774 search results for “impact of science communication” in the Staff website
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.
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‘Immigration doesn’t threaten welfare states’
It is often thought that immigration threatens the solidarity on which redistribution relies. But looking at the post-war period, PhD candidate Emily Anne Wolff finds that this is not the case.
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Award of 33 Kiem grants for new interdisciplinary initiatives
No fewer than 55 applications were submitted for a Kiem seed grant, an initiative for developing new interdisciplinary, interfaculty research partnerships and encounters. The draw took place on Monday for the allocation of 22 seed grants. The Executive Board was so impressed with the number of applications…
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CANCELLED: Digital Twin Engineering
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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IBL Spotlight - Host-Microbe Interactions
Lecture
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
Lecture
- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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Towards conversational information seeking
Lecture
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Detailed Video Understanding
Lecture
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
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Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks
Lecture
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
Lecture
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Computational User Modelling
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Models Combination in Multi-stage Information Retrieval Architectures
Lecture
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Policy Academy Programme
Research
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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A glimpse into my research between Bayesian Optimization and Mechanics
Lecture
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How to improve interdisciplinary cooperation within Leiden University?
Conference
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Elephants in the Room
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Fariba Karimi
Lecture
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Learning by doing – a practical approach to integrate ethical and societal tools in quantum-innovation
Lecture
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Liveable Planet Lunch Lecture: ‘If you want to travel far, go together’: transdisciplinary collaboration for a Liveable Planet - Laurens Hessels
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Politics of Attention for the Environment: Small Steps and Big Leaps.
Lecture
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Medical Delta professor Andrew Webb: ‘In The Netherlands, people are much more open to cooperation’
Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI techniques that offer new opportunities in both developed and developing countries. Webb is a professor at the Radiology Department of the LUMC and,…
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities
The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversity in society. This is according to data from Statistics Netherlands.
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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‘A culture of dignity and respect takes constant work and attention’
As staff, we can help every day to create a culture of dignity and respect, says HR specialist Bregje Speet. ‘It boils down to the question of how to treat each other normally. And what we consider normal to be.’
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Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Jessica Kiefte-De Jong (LUMC) and Paul Behrens (FWN) on Food & Sustainability - Discussion
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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What is happening in Yemen?
Debate
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Ágnes Backhausz
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Understanding public opposition to infrastructure and energy projects
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - The value of conflict in sustainability transitions
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Porosity in Port City Territories
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Sustainable Insurance
Lecture
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture