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Pitching Heritage13 February 2025Do you want your research to fit the rubric of heritage? Is heritage a relevant concept here? These were some of the questions that came up in the liv...
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Special telescope measures neutrino with highest energy everPhysics 12 February 2025Even with state-of-the-art technology, it is almost impossible to see: a cosmic neutrino. Yet scientists have managed to image this particle with a de...
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Most children placed in care will not return home11 February 2025After compulsory placement in care, four in ten children return home. Of these, one in four re-enters care. Emergency care orders are often used and o...
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Now also in Indonesia: The butterflies of Boven-Digoel11 February 2025Three years ago, associate professor Alicia Schrikker published De vlinders van Boven-Digoel, in which she chronicled several stories about colonial l...
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Leiden University transfers unique collection of historical objects over to Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveScience and Heritage 11 February 2025Lenses from Christiaan Huygens’ telescope, instruments used to demonstrate Newton’s laws, and equipment that led to the discovery of superconductivity...
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Professors from The Hague in the classroom: ‘Why do you have to wear such a long dress?’Meet the Professor 11 February 2025The celebration of the university’s 450th anniversary is not confined to the walls of the university. For the 7th time, professors stood in front of t...
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Police face complex challenges: ‘Uphold the rule of law’Inaugural lecture Monica den Boer 10 February 2025The Dutch police face complex challenges, from organised crime and polarisation to digitalisation and new forms of crime. To deal with this effectivel...
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Lecture by Eliot Higgins: from conspiracy theories to profiting from false information10 February 2025'The way we consume information has changed dramatically over the past fifteen years. You're no longer just a receiver; you participate, create, and s...
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Thesis on homeless people's gendered experiences wins FSW Thesis Prize 202407 February 2025With her thesis 'Gendered Experiences and Homelessness Trajectories: An Anthropological Fieldwork Study in The Hague, the Netherlands', Elleke Schreur...
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’06 February 2025The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were in...
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From celestial bodies to plant bodies: exhibition brings together worlds of plants and planetsLeiden Observatory and Hortus botanicus 06 February 2025The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus...
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geologyExhibition at Oude UB 05 February 2025Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theo...
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Improved safety needed in women’s prisonsReport and recommendations 05 February 2025A report by Leiden researchers Esther van Ginneken and Yara Abbing claims that boundary violations and discrimination are a structural problem in wome...
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Podcast 'Mind the Gap' bridges the gap between graduating and finding a first jobMind the Gap 04 February 2025This week, we are launching the new podcast Mind the Gap, an initiative that helps students navigate the transition from graduation to their first job...
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Cheaper, more accurate DNA sequencingDutch Research Council grant 03 February 2025A new graphene-based method could make for faster, cheaper and more accurate DNA sequencing, say a group of Leiden physicists and chemists. They have ...