#Leiden

January 3, 1944. Mr Diederix, head of the Leiden Labour Exchange leaves his office at the Doezastraat (see map (1)).In function since November 24, he has lived up to the
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As promised, some snapshots from attempts to decolonise IL Seminar 1: we discussed the ICJ's Lotus case on sovereignty via a feminist lens, w the rewritten judgment by C Chinkin,
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Today Leiden University (@UniLeiden) celebrates its 446 birthday (est. 1575 AD). Leiden is especially renowned for its dedication to teach and promote Arabic and Islamic studies. A thread on the
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A few thoughts from Haarlem, where on January 5, 1534 an Anabaptist baker named Jan Matthys decided that The Storm had come and it was time to launch the revolution
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Why we should keep talking about temporary contracts - a thread. 1/14https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MbJ5xWjJSUGVrjPEmrV55i5ByCJ4BOp1/view #casualleiden #staffshouldstay image by @dymphieselisa In 2005, 100 million euros of university budg
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It’s Christmas Eve, and what could be more festive than a thread about illustrations of dissections WITH DOGS IN THEM. So here we go... First of all is the cover
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Niet Trouw & Nieuwsuur waren de eersten die vragen stelden over NL steun terroristen. Dat was ik. Alleen de christelijke partijen in Kamer reageerden op mijn vragen. Ik publiceerde erover
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Or you could just, you know, have people start taking a baby aspirin and vitamin D3 every day.https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1326928504018128901 This is not medical advice, but anecdotally the aspirin, D3, z!nc combo
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To get a Master’s Degree or Not?For the motion:1. Ease of Immigration. 2. Need to remedy undergraduate grades.3. Minimum qualification in your chosen career is a Master’s Degree e.g. International
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Thread. The Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest1/6. In 1895, Mrs Lewis purchased a rare manuscript in Suez. It was a palimpsest: a Christian Arabic text from the 9th or 10th CE, written on
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Here's something new I learned today!Old Uyghur (not a direct ancestor of modern Uyghur) had a so-called anticipating counting system in which, from Erdal 2004,"First stated is the digit as
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I've been time tracking my academic work in Fall 2020 with @toggltrack and I finally crunched some numbers yesterday. It's been an interesting exercise.The most interesting point is how much
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Oxytocin is a super hormone. It floods through mothers during childbirth. It facilitates milk production and is passed on through breast milk. Eye contact between parents and babies creates an
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okay, starting my thread on Egyptian traditional clothing- all the images are from mueseums, online market listings, some books, and other places. I'll also mention some books and papers that
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The Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born #OTD in 1853. Here he is on the right next to an unidentified German scientist, probably one of his many admirers.Photo: Paul
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#Ocean #sunfishes are some of the most distinctive looking vertebrates, and #museums & #aquaria love to include them in their gallery displays. Here for example are a common mola and
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