This is absolutely fantastic work by Sam de Regt, on whose coattails I am cheerfully sitting. He wrote a new pipeline for NACO data from scratch (pip install pippin) and ALL the images and data products are downloadable from Zenodo. Open science FTW!

The vast majority of the EU's agricultural subsidies go to livestock farming & producing animal feed. This is even though livestock & their food generate significant greenhouse gas emissions. Leiden environmental scientists reveal this in Nature Food universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Begrijpen we de oorsprong van het heelal? 🌌 In de Oortlezing vertelt professor George Efstathiou je over het Lambda Cold Dark Matter-model. Verwacht hij binnenkort een paradigmaverschuiving in de kosmologie? Kom ook op 6 mei om 20:00 uur. 👉 Meld je aan: medewerkers.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2024/05…

Nederland verliest plantensoorten die afhankelijk zijn van insecten. Milieuwetenschapper Kaixuan Pan zien komt met verontrustend nieuws voor onze #biodiversiteit en voedselzekerheid. ‘90% vd wilde planten is afhankelijk van insecten.’ NL Inst of Ecology universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/04…

By chance, computer scientist Hans-Dieter Hiep (Leiden University and CWI) discovered a ‘gaping hole’ in a widely used method for evaluating software security. He patched it (that was no easy task) and graduated cum laude on 23 May. universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Read how her research on chicken embryos sheds new light on how these tiny plastic particles pose a threat to our health: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Researchers in the Vrouwe Vennepolder are exploring sustainable farming. This interdisciplinary project aims to create future-proof agriculture. 🌾👣 ‘It’s interesting to find out whether this will work and what problems we’ll encounter.’ universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

‘Neem #wetenschapscommunicatie serieuzer.’ Die boodschap wil Ivo van Vulpen, bijzonder hoogleraar Wetenschapscommunicatie in de #natuurkunde, zijn vakgenoten graag meegeven tijdens zijn oratie. Nu kijken veel onderzoekers er nog op neer terwijl. universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/06…

Excited to share that our latest findings on #polyester #degradation by #Streptomyces #BHETase enzyme variants is published in Communications Biology. Excellent and tenacious study by Jo-Anne Verschoor, with thank you's to all coauthors. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Some bacteria have proteins much like ours that organise their DNA. Biochemists from Remus T. Dame & the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen reveal this in a new paper. Their work helps us better understand evolution & how bacteria organise their DNA. Read: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0… Vikram Alva Samuel Schwab

From everything I've seen we really don't need to worry much about the health impacts of plant-based ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Some of the reporting on them last week was very poor. Here is a good reaction from scientists: sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio… To add a little more... 🧵

De aangekondigde bezuinigingen op de wetenschap hebben forse impact op ons onderzoek. Zonder ons onderzoek geen voortgang in AI, quantum, duurzaamheid, biodiversiteit en de ontdekking van geneesmiddelen. Dat mogen we niet laten gebeuren. @universiteitenvanned #hoofdlijnenakkoord

LED3’s first PhD/Postdoc symposium was a big success!🎉 Researchers from different Leiden Science institutes presented their interdisciplinary research on Early Drug Discovery. Read more about the collaboration: universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/led3 #LED3Symposium

The researchers at the Polderlab in Oud Ade are using the newly installed 'Moon landers' to measure whether innovative forms of agriculture reduce greenhouse gas emissions 🌱🌍 universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Kunnen we duurzame, circulaire brandstof maken? Onze onderzoekers en technici werken hand in hand om dit te realiseren! Felix Smits van het Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) werkte samen met de Fijnmechanische Dienst aan een heel bijzonder project.🙏 Lees nu meer 👉universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2024/06…

Wij steunen onze medewerkers die in actie komen!

Happy to announce that our group has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. With this grant we will further explore the therapeutic potential of new lipopetide antibiotics developed in our labs. European Research Council (ERC) erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

Economic growth should not be the sole focus of European policy. In a paper, researchers, including well-being economist Rutger Hoekstra suggest how the next European Commission can develop an alternative policy model that centres people’s well-being. universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

10 days until #CLIN34! The 34th edition of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, held at Universiteit Leiden this year. We present the program on clin34.leidenuniv.nl Registration is still possible!

Don't miss out on the lecture by the Heineken Award Winners by Prof. Matthias Mann (Max Planck Institute), Prof. Ruedi Aebersold (ETH Zurich). universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024…