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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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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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This professor no longer feels safe (and is leaving the university)
After almost seven years, Professor Tahir Abbas has handed in his resignation, partly because he no longer felt safe expressing himself at Leiden University. ‘When I walk into the faculty, it feels like I have a target on my back.’
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Sudden freeze of Psychology staff’s saved research funds: ‘I had saved up €25,000’
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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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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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No forced redundancies at the Faculty of Humanities: ‘Larger reserve than expected’
Staff at the Faculty of Humanities can breathe a sigh of relief: the prospect of redundancies is off the table now that the faculty is in better financial shape than expected. Nevertheless, 150 FTE will be cut over the next five years. ‘We’re not out of financial trouble yet.’
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Committee on Israel to issue advice on collaborations only after the summer break
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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)