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University Hall at Northwestern University, which responded to a complaint about hate speech against Bart van Alphen by telling the student to "reach out to Hillel," the Jewish campus organization. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
JTA — A Northwestern University neuroscientist who caused controversy with a series of racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic posts he wrote on social media has died by suicide.
Bart van Alphen, a postdoctoral fellow who studied sleep patterns, appears to have maintained multiple social media accounts under the name @The_Dr_Caveman that denigrated women, echoed far-right slurs and repeatedly called for the death and deportation of protesters, nonwhite immigrants and politicians whose views he opposed.