• dustyData
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    6 months ago

    Just speculating, maybe it has to do with belonging to Russian academia.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, there was some background drama with his parent institution, if I remember correctly. He didn’t have enough money to fly anywhere, his institution refused to donate and he was too embarrassed to ask elsewhere. Or something like that.