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Sweeping cutbacks at the University of Copenhagen’s #UCPH Faculty of Science are now hitting home. A large number of staff — both academic and technical-administrative staff — were laid off Thursday 20 November:
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Cutbacks begin: Layoffs hit the Faculty of Science
The round of cuts at the Faculty of Science lets go of more than 100 staff members in total. Union representative wonders why management didn’t act sooner.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Retreat rooms have been criticised for encouraging behavioural policing and gender segregation: Now #UCPH shuts them down, saying there will be new spaces for students with disabilities instead:
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University of Copenhagen management shuts down all retreat rooms
Retreat rooms are soon to be gone for good. Management is shutting down the controversial spaces so they can be incorporated into better facilities for students with disabilities.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Current SODAS PhD Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard recently got a gold medal from the Univeristy of Copenhagen for her Master thesis. She wrote about working from home: which professions benefit, and how employers talk about it in job ads.

Learn more about Sofie's thesis here: sodas.ku.dk/research/sof...
Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard gets gold medal for her thesis
SODAS PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard was awarded a KU gold medal for her master’s thesis. She completed her MSc in Social Data Science in January 2024. We talk to Sofie about the research behind h...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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One rainy morning recently, Elisenda Feliu stepped into an office after being summoned to a meeting. But instead of being greeted by the day’s agenda, colleagues surrounded her with cameras and congratulations. She had been awarded this year’s ‘Harald’:
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Recorded maths lectures on video — now she’s lecturer of the year
Elisenda Feliu teaches mathematics to biology students. Their initial resistance has been converted into results
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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CfP📢"Religious Embodiment and Conversion Practices in
Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800", The Saxo Institute
📆23–24 April 2026 |🌍University of Copenhagen
⏰Application deadline: 26 November 2025

#Earlymodern #ReligiousHistory #CfP
More info 👇
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Full text of the Student Council chair speech at the University of Copenhagen's #UCPH Commemoration 2025:
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Student Council speech at annual celebration: »Dear UCPH, when will you be worthy?«
Full text of the Student Council chair speech at the University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2025.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Honored to speak at Niels Bohr Institute event yesterday on nuclear threats. Great discussion with Frank von Hippel (image), @tongzhao.bsky.social, @russianforces.org, Rebecca Slayton.

A warm-up for the Open World Conference next 3 days at University of Copenhagen. openworld.ku.dk
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Full text of Rector David Dreyer Lassen's speech at the University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2025 #UCPH:
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Rector’s speech at the annual celebration: Europe’s future rests on its universities
Full text of Rector David Dreyer Lassen's speech at the University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2025.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Join us for a seminar with Dr. Christina Gravert from the University of Copenhagen at noon ET on Nov. 26 via Zoom. Dr. Gravert will be speaking about “Can Attention Overcome Consumer Inertia? Experimental Evidence from a Liberalized Market.” @cgravert.bsky.social chibe.upenn.edu/event/christ...
Christina Gravert, PhD│CHIBE Research Seminar - Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
Dr. Christina Gravert will be speaking to the CHIBE community virtually via Zoom from noon to 1:00 EST on Nov. 26, 2025.
chibe.upenn.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Chaos in the org chart, pressure on support staff, and a management that seems keen to keep a lid on things:
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IT support hit hard by UCPH administration shake-up
Chaos in the org chart, pressure on support staff, and a management that seems keen to keep a lid on things. Report from staff working in the University of Copenhagen's IT unit.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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@anaantic.bsky.social is taking part in the celebration of a 100 years of Frantz Fanon at @ucph.bsky.social on November 21st. Come and join us!
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Cuts to the Faculty of Science will lead to poorer education programmes, write student reps on the Study Board of Biology:
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The students are also affected by layoffs at the Faculty of Science
We fear cancelled courses and poorer quality of education, and we don't think the management acknowledges the gravity of the situation.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Danes and many internationals students and staff can vote in local elections 18 November. The University Post has compiled an overview of the #UCPH candidates on the ballots:
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These University of Copenhagen profiles are running for office in local elections
Danes and many internationals students and staff can vote in local elections 18 November. The University Post has compiled an overview of the UCPH candidates that are on the ballots.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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On 4–5 December 2025, the Danish EU Presidency, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, will host the Copenhagen Conference on Democracy and the Rule of Law 🇪🇺 ⚖️

👉 Register here before 24 November conferencemanager.events/copenhagen-c...
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Researchers at Danish universities are increasingly finding that speaking out can have consequences:
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130 researcher testimonies expose a culture of fear and silence at Danish universities
Personal stories of managerial pressure, a culture of silence, and psychological violence in academic workplaces are at the core of a new campaign by the Movement for a Free Academia. Minister for Hig...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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SODAS Lecture on November 21! 📆

In this lecture, Ruud Wouters will explore protest and politicization in the hybrid media arena, uncovering the dynamics of political contestation 📣

Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The University Post has obtained access to the University of Copenhagen #UCPH top management pay details for 2025:
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University of Copenhagen rector and management salaries 2025
See what the top university management gets in 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Student grant rules are keeping internationals off the Danish labour market: uniavisen.dk/en/danish-st...
Danish student grant shuts internationals out of internships
Master’s student Réka Joo wants to do an internship so she can get a foothold on the Danish labour market. But as an international student, she simply can’t make ends meet.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Found this bird at the foot of the Copenhagen University BioCenter, and startled more than a few members of staff when I walked by carrying a dead Wood Pigeon.
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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A Christian club that offers a space for your packed sandwiches, prayers, and the Bible:
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Christian students carve out a sacred lunchtime space
How strictly should we observe the Sabbath? And how do you best talk to God? Every Thursday, a new Christian lunch club meets up on central campus to read the Bible and pray. The University Post dropp...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Yesterday I successfully defended my joint-PhD between the University of Copenhagen and the University of Adelaide! I am now officially Dr. Nick!

And I also received favorable reviews and minor revisions on my two in-review chapters the same day!

#phdone 🐋🐋
Me presenting my thesis titled “Unravelling the resilience of Arctic marine mammals to future climate change using palaeo-archives” in the Geology Museum Auditorium in Copenhagen.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Three years after psychology students at the University of Copenhagen #UCPH blockaded their department in protest against what they saw as a one-sided approach to their subject, the criticism persists.
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Fear of becoming »bad psychologists« still haunts students
A group of students say the natural sciences dominate the psychology programme, while critical thinking, and traditions rooted in the humanities, are being pushed aside. Now they’ve launched their own...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.
HUM:Global Talk! with Sue Peabody: Recentering the Subaltern: Microhistory as Method. Public Lecture with Professor Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver. Time: 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00 Place: University of Copenhagen, South Campus, room 12.3.39
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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What are staff earning at the University of Copenhagen #UCPH right now? Here is our annual full list of job functions and their aggregated pay:
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Salaries at the University of Copenhagen 2025
Here is the full list of job functions and their aggregated pay at the University of Copenhagen in 2025.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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"No one wants to take part in a meeting where the rector sidesteps questions we have already tried to get answers to," says Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen @rhp-lab.bsky.social after section heads at the Department of Biology #UCPH cancel rector meeting: uniavisen.dk/en/boycott-a...
Boycott at Biology: »No purpose in meeting the rector«
Section heads at the Department of Biology have written to Rector David Dreyer Lassen that a planned meeting with him »serves no purpose« in light of the cutbacks at the Faculty of Science. The rector...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM