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We can’t let this happen here: the lessons of Trump for Dutch higher education
While American academics are under fire by the Trump administration there are valuable lessons to be learned for Dutch universities, argues William Michael Schmidli.
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Trump’s war on academics: has the fallout already reached Leiden?
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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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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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Honorary Doctor Eliot Higgins has faith in the new generation: ‘Only critical thinking can save democracy’
Eliot Higgins is the founder of the investigative journalism firm Bellingcat, which has uncovered major war crimes. Last Friday, he received an honorary doctorate. ‘Whether I look at it or not: all those terrible things are happening.’
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Humanities overhaul: African Studies to be axed, language and Asian programmes to merge
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University Council opposed reappointment of Annetje Ottow following ‘worrying signals from the workplace’

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Anyone interested in learning more about queer behavior in nature and gender-swapping shrimp can attend Biology on Tap's pub lectures
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Honorary Doctor Bonnie Honig fights against Trump: ‘We are being governed by rapists’
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Departing dean Mark Rutgers leaves faculty in crisis: ‘I had sleepless nights’
With fewer staff, fewer chairs and fewer specialists, the Faculty of Humanities will ‘plummet in all the rankings’, fears departing dean Mark Rutgers. ‘The future of academia looks bleak.’
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‘Let us remain independent’: Chairs of at-risk Humanities programmes write counter-proposal
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University forced back to basics by budget cuts: ‘The prospects are very grim’
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Students are fed up with strict security measures: ‘If nothing changes, we’ll occupy again’
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Interim decision Hofman case: misconduct and integrity violations ‘sufficiently plausible’