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A first glimpse at the new SRON building
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. The headquarters of the institute will relocate to the Science Campus of Leiden University. In October 2019, the first pile was officially put into the ground; in 2021, the building will be ready for use. A first glimpse at the building that will…
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How Witte, the garden manager, made the Hortus flourish
For more than forty years Heinrich Witte was responsible for the flora in the Hortus botanicus in Leiden. The 19th-century garden manager made the Netherlands famous with plants from Japan. The Old University Library is showing an exhibition of his work (19 August to 4 November).
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Student in war time
Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. How does he look back at that time, and what was life like afterwards? ‘No one thought that the situation here would become so bad.’
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‘LIBC Junior is bursting with new ideas’
How does the brain develop from birth up to adolescence? And why are young people given so little information about the development of their brain? Two new websites of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition provide an answer.
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Education Festival presents the future of teaching
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on teaching at universities over the past two years. Through force of circumstances, lecturers have adapted much faster to a digital future. On 7 June Leiden Teachers Academy’s annual Education Festival (working language is English) will present insights on this ‘new n…
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Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER) (Leiden University)
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a postdoctoral Researcher (0.8 fte for 3 years) in the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550’ (PRAYER). Candidates are…
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A Change of Course: When Will We Realise We Are All In The Same Boat
Part Three: A Change of Course
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The magic of projection
Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Artist Sophie Ernst demonstrates this in a thesis and an exhibition. She defends her PhD on 8 December.
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Being the first: the university wide network for first generation academics
Thematic Meeting Leiden Empowerment Fund
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Finding your way at the job market as a first-generation student
Thematic meeting Leiden Empowerment Fund
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Finding an internship as a first-generation student
Thematic meeting Leiden Empowerment Fund
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OSCL meets YAL: The challenges of working with an open science mindset in a business driven environment
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Open Science Coffee: Online walk-in hour for anything OS and responsible scientific conduct related
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
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OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
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Open Science Coffee: User experiences on preregistration
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Open Science Coffee: Credit where credit is due - a lesson from team science
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Open Science Coffee: Form and Content Innovations in Open Publishing
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Open Science Coffee: Publish Your Reviews
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Open Science Coffee: Practicing what we preach: Our journey toward open science
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Open Science Coffee: Direct publishing as an answer to problems in scholarly publishing
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Open Science Coffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
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Open Science Coffee: Developing tools and practices to promote open and efficient science
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Open Science Coffee: Non-replication pathways
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OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
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Open Science Coffee: Experimenting with an open, continuous deployment PhD dissertation
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Open Science Coffee: A hands-on guide to preprints
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Open Science Coffee: Assessing robustness through multiverse analysis – Applications in research and education
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Open Science Coffee: Open Access Q&A, explaining different options based on four researcher profiles
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OSCoffee: Open Science in Criminology - barriers and opportunities
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OSCoffee: Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Open Science Coffee: ChatGPT in science: academic (dis)honesty or better science?
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- Datamanagement plans at Leiden University, when and how to get started
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Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy: Some Remarks on Leiden Philosophy’s Mission
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- International Data Week: pilots for preparing, publishing and monitoring Leiden research data
- Making your data FAIR at Leiden University, when and how to get started
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Leiden Competition Talk: Case allocation within the European Competition Network (who should do what?)
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Doing a master’s in Political Science at Leiden University: online Q&A
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Open Science Coffee: How to justify your sample size?
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OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
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AI versus the fire
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- ‘Worker’s Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)’ (Leiden University and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
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Flying visit by high-ranking Chinese delegation
A high-ranking delegation from China visited Leiden on 6 November. The party of some 25 officials from the CPPCC – a Chinese advisory body comparable with the Dutch Senate - visited the Leiden Observatory, the Hortus Botanicus and the Asian Library.
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Nienke Beets wins prize for connecting nature and art
Nienke Beets of the Leiden Hortus botanicus has won the brand new Joke 't Hart Prize for connecting nature and art. For the botanical garden in Leiden, she developed a series of colourful plant icons and an educational board game. On 20 May, the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens (NVBT) unanimously…
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Life Sciences Café visits NeCEN
On 21 March The Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN) hosted the Life Sciences Café. Around 60 people from neighbour companies from the Leiden BioScience Park visited the facility for cryo-electron microscopy to get a glimpse behind the scenes. Head of NeCEN Ludo Renault believes it was…
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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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‘The Honours Academy is a testing ground’
Pushing the limits and trying things out. The academic year of the Honours Academy started on 10 October and all the speakers encouraged students to jump in at the deep end.
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy?
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
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Development matters - Longitudinal pathways in brain and behavior
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