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Parisa Ghanoni Bostanabad believes that personal integrity, respect and accountability should form part of the criteria for earning a doctoral degree. This is because behaviour that is tolerated at the beginning of an academic career often shapes the culture at later stages.
Birgit van Driel has always been fascinated by history and looks back at four years of writing columns for Delta. This makes her part of TU Delft’s history.
Nothing about social media is social anymore, observes Alex Nedelcu. Chatbots are replacing friends, and AI models are fragmenting our interactions, driving us even further apart.
Dap Hartmann believes that it is the task, if not the duty, of universities and the press to give voice to a variety of perspectives. To his dismay, this is happening less and less. How dull is a newspaper in which everyone agrees with one another?
Recent research shows that students perform worse when they have to take exams early in the morning. And it is well known that sleep deprivation is extremely unhealthy. Mirte Brouwer is therefore calling for different timetables.
In a system where it’s never entirely clear whether you’re ‘good enough’, saying no doesn’t seem like an option, because you think it’s your fault. But the problem lies not only in the system, as Britte Bouchaut observes, but also in how we treat one another within it.
Mayank Gupta challenges the idea that science is purely objective while politics is merely subjective. He argues that separating the two limits the university’s role in society and weakens its impact. Instead, he calls for a closer integration of political debate and scientific inquiry to drive meaningful change.
While, until recently, the term dual-use set alarm bells ringing, TU Delft and the Ministry of Defence praise it as something positive, notes Sander Otte. But dual-use is far from harmless, he says.
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