Young Academy Leiden
Newsletter - March 2025 |
The sun is back, finally!
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May 19th: Book club: The Slow Professor
Feelin g rushed at the start of this new semester (as usual)? Do you wish you had more time to think - and sometimes wonder if thinking wasn't the reason you became a scientist?
Join the Young Academy Leiden for a book club on The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy (Berg & Seeber, 2016). This short book explains why academia feels so frantic, and presents ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. A must-read for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life. |
New blog post: Funding the Humanities is crucial for Science and Society
The humanities at Leiden University are in danger. The Faculty is facing severe budget cuts, with the additional negative effects of measures by the current government still uncertain.
Five YAL members explain why the Humanities are essential for their research at other faculties. |
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Summer School in Science Communication
Want to share your research more widely and strengthen your communication skills? Join the Science Communication Summer School (7-11 July 2025) and learn to connect effectively with society! The summer school is open to all researchers, from PhD students to senior researchers, who still know little about science communication. |
Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition 2025
This Summer School will equip a diverse cohort of early career researchers (trainees through to junior faculty members) with the ability to understand, program, and interpret the output of a range of computational models of social cognition (e.g., reinforcement learning models, evidence accumulation models, Bayesian inference models) and their potential interaction with other modalities of measurements (e.g., fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking). |
Workshop, May 12th: Openness, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in academia
The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with know-how to make their research, research support, or events (such as presentations, training, engagement activities) more open, participatory, and inclusive in the broadest sense of the word. |
Call: Una Europa Seed Funding
 Secure up to €40.000 to kick-start interdisciplinary collaboration!
The Una Europa Seed Funding Call 2025 welcomes proposals in education, research and innovation, and societal impact inspired by Una Europa's Focus Areas. |
Call: Lowlands Science
Fancy spending three days collecting research data at a festival with over 65,000 potential research participants? And do you have an original research idea? Submit your proposal for Lowlands Science by 27 March 2025! |
YALumnus Anouk Goemans sets up LUF Children's Fund
For one year, Leiden University Fund will support research projects by Leiden scientists aimed at creating a better future for vulnerable children.
You can help give vulnerable children a better future. Donate to LUF Children's Fund and choose a project to support.
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