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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brussels’ as bureaucratic, even undemocratic, bypassing its citizens. And many of us buy into that image. Nikoleta Yordanova, Anastasia Ershova and Aleksandra…
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Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’
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.
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'canon of the Dutch underexposed past', which…
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'The bachelor Public Administration made it easier for me to understand complicated topics'
Nienke Weijermars studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. While doing her bachelor’s, she enrolled in the minor in Journalism and New Media, followed by an internship at Dutch local newspaper Leidsch Dagblad: 'At Leidsch Dagblad, they really had time to teach me…
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these consortia. These five consortia will receive grants worth a total of almost 24 million euros. They relate to interdisciplinary projects that will bring…
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From sensation to a sense of purpose: the draw of the far right
What makes people in the Netherlands join radical and far-right groups? PhD candidate Nikki Sterkenburg followed several activists. ‘Some feel it is their duty to defend the Dutch nation.’ PhD defence on 19 May.
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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A call about: the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)
Would you like to organise a session during the biggest multidisciplinary event in Europe - the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference - to be held in Leiden from 13 to 16 July 2022? If so, send us your proposal! Archaeologist Corinne Hofman is one of the driving forces behind the conference and…
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Social and Behavioural Sciences: from insight to impact
Working towards resilient communities, transparency in science and connecting with the employment market – these are the three key themes being addressed by the departments of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Dutch universities. On 11 February, they presented a joint sector plan to Marcelis Boereboom,…
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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‘Make science communication more work and less hobby’
Young researchers met this month for the fifth Science Communication Summer School. ‘This is the first time some participants get to meet other researchers who also enjoy science communication. It’s great to see’, says Julia Cramer, one of the coordinators.
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Posting preprints: ‘There is no reason not to’
Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been peer reviewed? Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and keen preprint poster Ludo Waltman explains.
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Democratie, deugden docentschap
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Antibiotic Discovery: From mechanistic studies to target ID
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Breaking the witches' spell
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Governing decentralized States during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Ja, de Litteratuur is nu eenmaal een wonderlik vak
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Exploring Deep Learning for Multimodal Understanding
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Patient-derived models of breast cancer: A breakthrough story of the duct
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Van struikelblok naar bouwsteen
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Synthesis of chemical tools to study the immune system
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Maneuvering through a World of Stressors
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Ministers van Staat
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The energy and material related impacts of the transition towards low- carbon heating
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Spice War: Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands (c. 1600-1656)
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Poprhyrin-based metal-organic frameworks for the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction
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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
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Disrupting the transcriptional machinery to combat triple-negative breast cancer
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Modelling the role of mycorrhizal associations in soil carbon cycling
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Neurodevelopmental Impact of Sex Chromosome Trisomy in Young Children
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Understanding the Drivers of Voluntary Accountability by European Union Agencies: Look to the Forum!
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Silver of the Possessed. Egyptian zar jewellery between 1900-1980
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Just to be sure?
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Manipulation of Superconductivity in van der Waals Materials and Thin Films
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Single-cell immune profiling of atherosclerosis
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Prying eyes on radio skies
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Big simulations for big problems
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Mechanism-Based Inhibitors and Probes for Neuraminidases
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Who gets what, when, and how?
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CM-values of p-adic Theta-functions
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Liveblog as Genre in Pursuit of Credibility
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Ingredients of the planet-formation puzzle
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Data Structures for Quantum Circuit Verification and How To Compare Them
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Chirurgijns in den vreemde. De geneeskundige zorg van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) voor haar personeel in Azië
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Quantifying nucleosome dynamicsand protein binding with PIE-FCCS and spFRET
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The European Precariat
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Measuring Cold Molecular Gas Across Cosmic Time
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Bioorthogonal chemistry to unveil antigen processing events
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Motivic invariants of character stacks
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