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Stories from women in physics: ‘I want to understand how the world works’
For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, women students and researchers from physics talk about what inspires them about their work. From quantum to cosmology and biophysics, their curiosity about how nature works is what connects these women. What do these 5 scientists want to share…
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Ieke de Vries: 'We're expecting too much from minors and young adults if we think they can protect themselves from sexual exploitation.’
What starts off gently may end dramatically. Many young people these days fall victim to sexual exploitation. How can we prevent this suffering? Ieke de Vries points to the living environment of (potential) victims.
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Ghost in the machine: the deep features of Yanming Guo
In the 1960s at MIT, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky told a couple of graduate students to program a computer to perform the simple task of recognising objects in pictures, thinking it would be a nice summer project. Scientists from Leiden and the rest of the world are still working on it today.
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The James Webb Telescope takes stunning photos. But what exactly are we looking at?
For over a year now, the James Webb Telescope has been sending stunning images that exceed astronomers’ expectations. The photos are fascinating to see, but what exactly are we looking at? Assistant professor Melissa McClure explains.
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Preserving Bonaire’s Heritage: The Proteha mi Project
The
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The LAPP in the High Level Debate ‘Can The Blue Economy Save Our Ocean?’ in the European Parliament
On Wednesday 16th of May, 2018, two student researchers of the LAPP, Hanna Leisti and Heidi Kaarto, had an opportunity to take part in the High Level Debate ‘Can the Blue Economy Save Our Ocean?’. The event was organised by the Sky and WWF in the premises of the European Parliament in Brussels with…
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Tazuko van Berkel new member The Young Academy
The Young Academy has gained a new Leiden humanities scholar as a member. University lecturer Greek language and literature Tazuko van Berkel will be appointed as a member as of March.
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our modern 24-hour society. The BioClock consortium will receive a research grant of no less than 9.7 million euros for this. It is one of the projects that receive…
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Call for Papers: 'Matrilineal Kerala: Investigations across Borders'
In collaboration with: Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands & Mar Chrysostom Chair, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows
Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, have a smaller positive effect than previously thought. Amatuni advises people to ‘pay attention to actual changes in their consumption behaviour rather…
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Academic freedom is at risk – what steps can we take to defend it?
At the annual research day (‘toogdag’) of the research programme Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Pluralist World (EPFR), researchers reflected on the growing threats scholars face due to political repression, conflict or displacement, and how to protect them.
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New Year's Reception 2025: the power of diversity and collaboration
‘Let us not forget the power of genuine engagement,’ dean Sarah de Rijcke stressed at the New Year's Reception on 7 January 2025, which was also attended by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and addressed the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Understanding human migrations requires a long-term perspective
Lecture
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Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu southern Africa through lexical borrowing
Lecture, Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology
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Social Context Matters: Researching Crime Across Countries, Across Cultures
KITLV&VVI Research Talk
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Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955)
Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar
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Malayic varieties of Kelantan and Terengganu
PhD defence
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CBI Lecture: Chemical Probes for Precision Medicine
Lecture
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Tsuvadi Gender: A mixed form- and semantic-based system
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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[CANCELLED] A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence
Lecture, CHiLL series
- Language and the human past
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A dynamic interaction between morphosyntactic structure and constituent size on prosodic domain formation and marking – evidence from Shaoxing
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
Lecture, China Seminar
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress by Isak Nilsson
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Associated Motion in East Asian Languages, with a focus on Chinese and Japanese
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Isoglosses and Diffusion
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop Series
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Reedijk Symposium 2024: Assembling fluorescent dyes into molecular and nano-probes for biosensing and bioimaging
Lecture
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Studium Generale
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CANCELLED - Intonational rises and attention orienting
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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TLS in Practice: TLS and Research Topics
Lecture
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LUCDH Workshop: An Introduction to Large Language Models in the Humanities
Lecture
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The X Factor: Open Access, New Journals, and Incumbent Competitors
Seminar
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Van Marum Colloquium: Tale of Two Beamers: results from recent improvements in two molecular beam scattering instruments
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Organoids to model human health and disease in vitro
Lecture
- Van Marum Colloquium: Ultrafast electrochemistry beyond the RC time constant
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Are nanoplastics dangerous to your health?
Lecture, NGL lecture
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Social Science Matters: How should we discuss terrorism in our schools?
As schools in the U.S., students have to enter through security gates; schools in Belgium were forced to remain closed for several days after the attacks there; and even in the Netherlands various bomb scares have led to children having to stay at home. And yet fear of terrorism remains a difficult…
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. While the earliest examples of computational thinking can be traced back to the 13th century, according to Holger Hoos, Leiden Professor of Machine Learning,…
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This award offers promising young scientists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’
Dick Schoof kan ook wel de buurman van de Haagse faculteit worden genoemd. Vooral vanuit zijn rol bij de NCTV werkte hij veel samen met de Universiteit Leiden en hielp hij onderwijs en onderzoek vooruit, vertelt hoogleraar Terrorisme en Contraterrorisme Edwin Bakker. ‘Voor een kritische vriend was altijd…
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Jeroen Wolbers on Capacity and Network Management Dilemmas during the Corona Crisis in The Netherlands
Decision makers are faced with dilemmas as result of the corona crisis. Dr. Jeroen Wolbers, Assistant Professor Crisis Governance at the Crisis Research Center explains the existing dilemmas and what makes the corona crisis unique when compared to other crises.
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Staying healthy with big data
By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Biosciences at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, explains how that works.