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From his textbook “Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring The Equations of Life.” In the last sentence of the preface, after a couple dozen acknowledgements that are literally just a list of names, he has one last special thanks that gets its own paragraph:

“I thank Jeffrey Epstein for many ideas and for letting me participate in his passionate pursuit of knowledge in all its forms”

Email Source: EFTA00984937

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/25/nowak-leave-epstein/

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[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Harvard punishes child rapists with a paid vacation?

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You're basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.

In other words, your question amounts to:

"An investigation started? Why isn't it over?"

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Now, as Devil's Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don't have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are "Right to Work."

Back on Team "Give them a second for crying out loud," we're talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we'd hope any employer we'd ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there's evidence supporting an accusation against us.

Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R "Rights" as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.

[–] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 4 points 2 days ago

he hasn't been investigated yet

[–] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was just a little statutory torture. I don't see what the problem is.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Statutorture? Sorry, can't help a good wordsmush

[–] modus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a delightful portmanteau.

[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bruh, you can't portmanteau a portmanteau. That's like dividing by zero.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Except for bromance, bruh, that’s a portmanbro

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I feel seen and appreciated. Thank you.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Punishing people for things you can't know they did means hurting people to gratify your feelings. Which is exactly what they did to make you feel that way. So...how does that work?