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The wild walking podcast is a podcast to listen to during a walk of about half an hour. Put on your headphones, and your walking shoes, and hit the road with botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters.

The number of experiments conducten on animals at Utrechtľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and the UMC Utrecht rose from 19.078 to 20.433 in 2020.

In the Washington Post, Ingrid Robeyns argues that it is morally impermissible to own more resources than needed to flourish in life.

A European research cluster of scientists, industry and policy makers will investigate the effect of microplastics in the human body.

Feral cats that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were infected by mink and not by humans. This has been shown in recent research by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research.

Iva Vukusic spoke to different media outlets about Mladic' conviction and the aftermath of the war.

Diana Willemijn Helmich examines (the increase of) domestic violence in the Netherlands during COVID-19.

The 3rd and 4th of June marked the official launch of the new MOMENTUM consortium. The launch began with a two-day online kick-off meeting brought all 28 partners together to get to know one another better and to define the plans for the coming period.

[Blog] How manuscripts let you travel in pandemic times.

The least surprising news of the week from Syria is that Bashar al-Assad has won another seven-year term, says Ali Aljasem in an article for The Conversation.

The volume “Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories“, edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter van der Veer, has been published in an Open Access-version.

Diana Willemijn Helmich and Emma Post question the way in which the media have written about women leaders' successful handling of the pandemic.

A so-called Google Air View Car, fitted with advanced air quality equipment by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, measured the air quality on every single street in Copenhagen several times during a period of two years. After six million measurements, the Project Air View team, shared the final map.

Britta Schilliing, Selin Dilli and Lukas Verburgt will become members of the NIAS fellows, a select community of independent thinkers.

Blog by Jos Philips on an online workshop where researchers from Poznan and Utrecht discussed several perspectives on refugees and religious tolerance in Europe.

The Exposome-Scan project, that builds on Exposome-NL and X-omics, has been awarded 3.2 million euros from the NWO Investment Grant Large programme. With the grant the researchers will build a unique and large-scale open facility for research into the so-called exposome.

The program encourages young researchers to enter into or develop interdisciplinary collaborations in order to achieve new fundamental research insights.

De Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung has awarded a fellowship to Reindert Dhondt.

This month, a research project about the Lausanne Conference was launched, with Ozan Ozavci as one of its convenors.

The conditions for changing the gender statement in the birth certificate will be relaxed and the procedure simplified, Minister Dekker proposes.

Bloomsbury published 'A Cultural History of Color', of which the volume on the Renaissance was edited by Sven Dupré.

With funding from the Netherlands Film Fund, humanities scholars from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� aim to make the Dutch film industry more sustainable.

On Sunday 2 May, dr. Janneke Raaijmakers passed away.

Blog by Guanqin He about the international conference Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday.

Judith Kas, Rense Corten and Arnout van de Rijt published about the role of reputation systems in digital discrimination.