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Astronomer Joe Callingham testifies against killer stars in new show on Discovery Channel 17 September 2021On Friday evening 17 September, Leiden astronomer Joe Callingham can be seen in a new series on Discovery channel. Killers of the Cosmos is about diff...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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New book shows impact of coronavirus on Leiden 06 September 2021Tuesday 7 September sees the release of the book ‘Plots stond het Leidse leven stil’ by Charlotte Boin, a freelance writer from Leiden. This book of i...
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Six modes of co-production for sustainability - Marja Spierenburg in Nature Sustainability 20 August 2021In a recent publication in Nature Sustainability, an international team led by Josephine Chambers from Wageningen University, and including Marja Spie...
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Ton Liefaard presents at the Francophone association of ombudspersons platform 10 August 2021On 8 July 2021, The Francophone Association of Ombudspersons (L’Association des Ombudsmans et des Médiateurs de la Francophonie (AOMF)) launched their...
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Can businesses and employers demand proof of vaccination? 09 August 2021Can bars, gyms and travel providers refuse customers who have no proof of vaccination? And can an employer dismiss employees who are not vaccinated? R...
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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press 28 July 2021The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s spe...
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Paul Nieuwbeerta in The Lancet on detainees’ health 20 July 2021For the first time, research has been conducted on how the health of detained persons prior to their detention differs from that of non-detainees and ...
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Interview with Christa Tobler in de “Hofvijver” (Montesquieu Instituut) 30 June 2021On Monday 28 June 2021, a text based on an interview with Christa Tobler appeared in the Hofvijver (Montesquieu Instituut) on the relationship between...
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Five times more Covid vaccines from a vial with skin injection 17 June 2021Not ten but fifty Covid vaccines from one vial. This is possible if the vaccination is delivered into the skin rather than the muscle, research by int...
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CADS student contributes to SOMO research report that is being picked up by international media 02 June 2021Doing an internship at a research organisation and contributing to a report that is subsequently picked up by the national and international media. Wh...
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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students 01 June 2021Mathematician Oliver Nagy still vividly remembers the first time he learned about a random walk. ‘The lecturer told us to imagine a company of drunken...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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Capturing polarised light in the search for alien plants 18 May 2021A new way to decipher the light from distant worlds could give us unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial photosynthesis, and maybe alien plants, fi...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...