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A few decades ago, the lower Yavero Valley of the Southern Peruvian Amazon was densely forested and inhabited mostly by Indigenous Matsigenka people. These people lived mostly from hunting, fishing, foraging, and gardening. But since then, roads have been...

“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” said Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, ahead of the June 2025 The Hague summit, where European NATO members pledged to raise their military spending to 5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

^{It’s that time of year again in Leeuwarden. The rain has stopped (for now), the sky is blue, and while our plates are full with end of the year obligations, our thoughts turn already to the summer and beyond.}

^{Between Grou and Jirnsum, a small farm is rethinking what food systems can look like. The vegetables grown there do not travel far. In fact, some of them end up just a short drive away, at Campus Fryslân, where students and staff pick them up each week as...}

^{Every year on March 8, the world marks International Women's Day: a day to celebrate the achievements of women and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggle for equality. It is a day of pride, gratitude, and solidarity. But it is also a day of honesty....}

^{Carol is an ecologist from Colombia and an assistant professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Campus Fryslân. Her expertise lies in the use of spatial tools to understand ecological dynamics, as well as in science and technology studies (STS)...}

_{Knowledge infrastructures matter and actively contribute to shaping the futures we are able to imagine and realise. These ideas are explored in depth in the new book Revealing Relations: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable Futures by Anne Beaulieu,...}

_{If someone asked you to fill the gap in the sentence "Data is...", what would your answer be? What is data, really, and what happens when data meets creativity, activism, and bold new ideas? The CEST-LA-VIZ conference in Utrecht on November 15, 2024, set...}

_{Voice AI transforms spoken words into digital actions. When you ask Siri about the weather or tell ChatGPT to write a story, you're using AI systems that can understand speech, process language, and respond in a human-like voice. But how do these digital...}

_{In this blog post, we kick off the new Research Digest series, where our faculty academics introduce us to their research topics and the broader societal questions they address. This week, Dr. Dario Rodighiero presents the Weather Map, a method for...}