In the media
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All episodes of Breingeheim now available on Spotify 01 February 2023All five episodes of the first season of 'Breingeheim' are now available to listen on Spotify. The first season of the podcastseries is about the soci...
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Professor Bleda Düring interviewed for podcast Tides of History 13 January 2023The Tides of History is a history podcast that takes listeners into the past while trying to identify how it echoes today. The current season centers ...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Podcast on resilience gives a boost to worrying youths 19 December 2022What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘...
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Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina interviewed for podcast Hortus Amsterdam 29 August 2022The Hortus Talks is a podcast series as well as a botanical college tour, recorded in the greenhouse in the middle of the Hortus Amsterdam. The theme ...
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Blogging about the Research and Management of the Tollense Battlefield 18 August 2022The battle at the Tollense valley took place in 1300 BC, the Bronze age. The archaeological site now is being threatened by climate chance. In an inte...
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry in podcast on dental care in the past 25 May 2022In the first instalment of the three-part podcast series Óf Bones, Brains, and Pink Elephants, three students of Utrecht University interview Dr Amand...
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Archaeological explorations in Jordan unveil traces of ancient caravan routes 18 May 2022Systematic aerial surveys carried out in Jordan’s Eastern Badia region since 1998 and about 10 years of simplified satellite image analysis have led t...
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Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn lectures at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 29 March 2022During her lecture, Professor Annelou van Gijn explored user-wear analysis and experimental archaeology, showing details about past human life.
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Alex Brandsen and Bjørn Peare Bartholdy interviewed on Digital Scholarship Blog 29 March 2022The Leiden Digital Scholarship Blog explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go ab...
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Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools 29 March 2022If you’ve written a scientific manuscript, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the app-switching two-step that happens when you copy your data ...
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How did we discover fire? 02 March 2022Controlling fire was a turning point in the development of human civilisation. But how did fire become part of the human toolkit? The BBC radio show C...
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Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago 15 December 2021Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden Uni...
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Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp in Discover Magazine on Neanderthal extinction 15 December 2021Scientists have long assumed Neanderthals simply lost the evolutionary race against humans. But their disappearance may be a bit more complex. In Disc...
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New book shows impact of coronavirus on Leiden 06 September 2021Tuesday 7 September sees the release of the book ‘Plots stond het Leidse leven stil’ by Charlotte Boin, a freelance writer from Leiden. This book of i...