How do journalists act as watchdogs of science? New qualitative research led by University of Amsterdam media scholar Alice Fleerackers sheds light on the labour intensive nature of watchdog science journalism, a ...

What if the greatest limitation of Black cinema is not a lack of representation, but the enduring influence of Hollywood itself? According to filmmaker and researcher Skinner Myers, a large part of contemporary Black ...

The Master's course How Music Works: Inside the Musical Mind by Makiko Sadakata is the winner of the Humanities Education Award 2026. Drawing on cognitive science, the course explores how music is perceived, ...

The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to philosopher of language Maria Aloni of the UvA and haematologist Arnon Kater of Amsterdam UMC. Aloni studies how cognitive biases shape ...