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How 25 crosses led to 14 life sentences: statistician rallies against another 'miscarriage of justice'
British nurse Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering seven babies. It is only after that judgment that Leiden statistician Richard Gill – who previously helped acquit two wrongly convicted nurses – is allowed to explain why this case is another ‘miscarriage of justice’ due to ‘statistical blunders’.
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Hofman case: Archaeologists’ freedom of informtion request unjustly rejected, say experts
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Women still have to behave like men
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Counter-expertise on Hofman case: no breach of academic integrity found
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University deploys plain-clothes security: ‘Psst... there’s an undercover guard behind you’
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Refugees in Leiden learn to live from day to day: ‘A bomb could be dropped on you at any moment’
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Suddenly there are access checks everywhere, but how strict are they?
The misconduct within archaeology is structural
Devastating report: how archaeologist couple got away with misconduct, intimidation, alcohol abuse and theft

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Trouble in teacher’s tent: misconduct beyond the Hofman affair
Is the work environment at archaeology ‘unhealthy’, as the investigating committee recently concluded? Mare spoke with several female archaeologists. ‘With one lecturer, you have to be careful if you wear a short skirt, another steals your data, and a third will shout at you angrily.’
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Evil at the Kunsthal: ‘The devil made me jump’
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Female archaeologists wonder: is there really systemic sexism within our faculty?
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Rowing until you have blisters to pay for new hair piece
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Lectures in the hallway? Seriously? Foolish new designs will wreck our academic community

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The misconduct within archaeology is structural
Her reign of terror has been rightly condemned, but the dismissed professor of archaeology Corinne Hofman is certainly not the only one who is guilty of misconduct, writes a Leiden archaeologist. Misconduct has entrenched itself in the field and especially men act with impunity.
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Reimagining Dutch agriculture: What if we all go vegan?
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What Tinder can learn from Orang-utans
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How children find food in the Congolese jungle
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Tagging along with the climate activists of Extinction Rebellion

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Someone with bad intentions can also register
Does the university’s Security Department keep ‘blacklists’ of risk groups or not? And why are external visitors required to register for meetings?
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Too many PhDs and lecturers doing unpaid work
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Council approves: vice-rector may remain
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The siege of Leiden (and The Hague)
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Students at ‘walkout’ say they are ‘ready to do what they have to do’