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Lex
@lexica.bsky.social
Trying to spend more time with language flash cards than scrolling on social media. Gender: vague; pronouns: they/them. 저는 한국어를 공부하지만 아직 잘 못해요. 💜🐳🏝️
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FIRE's misleading free speech rankings systematically portray some campuses as intolerant. This was bad when it merely drove media coverage. It will be a disaster if government agencies now start to direct scientific funding based on non-scientific criteria.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
NIH nominee might base funding on campus academic freedom
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the National Institutes of Health is considering somehow factoring campus academic freedom into how likely a university is to receive research grants, unn...
www.insidehighered.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).
December 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I found myself putting my hand over the left side of the screen because I wanted to hear what she was saying but he was just too annoying.
December 7, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I very carefully did not say we *wouldn't* be bringing cats home. He just wasn't paying attention to the details.
October 28, 2024 at 2:03 AM
I am so very, very sorry to hear this news. He was a wonderful person whose writing changed my life, and I'm thankful to have gotten to meet him in person. Sympathy and love to you and everyone who's grieving his loss.
August 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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It’s amazing how Chotiner manages to regularly flummox his interview subjects via such obscure and outré methods as “reading their Wikipedia pages” and “remembering which felonies they plead out on.”
April 30, 2024 at 12:21 AM