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Politics professor after 45 tweets: »Anyone who sees the video clip will think I am an idiot«

For six long months Ole Wæver has been confronted with his misinterpretations of the war in Ukraine. Last Sunday it just got too much for the top political scientist. He responded with a 45-tweet monologue.

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Science

Trine Dahl-Jensen has Danish geophysicist Inge Lehmann as role model

There are still significantly fewer women at the top of Danish research than men. And if we go back in history, there were even fewer women. But they were there. And they are of great importance to the star scientists of today. We met up with seismologist Trine Dahl-Jensen, who talks about her role model Inge Lehmann.

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Politics

Diversity courses, pronouns, and critical race theory. Inside a 'woke' US university

Some Danish politicians fear that universities will end up being as ‘woke’ as those in the United States. But what is really happening at US universities right now?

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Science

Physicists criticise University of Copenhagen’s new NATO ties

The Niels Bohr Institute's collaboration with NATO was a top-down decision and it threatens the university's research independence. Five of the department’s researchers now take a stand against the partnership.

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Science

UCPH social sciences: 41 per cent of staff do not have confidence in their dean

New workplace assessment shows a major decrease in trust in the Office of the Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Employees speak of a poor working environment, and several researchers have left the Department of Political Science because of poor management.

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Science

How to stay young: Tips from the science of ageing

The worst thing you can do for your health is to grow old. But if you do grow old, and still want to stay healthy, you can do a few things that will help. Ageing researcher Morten Scheibye-Knudsen who offers us his best life hacks.

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Science

Scientists want commission to investigate research freedom

Hundredevis af forskere har fået nok. De vil have danske politikere til at nedsætte en kommission, der skal kulegrave forskningsfriheden. Nu ruller de en landsdækkende underskriftsindsamling ud.

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Science

Danish Press Council to assess controversial science programme

Professor Peter C. Kjærgaard describes how the deception continued after the interview. Public service broadcaster DR rejects the criticism.

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Campus

Recycled dean: »We must keep up the fighting spirit«

She inherited the Faculty of Humanities when her predecessor quit. With her one hand she has to restore trust within the faculty. With the other she has to cut 300 student places. What on earth does the dean Kirsten Busch Nielsen actually intend to do?

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International

He is a disinformation expert. But he has family that does not believe Kyiv is being bombed

It has been pretty hectic for the Danish-Ukrainian researcher on disinformation Yevgeniy Golovchenko since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On top of following the war, and offering his insight as an expert, he has had family members who have been the object of disinformation, and friends in Kyiv who have been on the verge of taking up arms.

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