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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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She witnessed the Uyghur genocide first-hand: ‘I will never forget the eyes of the prisoners’
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Time for security to stand down: Leiden’s ‘War on Terror’ is based on delusions
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How one Arabic-speaking man sent university security into a panic: ‘Something is brewing’
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The Board ‘is working themselves to the bone behind the scenes’
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“We shall overcome!” Why I’ll be bringing my guitar to class from now on
To avoid having to talk only about history, William Michael Schmidli brought his guitar to the lecture hall. Song by song, he wants to show his students why the humanities are essential right now.
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High thresholds for wheelchair users: ‘I don’t feel welcome’
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Why it is ‘understandable’ that Hofman cannot be dismissed despite misconduct
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Why smart sex robots are far from harmless: ‘They normalise violence against women’
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This professor no longer feels safe (and is leaving the university)

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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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Psychologists work from home to avoid mice
Researchers and lecturers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences are fed up with the mice infestation in their offices. The clinical psychology department has been hit particularly hard. ‘On several occasions, they have raced past my feet.’
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Student protest at Pride despite ban: ‘The university is guilty of pinkwashing’
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University suspends exchanges with Israeli universities
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No forced redundancies at the Faculty of Humanities: ‘Larger reserve than expected’
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Committee on Israel to issue advice on collaborations only after the summer break