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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands 03 February 2023
BrainTrain: an initiative from Leiden University in which a team of students visit high schools to make adolescents more resilient against disinformat...
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants 02 February 2023
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has...
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023) 01 February 2023
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Le...
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ICT conference Our Digital Future: ‘This touches on everything we do here’ 31 January 2023
What are the digital challenges facing us now and in the near future? This was the question discussed by over 250 ICT experts, functional application ...
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’ 31 January 2023
Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reali...
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’ 31 January 2023
With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...
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Allocation of the work areas of the Humanities Campus: Who goes where? 31 January 2023
It was announced in December that a new draft urban development plan for the Humanities Campus is now ready. In drawing up this plan for the various b...
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A quick call with Joop van der Born about the ISSC’s refer-a-friend scheme 31 January 2023
The University urgently needs IT talent. The ISSC has therefore started a pilot refer-a-friend scheme: if you recommend someone you know for a hard-to...
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Four reasons why you should make use of LLInC, the brand-new knowledge centre 31 January 2023
Educational innovation provides both opportunities and challenges for lecturers. How do you put your innovative ideas into practice or how do you choo...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for three Leiden researchers 31 January 2023
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: three Leiden researc...
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Rogier Creemers on CNBC about China’s big tech policy 30 January 2023
Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rog...
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Five activities to look forward to this semester 30 January 2023
A fresh semester means a fresh faculty calendar. There is plenty to do at the faculty again in the coming months. Five interesting activities are list...
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students 27 January 2023
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday...
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The more time, the better the kidney 26 January 2023
There are never enough donor organs. And the organs that there are have to be transplanted at lightning speed. Medical science is therefore working ha...
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PhD candidate Auke-Florian Hiemstra named Person of the Year 26 January 2023
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, an external PhD candidate at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, is the Leidsch Dagblad Person of the Year 2022. With more than 1,00...