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Science is fine without women
After a couple of days back at work I got the first Faculty of Science newsletter of the year in my mailbox. One announcement caught my eye: “These scientists will lead the Science strategic research themes”, themes that are meant to connect between different disciplines and to increase our faculty’s global visibility. I read it and then read it again. I was not the only one that noticed: These leaders are all men.
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University lecturer: Childcare facility De Kattekop is not peripheral to the university’s mission
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China could set the region ablaze
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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’
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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
In the wake of blind panic over a single lost stranger, the university implemented a strict security regime that remains in place to this day. Now that this blunder has finally been acknowledged after two years, there is only one logical next step: to scale back the measures.
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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
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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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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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How one Arabic-speaking man sent university security into a panic: ‘Something is brewing’
Why was the Wijnhaven building closed two years ago and why has university security been tightened since? Newly released documents under the Open Government Act (WOO) reveal that the police and the university have completely different views on threats.
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Psychologists work from home to avoid mice
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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’