Disturbing updates from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
encampment (I watched original stream to verify). The crowd chants « Death to Jews » in Arabic (translation of “ lilsahayina” is -Jews or Israelis, not zionists). This doesn’t look like an academic discourse protected by the MIT Freedom of…

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Learnt that the New England Jewish Community will stand with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jewish students in large campus support event!

These students have suffered repeated antisemite harassment & hostile campus, enabled by morally dysfunctional leaders!

Spread the word!

We need more of this.

Sad news: Anton Zilman, a fellow theoretical biophysicist from UofToronto, a friend, and a charming and warm person has passed away.

Sad news indeed: Anton Zilman suddenly passed away. Long-time colleague with major contributions to understanding the biophysics of transport through the nuclear pore complex. And a great guy! We'll miss him.

When 'activism' merges with narcissism, it's less about the cause and more about the ego.

Congratulations to our postdoc Jeremy Owen on becoming a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Quantitative Biology fellow!

Very proud and happy for my former student Jeremy Owen who made a great career move to start an experimental research!

Thrilled and honored by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation’s support! Very grateful to my mentors Tom and Ned, and to every single member of the The Muir Lab for welcoming a theorist who wants to do experiments!

Tonight's seder is 22 years after the Park Hotel seder bombing by Hamas that killed 30 (incl. holocaust survivors) + injured 140. It was planned by Abbas Al-Sayed who got 35 life sentences for it. Seems he's on the list of prisoners Hamas wants freed in exchange for hostages. 1/

Excellent example that reporting 'significant correlation' makes no sense (I guess it's r=0.1 and p=0.01 in Lior's example).

Happy to see out paper with Erica Hildebrand (Dekker Lab), Kirill Polovnikov Kirill and Job Dekker Job Dekker out in Mol Cell 4DNucleome . How do cells manage topology of their chromosomes?
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Heartbreaking.

Courageous and authentic testimony by Israeli-American MIT PhD, Liyam Chitayat, about antisemitism at MIT.

Commons in Boston, Nov 19, 2023.

Bill Ackman Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)