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Better screening can help GPs recognise anxiety disorders earlier 15 February 2023Only one in five young people with emotional health problems such as an anxiety disorder receives appropriate professional help. GPs often fail to pro...
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PhD candidate Auke-Florian Hiemstra named Person of the Year 26 January 2023Auke-Florian Hiemstra, an external PhD candidate at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, is the Leidsch Dagblad Person of the Year 2022. With more than 1,00...
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Healthy living? People often want to solve problems like debt or mouldy walls first 25 January 2023Doctors can repair a lot, but preventing or delaying illness is better. This often requires lifestyle change and that turns out to be difficult. Dr. V...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray 19 December 2022Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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‘Migration’, ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages 16 December 2022How can teachers have a balanced conversation in the classroom about migration policy, asylum seekers or ethnic discrimination on the labour market? S...
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum 12 December 2022From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them m...
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database 25 November 2022What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Facu...
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication 21 September 2022Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science ...
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Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit 16 August 2022When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden...
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Mesmerising images from James Webb space telescope 13 July 2022The 'deepest and sharpest' image of the Universe to date: the first photos from the new James Webb space telescope yesterday mesmerised astronomers an...
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LDE white paper on critical materials, green energy and geopolitics 28 June 2022With its Green Deal The European Union has set itself much-needed ambitious climate goals. But the energy crisis and geopolitical tensions are making ...
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Minister wants to learn from dissertation on veteran policy 23 June 2022Theo van den Doel received his PhD in January for his research on veteran support. This showed that for long the government learned little from past m...
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Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen 17 June 2022With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
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Jan Willem Erisman on the nitrogen crisis: 'The measurement model works, but the minister is setting reduction targets that are too high' 16 June 2022Opponents of drastic nitrogen measures argue that the nitrogen calculation model is not reliable enough. Nitrogen professor Jan Willem Erisman: 'It is...