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Dean: We need to work »seriously and with dedication« on the Natural History Museum working environment

Exceptional action plan set in motion at the Natural History Museum of Denmark after toxic work environment stories

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Working environment

Former postdoc: Director of Natural History Museum abused his power

As a postdoc at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Paige Madison feels she was gaslighted, suppressed and micromanaged. This is her story.

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Academic life

TEST: Can you get around Frederiksberg Campus in a wheelchair?

Frederiksberg campus reminds you of one of those impossible M. C. Escher illusions: Many stairways, and many reasons to just give up.

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Science

Researcher: Disparity between research on women's and men's diseases

Medical doctor and postdoc Amani Meaidi spends all her waking hours working against one particular imbalance: The amount of research into men's and women's diseases. She is so obsessed with women-specific genes that she sometimes gets a stress rash on her hands.

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Student life

Is AI a good study buddy? We asked students

Students at the University of Copenhagen are using ChatGPT and other AI tools for study, and for exams. We asked them how

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International

More women leaders at the top on global universities ranking

Women are now – for the first time – at the very top of more than 25 per cent of the highest ranked universities on the Times ranking

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International

Two years of war: Daily life at the Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv

In Kyiv, there are fewer and fewer student faces at online lectures. The question is: How do you help young Ukrainians who have sought refuge abroad, without harming Ukraine's future?

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Working environment

26 employees: Toxic working environment at Natural History Museum

26 anonymous employees at the University of Copenhagen-affiliated unit testify to a psychologically stressful working environment. And the criticism is directed at museum director Peter C. Kjærgaard. According to the Dean, the University of Copenhagen cannot approve a working environment that is described in this way by the employees.

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Opinion

University of Copenhagen managers after campaign criticism: Spying threat should be taken seriously

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International

Two years of war: With each passing day, research in Ukraine gets weaker

The researchers who have not fled the war are publishing less — and worse — research. The University Post visited a faculty in Kyiv that has a lecture hall in a bomb shelter, a gallery on a wall showing the students who are at war, and a dean who tries to keep track of all the colleagues who have left.

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