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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.
Students at the University of Copenhagen are using ChatGPT and other AI tools for study, and for exams. We asked them how
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
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?
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.
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.
The University Post spoke to university director Søren Munk Skydsgaard about the reform to the administration at the University of Copenhagen, the hiring freeze, and upcoming layoffs.
A number of researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have signed a petition against a new, ironically phrased, campaign by the Danish intelligence agency PET. They deem the PET campaign to be racist, and to cast unnecessary suspicions on non-Danes. The intelligence agency responds that the threat to Danish research is »significant«.
