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Bas InSite is like a black hole where invoices disappear. ‘The whole system is straining at the seams’
There are major problems with the Bas InSite administration system. Users ‘hop from one error message to the next’, see ‘expense claims disappearing into black holes’ and are finding debt collection agencies on their doorstep due to non-payment. ‘It breaks my heart that this is bringing colleagues to tears.’
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‘Extremely undesirable’ mould and fungi in the Herta Mohr building
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At the knitting cinema, the clicking of needles pauses only during sex scenes
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It is not women who need to change, but the system
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Tobias hopped on the Flixbus to Kyiv and filmed students taking shelter, firing weapons and making bombs
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Board president Sels fights a ‘humanities apocalypse’ at Dies celebration
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She witnessed the Uyghur genocide first-hand: ‘I will never forget the eyes of the prisoners’

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Everything must change because of AI: ‘It’s very difficult to detect’
How do you test students’ knowledge now that they are increasingly using AI? Lecturers from the Faculty of Humanities discussed this topic during a symposium. ‘I’ve had students in my tutorials who don’t even know where the library is.’
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‘Time to start taxing the super-rich more’, says French economist Gabriel Zucman
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Science is fine without women
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University lecturer: Childcare facility De Kattekop is not peripheral to the university’s mission
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China could set the region ablaze

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One photon in a sea of ​​darkness: how quantum is in the eye of the beholder
Physicists at Leiden’s Quantum Matter and Optics research group are testing the limits of perception with a simple question: can humans perceive a single photon?
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The history of the alphabet isn’t carved into stone
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Expedition Singelpark: Leiden’s Ring of Biodiversity
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A beating heart in a dish: how scientists create heart cells from stem cells
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University to scale back security at Wijnhaven, with checks limited to evenings
From January onwards, access checks at the Wijnhaven building will only take place in the evenings. The deployment of external security guards will also be scaled back and will be discontinued by March next year at the latest.
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USC sports instructors lose their jobs: ‘I don’t know if I want to keep exercising here’
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How one Arabic-speaking man sent university security into a panic: ‘Something is brewing’
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Psychologists work from home to avoid mice
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Student protest at Pride despite ban: ‘The university is guilty of pinkwashing’