Surrounded by a magpie from 1928, a sandwich tern from 1922, boxes full of Fulmarus glacialis (northern fulmars), Buteo buteo (buzzards) and other birds, Jos van der Geest talks about his hobby as a ...

Next year, eleven bachelor’s programmes in the Netherlands will cap the number of first-year students in their English-language tracks. The aim is to manage the controversial internationalisation of ...

In his free time, Jack Dahly sells Syrian olive oil from his grandfather. Image credit: Pien Düthmann When master’s student Jack Dahly visited his Syrian family for the first time this year, he ...

Editor-in-chief Wieneke Gunneweg observes, after reading EM’s end-of-year interviews, that everyone seems to become happier from working with their hands and their heart than with their head – and at ...

For Neris Kayahan, songwriting is not just a form of art, but more of ‘getting her emotions out’. Image credit: Pien Düthmann For Psychology student Neris Kayahan, 2025 was the year she shared her ...

War and peace, fact and fiction, good and evil. These are the kinds of oppositions that we humans use to understand the world around us. But the world itself is not so black and white at all, says ...

War and peace, fact and fiction, good and evil. These are the kinds of oppositions that we humans use to understand the world around us. But the world itself is not so black and white at all. That is ...

At EM’s request, Krish created an illustration to accompany this story, based on the artwork in his game, inserting himself into the scene. Image credit: Krish Raghav How surreal is the Dutch housing ...

In zijn vrije tijd verkoopt Jack Dahly Syrische olijfolie van zijn opa. Beeld door: Pien Düthmann Toen masterstudent Jack Dahly dit jaar voor het eerst zijn Syrische familie bezocht, ontdekte hij de ...

The year started of with Fouad L.’s court case. The former medical student was on trial for the triple murder of his neighbour and her 14-year-old daughter and a lecturer from the Erasmus MC. The ...