The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…

Network meeting

Network meeting

Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psychology. Their aim: giving the subject a more prominent position in the academic’s mind.

Network meeting

Netwerkbijeenkomst

Netwerkbijeenkomst

Network meeting

In the online panel discussion of ESOF 2022 ‘The effect of the online world on adolescents’, together with Amy Orben, Professor Eveline Crone, Sterre van Riel, Professor Anne-Laura van Harmelen and Professor Jan Sleutels, Professor Ton Liefaard shared his research on adolescents and the online world…

Crafts and innovation have always gone hand in hand. Nowadays a global re-evaluation of craft and craftsmanship is clearly noticeable. This is not a nostalgic return to an idealised past. It is a search to achieve a more sustainable society. Crafts can play a central role in different sciences and innovation.…

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…

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…

Lecture

Lecture

Based on 4 researcher profiles we look at the various options that you have to publish Open Access, and give an indication of what solution will best suit your needs and what you should do to realise this result. We touch upon funder requirements, costs, deals with publishers, preprints postprints and…

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…

Lecture

Lecture

Recently I decided to host my PhD dissertation online. Not in the traditional sense of making the finished product available on an open access repository, but to release chapters as I finish early drafts and update them as I receive feedback; essentially, a (semi-)continuous deployment PhD dissertation.…

Lecture

Abstract: Preprints are (academic) manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published in a traditional publishing venue. In Open Science and academic publishing, the preprint increasingly appears on the radar as an important element in academic communication. By posting preprints, academics…

Lecture

Lecture

Webinar, Q&A, discussion

Webinar, Q&A, and discussion

Lecture

The Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID) is excited to host a Developmental Neuroscience conference on Tuesday 22 March. On this one-day interactive conference we will discuss why Development Matters! The Covid infection rates are decreasing and we no longer have a…

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture

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…

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)…

It is becoming increasingly more likely that researchers have to justify the sample size for their study at some point. This kind of information often needs to be included in an application for funding, a (mandatory) data management plan, a pre-registration document, or an application to get the study…

Lecture

Lecture

Preregistration is the practice of publishing the plan for a study before the data have been collected or examined. This plan may include research questions and hypotheses, research design, and data analysis protocol. A preregistration document is time-stamped and uploaded on an independent platform…

Tickets: buy a ticket (€4) to attend the lecture at the Old Observatory Live stream: find the link for the live stream (free) at the Kaiser Spring Lectures webpage

Tickets: buy a ticket (€4) to attend the lecture at the Old Observatory Live stream: find the link for the live stream (free) at the Kaiser Spring Lectures webpage

Lecture

Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…

Leiden is the host of the EuroScience Open Forum conference (ESOF). This is Europe's largest multidisciplinary scientific conference. Its tenth edition will take place from the 13th to the 16th of July 2022.

Debate, Roundtable

On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day (February 21, 2022) and at the start of the UNESCO International Decade for Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as well as Leiden City of Science in 2022, the CIPL/CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World, Leiden University,…

Six months after launch, the James Webb telescope is ready to show its first color images. On Tuesday 12 July, these first images from the world's largest space telescope will be released by NASA, ESA and CSA during a live TV broadcast. At the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave we will be commemorating this historic…

The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, the Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Youth Climate Movement NL) became the first youth organization to win first prize. An interview with LUC Alumna and Board Member…

Lecture + Q&A

A Minecraft village is about to go up in flames! Save it using artificial intelligence and predict where the next fire will break out. This way you can prevent the spread of fires and bring the forest back to life.

From 2017-2021 Mr. Roeland Böcker served as Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Council of Europe. Together with his colleagues from the other 46 Member States, he took part in the meetings of the Committee of Ministers, the main decision-making body of the organisation. In this capacity…

Debate, Roundtable Conversation