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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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Don’t use us as an excuse for repression, say arrested Jewish students
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Sudden freeze of Psychology staff’s saved research funds: ‘I had saved up €25,000’
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Executive Board president Annetje Ottow to leave early
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The history of the alphabet isn’t carved into stone
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Wijnhaven occupied once again – this time, five demonstrators lost consciousness
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How child pornography spreads across the dark web (and perpetrators find each other)
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‘Our backs are against the wall’, says the Board about 30 million in cuts
By abolishing the international bachelor’s programme in Psychology, the Leiden University Executive Board hopes to avert the Balanced Internationalisation Act. ‘We have to choose between several evils.’
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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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Honorary Doctor Eliot Higgins has faith in the new generation: ‘Only critical thinking can save democracy’
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Don't let Urban Studies become the next victim of budget cuts

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Expedition Singelpark: Leiden’s Ring of Biodiversity
The marvellous variety of life isn’t just found in rainforests and coral reefs – it’s right below your feet. Maaike de Voogd, a biologist from the Taxon Foundation, explains how Leiden’s Singelpark became an unexpected hotspot for species discovery.
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A beating heart in a dish: how scientists create heart cells from stem cells
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Hanging out with beer, biology and a quiz
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What makes the first drawn bee brain so special?
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Honorary Doctor Bonnie Honig fights against Trump: ‘We are being governed by rapists’

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Minister not yet willing to scrap language test (despite universities’ hopes)
Despite a call from Dutch universities, Education Minister Bruins is not yet willing to scrap the Test for Foreign Language Education (TAO) from the Balanced Internationalisation Bill (WIB). ‘That would mean surrendering my means to exert any form of control over the objectives.’
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Controversial film sparks protest: ‘Those “poor Russian boys” killed my friends’
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After all the commotion over scrapped programmes, only two masters still face the axe
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Departing dean Mark Rutgers leaves faculty in crisis: ‘I had sleepless nights’
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‘Let us remain independent’: Chairs of at-risk Humanities programmes write counter-proposal