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Shift in scientific consensus about demise of Neanderthals
It is still unclear how the Neanderthals died out. For long, one theory seemed most likely: the emergence of the highly intelligent Homo sapiens, or modern humans. This competition hypothesis is no longer the dominant theory among scientists, research among archaeologists and anthropologists has shown.…
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Opinion: AI is taking over our jobs – or is the reality more nuanced?
Following the news that TomTom is cutting 300 jobs due to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), FGGA researchers Friso Selten and Alex Ingrams responded with opinion pieces. They place the news in a broader context and call for a more nuanced debate on AI and job losses.
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Posting preprints: ‘There is no reason not to’
Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been peer reviewed? Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and keen preprint poster Ludo Waltman explains.
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Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’
Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psychology. Their aim: giving the subject a more prominent position in the academic’s mind.
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'
Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'Canon of the Dutch Underexposed Past', which…
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Connect & Visualise: Data journeys in popular science
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Poprhyrin-based metal-organic frameworks for the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction
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Doorbreking van rechtsmiddelenverboden
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Cognitive Mechanism of Conformity
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Instrumentos musicais nas línguas bantu e a herança no português do Brasil
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Efficient Constraint Multi-Objective Optimization with Applications in Ship Design
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Chirurgijns in den vreemde. De geneeskundige zorg van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) voor haar personeel in Azië
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Quantifying nucleosome dynamicsand protein binding with PIE-FCCS and spFRET
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Understanding the Drivers of Voluntary Accountability by European Union Agencies: Look to the Forum!
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Proton transport through non-covalently functionalized graphene
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Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic
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Modelling the role of mycorrhizal associations in soil carbon cycling
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Decision-making in multiple-public-goods problems: Implications for cooperation and conflict within and between groups
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Fostering Curiosity Through Video Games
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Vulnerable Yet Resilient: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Prose
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Spice War: Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands (c. 1600-1656)
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Beyond the Dichotomy between Migrant Smuggling and Human Trafficking
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The Oligarchy in China: A Case Study of China’s Electricity Industry, 1978-2013
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The European Precariat: The Protection of Precarious Workers in the European Union
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Democratie, deugden docentschap
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Workplace and Community
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Combatting tax avoidance, the OECD way? The impact of the BEPS Project on developing and emerging countries’ approach to international tax avoidance
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The ascending arousal system and its impact on cognition
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Sincerely Believing in Freedom
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Capital humano femenino en la minería chilena: asociaciones público- privadas, responsabilidad social empresarial y género
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The pre-Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon
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Graphene transmembrane nanofluidic devices: Fabrication strategies and ion transport
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Aspects of the Analysis of Cell Imagery: from Shape to Understanding
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From Hunter-Gathering to Food Production: Isotopic insights on human diet from the Later Stone Age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco
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Insights from scanning tunneling microscopy experiments into correlated electron systems
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Generating Freedom; Hegel's Conception of Political Order
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Formal Models of Software-defined Networks
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Intermittency and Number Expansions for Random Interval Maps
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Photocatalytic Approaches for Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Construction
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The lexico-semantic representation of words in the mental lexicon
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Resonating emotions: An embodied perspective on alterations in facial emotion processing in autism and social anxiety
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Engineering of antigen saving dissolving Microneedles for intradermal vaccine delivery
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Searching for a resolution of BSM puzzles at accelerators and in space
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Trading Responsibility: Navigating national burdens in a globalized world
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Stimulering en facilitering van burgerinitiatieven door de overheid
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Forever Young: How AHL15 delays developmental phase transitions to prevent ageing in plants
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Rechtsverwerking en klachtplichten in het verbintenissenrecht
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Becoming and Belonging?
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