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Open and free peer review? Here's how 13 February 2024
Are you looking for a free and transparent way to submit your scientific articles for peer review? Then look no further than Peer Community In (PCI). ...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’ 12 February 2024
‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis 08 February 2024
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024
On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024
On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Helping people live healthier lives? A game may be the answer 07 February 2024
The LUMC, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences want to help health professionals support behaviour change in the population....
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‘The goal is that we no longer have to talk about open science because all science is open’ 06 February 2024
Paul Wouters has been involved in open science for 30 years, from his first introduction to a preprint server in 1992 to his recent roles as Dean of t...
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024
Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024
Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Niek Kijk in de Vegte wins the Suzanne Hovinga Award 2023 31 January 2024
During the LACDR Fall Symposium, Niek Kijk in de Vegte received the annual Suzanne Hovinga Award for the best master thesis. Niek performed his RP1 re...
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Tamara Danilyuk wins the EUROTOX 2023 Early Career Award 31 January 2024
I am thrilled to share the exciting news of being honored with the 2023 Early Career Award at the EUROTOX conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This...
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Best poster award of the 5th QSPainRelief General Assembly meeting 31 January 2024
PhD candidate Divakar Budda (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) and Solen Gousset (UCLouvain) shared were the shared winners of the best p...
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ERA4Health grants for Bram Slütter, Amanda Foks and Ilze Bot 31 January 2024
Recently, Bram Slütter, Amanda Foks and Ilze Bot all individually obtained an ERA4Health research grant from the CARDINNOV 2023 program. In this progr...
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Welcome to our new CSC PhD candidates 31 January 2024
Recently, we have been welcomed our new CSC PhD candidates. Together with the faculty of Science and Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) we have intro...
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PhD-Postdoc event 2023 31 January 2024
In November, 2023, we organized our annual PhD-Postdoc event with the topic ‘future career opportunities’. After an interactive presentation ‘be prepa...