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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is is accompanied by unwanted s...
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Seeing Stars: Jupiter steals the show in cloudy night skies 26 September 2022After months of preparation, the moment of truth had arrived: would the skies above Leiden clear for the promised glitzy planet-and-star show? The peo...
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Executive Board column: How can we deal with hate speech? 26 September 2022I was disgusted by the recent Ongehoord Nederland broadcast on 15 September. The racist and hateful comments made by alumna Raisa Blommesteijn were, a...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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Social Resilience & Security seed funding for interdisciplinary research: call for proposals 22 September 2022The interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security is inviting proposals for seed funding. The programme aims to combine knowledge and expe...
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Brand-new Ehrenfest car park at LBSP is a breath of fresh air 21 September 2022The new Ehrenfest multi-storey car park at the heart of the Leiden Bio Science Park was opened today by the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of Le...
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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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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives 20 September 2022In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philoso...
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A year of Social Resilience & Security: Yearbook 2021 - 2022 20 September 2022
With the start of the new academic year, the Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme proudly presents their first yearbook. In the ye...
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Afraid of the dark? Anke Klein: 'Let your child have a say in finding a solution' 20 September 2022On Sunday night 25 September, all the lights in Leiden will switch off and we will see the starry sky above us twinkling in all its glory. A unique op...
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden 20 September 2022‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he s...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, is holding an open day on Sunday 25 September. It has had a branch at the Leiden Bio Science Park ...
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Leiden researchers receive Ig Nobel Prize for research into romantic click 16 September 2022Cognitive psychologists Eliska Prochazkova and Mariska Kret from Leiden University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the romantic cli...
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden 15 September 2022A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ot...