Lev Lesokhin

Tech strategy, deployment and marketing

[Lev Lesokhin @levlesokhin]

Just under a year since @mitfreespeech held a debate on this exact topic at #MIT https://t.co/5Dmu2z7Sjp

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

BREAKING: University of Florida has fired all employees related to DEI. The conservative counter-revolution has begun.

[Lev Lesokhin @levlesokhin]

@GeorgeMayer Best laptop mouse ever!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Next Thursday, we're co-hosting a debate on the issue of systemic racism in STEM. We're thrilled to bring this accomplished team of professors and practitioners together for what promises to be a great discussion.

To attend, register here: https://t.co/lz0ysgmMec

[Jerry Coyne @Evolutionistrue]

https://t.co/PQ0SFThTvQ

Tomorrow 8 pm Eastern time. I've included the YouTube link.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Some of us had a chance to hear Sally Kornbluth last night in NYC at the presidential tour organized by @MIT_alumni. Sally touched on the current turmoil on campus. She went into more detail in our all-hands meeting last week https://t.co/VM05alUrPx ; membership is free!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

The guest speaker for our final all-hands member meeting of the year is @MIT President Sally Kornbluth! We're excited to bring her our #freespeech questions and for what promises to be a great conversation. We hope you'll join us on October 19.
https://t.co/p3nAHZgFtI

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Our first annual conference was a success! Great keynote from @GlennLoury and discussions with #MIT and #Harvard students, numerous MIT profs, and leaders from @afsaalumni and sister organizations. https://t.co/E36gJ4ibEH

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

President Sally Kornbluth will be in our next all-hands meeting on Oct 19, 7:30pm, discussing @MIT's progress on #freeexpression and taking questions from MFSA members. Membership is free for all. Join us! https://t.co/p3nAHZgFtI

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

A lot of good advice to incoming students from Denison U. president Adam Weinberg, especially this:

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Another finding from the @NDSUBusiness's recently completed survey of college students https://t.co/qtZN7NcXXj. The majority of students feel they should report comments they find offensive to the university. Is that an inhibitor to #freedomofspeech on US campuses?

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

In more lighthearted MIT-related fare, the family of the late Charles Stark Draper, namesake of the Cambridge engineering nonprofit, spent two years restoring the lab's famed mannequin, with hidden drinks compartment, gifted to Draper by his engineers.
https://t.co/kvzNxzps4T

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

This week, our friends at @CUFreeSpeech released a comprehensive report outlining recommendations to improve the climate for #FreeSpeech at Cornell University. Bravo to them--we hope it's widely read and given its due consideration.
https://t.co/88sszRJvBk

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

An oldie but goodie - the speech by Rowan Atkinson @OfficalMrBean more than 10 years ago about the importance of #freedomofspeech. So well-articulated https://t.co/Bbdrk3ngyA. Note the wall behind him - "feel free to insult me".

[Lev Lesokhin @levlesokhin]

The last thing we want is for college to turn into a safe space!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Would you rather study in a “safe space” or a ”brave space" https://t.co/SlduLK9TrD? Find out what that means by tuning into the debate on DEI in academia that we held at @MIT in April https://t.co/KccS4foP7M. Thanks to @KarithFoster for introducing the concept of “brave space”!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

An important initiative from @ctzns_schlrs enlisting 13 university presidents in promoting & defending #freespeech. It's encouraging to see more university presidents across the country putting themselves on the line for this issue. We hope it continues.
https://t.co/rt8AKeWHRx

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Are mandatory #DEI statements for university employees a form of compelled speech? @conor64 covers this issue in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/4jf5aMkpkT. Explore the tension between forced DEI and #FreedomOfSpeech at colleges in our debate held at @MIT - https://t.co/KccS4foP7M.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Kids are even more worried about being cancelled than adults, says @PDeniseLong https://t.co/uXmzQ3HSVS, discussing what we can do to enable students to address these fears during our April #DEI debate. More on our April debate: https://t.co/KccS4foP7M.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

ICYMI, @PDeniseLong recently appeared on @LawrenceBJones3 Cross Country for a discussion of corporate DEI initiatives, highlighting her participation in our April DEI debate.
(https://t.co/BNFufL8w23). Thanks for the shoutout! For more on the debate, see https://t.co/PmYXUBSmxH

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

We hosted a debate at @MIT on academic DEI programs. The difference between Equity and Equality https://t.co/jLpDTPBNJy came up. We encourage you to check out the whole debate https://t.co/KccS4foP7M to hear @KarithFoster, @PDeniseLong, @KambhampatiPat and @HMDatMI debate DEI.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

From a longer feature recalling a 1949 volume of collected writings on intellectual freedom, a nice reminder of former @MIT President James Rhyne Killian's refusal to bow to pressure to remove suspected communists, made very early in his tenure. https://t.co/em7IShZc8D