mekong basin.
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’
Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…
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‘The complex puzzle of housing and urban development makes this work so fascinating’
Chris Suijker, since 1 July the new director of Real Estate, likes healthy and sustainable university buildings where you ‘get the feeling you’re right at the heart of society’. Her aim is to achieve the same effect with even more buildings.
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Open Science Coffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
Lecture
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Purple Friday (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Open Science Coffee: ChatGPT in science: academic (dis)honesty or better science?
Lecture
- Leiden Marathon on May 13 and 14
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Open Science Coffee: Non-replication pathways
Lecture
- Healthy University Week: Spring into action!
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Academia in Motion Festival
Festival
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Leiden Research Support Conference
Conference
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law / Introductory Course PhD-candidates
Research
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Entrepreneurship as a career prospect for postdocs
Career development
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching
Course, Hackathon
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Qualitative interviewing
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Leadership with impact
Leadership
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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Nature Calls
Arts and culture, Performance
- Visit of the TEC laboratories at ESA ESTEC
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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PhD Library Skill Session of 2021-2022
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LACDR Spring symposium 2023
Symposium
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Great Symposium LBC - Extreme Extremities
Symposium
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Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden
Stadswandeling
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
Lecture
- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
- Veni pre-proposal information briefing
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
- Introductory Meeting PhD
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Lecture
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10th Life Science Symposium
Conference
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Life Sciences with Industry 2023
Course
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IBL Spotlight - Science Communication & Society
Lecture
- Introductory Meeting PhD (online)
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Leiden2022 Life Sciences and Health Week
Conference
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Innovating for change
Community event | workshops
- Introductory Meeting PhD (online)