and real job security for contingent faculty everywhere. The fight is winnable. It's time to move.
#AdjunctFaculty #ContingentFaculty #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #DueProcess #AFT1931 #HigherEdLabor #FacultyRights
U.S. universities are grappling with the dual challenge of safeguarding research integrity while navigating the sensitive landscape of foreign influence and student rights.
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#US #ResearchSecurity #CitizenPortal #MichiganUniversities #TransparencyLaws #AcademicFreedom
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BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) Statement on the Israeli Attack on the Lebanese University
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom condemns the Israeli attack on Lebanon’s only public institution of higher education, the Lebanese University (LU), on 12 March 2026. The attack resulted in the killing of two senior faculty members: Professor Hussein Bazi, Director of the Faculty of Sciences, and Professor Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics. This incident raises grave concerns regarding the protection of academic institutions, scholars, and intellectual life in contexts of armed conflict.
As noted in a statement by the American University of Beirut (AUB)’s staff union, this attack constitutes a direct assault on Lebanon’s academic institutions and intellectual life. It must be understood within a broader pattern described as scholasticide, involving the systematic destruction of educational institutions, academic communities, and knowledge production, which Israel has long used as a weapon of war and domination against the Palestinian population.
At this critical moment for the Middle East, with consequences that are reverberating globally, BRISMES CAF reaffirms its commitment to defending academic life, intellectual freedom, and the right of students and scholars to live, learn, and teach in conditions of safety and dignity. We call for an immediate end to US and Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Iran and a full arms embargo on Israel. Read the statement in full: bit.ly/brismes-02042026
The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom
condemns the Israeli attack on the Lebanese University on 12 March 2026, which resulted in the killing of two senior faculty members: Professor Hussein Bazi and Professor Mortada Srour.
Read our statement: bit.ly/brismes-02042026
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Opaque university actions amid political pressure empower trolls and compromise scholars. Failing to defend Cemal Kafadar is a profound failure of institutional courage. 5/7
#AcademicFreedom #HarvardUniversity #MiddleEasternStudies #AcademicIntegrity #History #InstitutionalAccountability
A year has passed since the abrupt dismissal of Prof. Cemal Kafadar, who I believe is the leading Turkish historian today, from Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This anniversary highlights how administrative actions undermine #AcademicFreedom. 🧵 1/7
You can’t promote “civil discourse” while silencing discussions of race and gender.
That’s not dialogue—that’s censorship.
Join us:
📍 Rudder Plaza (on TAMU campus)
🗓 April 20
⏰ 3 PM
Stand with AAUP College Station.
#AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TAMU
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Thanks to everyone for turning up at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @ipsa.org roundtable on #AcademicFreedom earlier today in #Oxford with @mayatudor.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social & others.
You were a fantastic audience who left us with lots of questions to think about.
#PSA26
Department of #Biology at @ucph.bsky.social in beautiful #Copenhagen is looking for a new #HeadOfDepartment! Join us this autumn and champion #AcademicCitizenship #AcademicFreedom #Diversity #Collaborations #ExcellentResearchAndTeaching...
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The [formerly] “Equal” Employment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC] has been pursuing an inquiry into potential workplace #discrimination against #Jewish faculty & staff at #Penn, a #school in Philadelphia, since 2023. While #university officials said they welcomed the investigation, they balked […]
Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the US District Court in Philadelphia issued the decision, which largely sided with the #government, writing that #Penn’s “constitutional claims are easily dispensed with.”
He gave #Penn until May 1 to comply with the subpoena, though he said that the #university […]
The #Trump admin was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about #Jewish people on campus as part of a federal investigation into #discrimination at the #school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.
The ruling clears a hurdle for the Trump admin as it […]
🤖 Integrating #AI tools into pharmacy curricula
📑 Strategies to protect and improve #academicfreedom at pharmacy schools
📈 Enhancing staff engagement & growth;
and more! Further, two dynamic general sessions will bring innovation and impact together in a big way… (2/5)
Giving Day!
Right now, our community is coming together! Let’s support #AcademicFreedom and reaffirm the vital role of #HigherEducation in the world.
