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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel 18 April 2024
The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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With 30 million dollars, this consortium aims to tackle tuberculosis 17 April 2024
Thanks to a clever research method, progress is being made in the quest for better tuberculosis medications. Within an American consortium that receiv...
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The Netherlands and China work together to improve their wastewater management 17 April 2024
Netherlands and China can learn from each other to handle household and livestock wastewater more sensibly. In the FOREWARD project, scientists from L...
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Christa Tobler speaks about ‘CJEU case law on gender diversity and discrimination’ 17 April 2024
On 16 April 2024, ERA (Europäische Rechtsakademie / European Law Academy) organised an online conference on the subject of 'Legal Aspects of Gender Id...
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Atherosclerosis resembles an autoimmune disease. Marie Depuydt graduated on this topic, with honours 17 April 2024
In addition to cholesterol and high blood pressure as risk factors for atherosclerosis, we may need to address our own immune system to prevent a hear...
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development 17 April 2024
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further profes...
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’ 16 April 2024
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, t...
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How these young researchers are preparing for their first scientific conference 16 April 2024
Three Psychology students will present a poster of their thesis research on Alzheimer’s and dementia at the international conference AAIC Neuroscience...
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Call for statements of interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective" 16 April 2024
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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Leiden’s poo can help rid patients of resistant gut bacteria 16 April 2024
Transferring poo from healthy donors to the intestines of chronically ill people has beneficial effects on these recipients’ gut bacteria, also in the...
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open 16 April 2024
Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open R...
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Jason Rudall publishes book on responsibility for environmental damage 16 April 2024
Jason Rudall, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has published a monograph entitle...
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Miranda van Eck new Scientific Director of the LACDR institute 16 April 2024
As of 1 September Miranda van Eck will be the new Scientific Director of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research. She succeeds Hubertus Irth, who...
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Sophie Starrenburg organises workshop on climate change and cultural heritage 16 April 2024
On 11 April 2024, Sophie Starrenburg, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organised a workshop on ‘Climate Chan...
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Scientists discover the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way 16 April 2024
A European team of astronomers has discovered the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way. It is more than thirty times as massive as our sun and ...