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Student protest at Pride despite ban: ‘The university is guilty of pinkwashing’
Students protesting police violence from the university boat during Pride were blocked by fellow passengers. The riot resulted in the resignation of the chair of the university’s LGBT+ network. ‘Silencing students goes against everything I teach.’
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Why smart sex robots are far from harmless: ‘They normalise violence against women’
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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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One photon in a sea of ​​darkness: how quantum is in the eye of the beholder
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This professor no longer feels safe (and is leaving the university)
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Sudden freeze of Psychology staff’s saved research funds: ‘I had saved up €25,000’
How child pornography spreads across the dark web (and perpetrators find each other)
Wijnhaven occupied once again – this time, five demonstrators lost consciousness

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Sudden freeze of Psychology staff’s saved research funds: ‘I had saved up €25,000’
To fill a gap in the budget, the Institute of Psychology took a draconian measure: it froze researchers’ so-called ‘earned funds’. This has led to considerable frustration and uncertainty. ‘My research has been at a standstill for months.’
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Don’t use us as an excuse for repression, say arrested Jewish students
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‘Our backs are against the wall’, says the Board about 30 million in cuts
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Trump’s war on academics: has the fallout already reached Leiden?
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We can’t let this happen here: the lessons of Trump for Dutch higher education

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The history of the alphabet isn’t carved into stone
The alphabet might be centuries older than was previously thought. Willemijn Waal is launching an academic attack on the theory that there was an “alphabetic big bang” around 800 BC. “It must have been introduced much earlier.”
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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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What makes the first drawn bee brain so special?

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Committee on Israel to issue advice on collaborations only after the summer break
The committee investigating ties with Israeli institutions will issue advice on student exchanges with Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem in mid-July. Advice on other collaborations will follow ‘at a later stage’.
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Executive Board president Annetje Ottow to leave early
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Wijnhaven occupied once again – this time, five demonstrators lost consciousness
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Minister not yet willing to scrap language test (despite universities’ hopes)
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After all the commotion over scrapped programmes, only two masters still face the axe