One of the best ways to do so is by contributing to the Scholars at Risk (SAR) uOttawa Program! ➡️ give.uottawa.ca/page/186266/...
Proud to have the 1st students @unibergen.bsky.social to take a Student Advocacy Seminar in collab w/ @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social! At #SARadvocacydays, they presented a report on the decline in #academicfreedom for #gender & #queer studies in the US & Russia🌈🎓 #gendersky
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#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF has written to the UK Home Secretary to express concern regarding the reported introduction of an “emergency brake” on student visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan (1/3). Read our letter: tinyurl.com/3dtzt236%F0%...
Librarians losing their job isn't really a threat bc of the university's commitment to #academicfreedom. But concerns around #selfcensorship are real. How do we advance our university's mission in light of the threats? #censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #DefendResearch #UKSG2026
#UKSG2026 @defendresearch.bsky.social Research Consulting and UKY libraries on #censorship and attacks on #academicfreedom and #freespeech
Kicking off #UKSG2026 public talks with Rob Johnson/Doug Way on #censorship and its dangers worldwide. @defendresearch.bsky.social sharing its work as well as Doug/Rob highlighting the challenges to #academicfreedom #FreeSpeech. #UKSG2026
URGENT! AB2159 - ~~ MEANS PROTECTING OUR MEMBERS! When AB715 was signed into law in October of 2025, we knew two things: 1.) would lead to an erosion of academic freedom and would stifle the right of teachers to teach and students to learn about the Palestinian struggle. Educators would quickly find themselves targeted and it would have 2.) dire consequences because it bypasses local districts complaint systems and makes complaints directly to the state, erroding due process. But.... we were promised by the Governor, clean up language that would protect us. AB2159 is exactly that. It will remove the IHRA definition as the legal basis for identifying antisemitism, require that the Antisemitism Coordinator be hired through a merit-based civil service process, and eliminates the vague language that enables politically motivated discrimination complaints. We can do two things to ensure its passage.. Email your state assembly member to urge they support AB2159: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7nQmhlPUyaeSZmD69NiugnmQWohu_sRLnrIF-FEsFXejF1Q/viewform?usp=preview Email UTLA Members to urge them to expedite support of AB2159: https://tinyurl.com/ab2159
URGENT ACTION NEEDED:
Yall we need your help to spread the word on #a
AB2159 which is the bill to clean up the language of #AB715 Please spread this to your networks, we need to overwhelm the cta leadership and CA assembly into action. Takes three min […]
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I give #Iowa credit for downing the worst 1 seed Florida (like worst as institution of higher education, in terms of #academicfreedom), which a) prevented really boring all 1 seed #FinalFour b) got 2 of my Alma maters in the #FinalFour
Shout out to my fellow #Michigan and #Illinois degree friends
#AcademicFreedom
#AAUP is standing up for academic freedom and more. If you're a college or university professor now is the time to join while we still have free speech!
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We do not have kings in this country.
My ethics course was canceled for teaching race & gender.
This is about control vs inquiry. Fear vs truth.
They can’t silence us. It won’t happen.
#AcademicFreedom #NoKings
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When Politics Invades the Lab: A Cautionary Tale From AI's Premier Conference
#AI #AcademicFreedom #USChina #NeurIPS #AusNews
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Some great resources to get started with creating an AF committee at your campus. #AcademicFreedom
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#RealHeroes Vs #Fascism and #Genocide support by @sydney.edu.au
Disgusting that #Universities are squashing #Protests and #AcademicFreedom.
Yuck, @australianlabor.bsky.social and @albomp.bsky.social! You make me sick!
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The US is following Hungary and Turkey down the #AcademicFreedom Index. The 🇺🇸 now ranks alongside Thailand and Kyrgyzstan on institutional autonomy. Coercive federal actions named as the key driver. coilink.org/20.500.1259...
"A university has two distinct purposes. One is to get its students ready for life in the "real world". The other is to keep, in a cool dry place, the knowledge and wisdom that the real world isn't buying at the moment."
Jane Burroway
Writing Fiction
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