Broadening your network, meeting familiar faces or getting to see that excellent lecturer again:

these are just some of the reasons why alumni of Leiden University came to the alumni event in
Mexico City on 23 October.
 

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Tremendous amounts of data are generated in scientific research every day.
Most of this data has more potential than we are currently using, says Katy Wolstencroft, assistant professor in bioinformatics and computer science.

We just need to integrate and manage it better.
 

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An anthropologist studying these farmers should not only look at the farmers themselves, but should in particular learn how they see the world.

This is what Cristina Grasseni, the new Professor of Anthropology contends. Inaugural address today, 30 October.
 

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The sand on European beaches may look pristine, but in every kilogram of sand there are on average 250 microplastics: fragments smaller than 5mm.

These results are part of a study from Leiden researchers with the help of beach-goers throughout Europe.
 

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A poor woman from Java plucks three cocoa fruits from a plantation, to use as seedlings. The judge convicts her of theft, but she is not sent to prison.

This is one of the examples of legal differentiation  that Adriaan Bedner, Professor of Law and Society, wants to examine in Indonesie

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