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#BASISgate: an hour into the meeting, bullying behaviour still hasn’t been discussed
During the General Meeting of Members of the BASIS study association, many questions about the disrupted internal relations remained unanswered. ‘Did you or did you not bully Maya?’
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#BASISgate seems like a ‘never-ending conflict’: bullying continued even after report
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Advice on the ties with Israel at last: suspend and sever
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Breaking up with the treasurer? Prepare to be hounded out
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The fraudster is hiding in your pocket: how should the university deal with AI? (part 1)
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Facts about migration are being ignored, says Marlou Schrover. ‘I will keep pushing back’
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#BASISgate seems like a ‘never-ending conflict’: bullying continued even after report

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Mixed feelings about the war in Iran: ‘After the first attack, my cousin texted me heart emojis’
Iranian students and researchers in Leiden are deeply worried about family members who say they are actually pleased about the bombings. ‘If the regime doesn’t fall, my cousin will probably get the death penalty.’
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Luc Sels doesn’t want to be chief, but first among equals: ‘Low trust in the Board is a major concern’
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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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The taboo surrounding HIV infections in Indonesia mainly harms women: ‘You are a bad person’
During her fieldwork in Indonesia, researcher Najmah observed that the social stigma surrounding HIV infection is causing an unnecessarily high number of female victims. ‘Neighbours, friends and Instagram influencers dictate that you must be pious and deferential.’
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One photon in a sea of ​​darkness: how quantum is in the eye of the beholder
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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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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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Board president Sels fights a ‘humanities apocalypse’ at Dies celebration
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University to scale back security at Wijnhaven, with checks limited to evenings
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USC sports instructors lose their jobs: ‘I don’t know if I want to keep exercising here’