Bitsy Perlman
@bitsyperlman.bsky.social
Economic Historian at the Census. 19th & 21st C innovation, sci of sci, urban/spatial, info spread. All views are my own or expressed for rhetorical exposition. Posts before 2025 were imported. (they/them)
Brookline, MA
Brookline, MA
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Worse, zero contest. It was mediocre seminar pizza. Joe's is, IMO, actually good pizza
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Worse, zero contest. It was mediocre seminar pizza. Joe's is, IMO, actually good pizza
Also, did I give a seminar (and eat some pizza) at a lab funded by MBS and Epstein money: yes I did.
I don't know what my point is here. Maybe to say the corruption runs deeps, and getting to a place of better balance can't just happen by pretending there are a few bad people. It's systemic.
I don't know what my point is here. Maybe to say the corruption runs deeps, and getting to a place of better balance can't just happen by pretending there are a few bad people. It's systemic.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Also, did I give a seminar (and eat some pizza) at a lab funded by MBS and Epstein money: yes I did.
I don't know what my point is here. Maybe to say the corruption runs deeps, and getting to a place of better balance can't just happen by pretending there are a few bad people. It's systemic.
I don't know what my point is here. Maybe to say the corruption runs deeps, and getting to a place of better balance can't just happen by pretending there are a few bad people. It's systemic.
(As a woman in her early 20s this seemed like a sensible line to me — I'd had enough uncomfortable things happen at conferences when I was in my 20s)
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
(As a woman in her early 20s this seemed like a sensible line to me — I'd had enough uncomfortable things happen at conferences when I was in my 20s)
So what did we know in 2019: lots of people in Cambridge had some research funding related to Jeffrey Epstein, that showing the science off to him was a condition, that MIT media lab was particularly implicated (and also took money from MBS), that maybe Harvard was just better at keeping quiet
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So what did we know in 2019: lots of people in Cambridge had some research funding related to Jeffrey Epstein, that showing the science off to him was a condition, that MIT media lab was particularly implicated (and also took money from MBS), that maybe Harvard was just better at keeping quiet