this is where it seems to get substantially more dangerous (and it's already plenty dangerous)

keep yourself safe too

good catch. (it unf made me think of various professor watch lists 😩)

I don't mean this in a self-congratulatory way because I had nothing to do with it, but other universities and the press are deliberately ignoring the fact that our union already won a permanent injunction against terminating funds this way. "Critics" here includes federal judicial precedent.

i just realized we are/were mutuals on mastodon? waving hi!!

what i've heard is that powerful alumni networks are in the mix too, especially at the elite private schools like the one where i work

I was very glad when the Big 10 Academic Alliance put this ad out; but it misses the opportunity to bring it home and say "AND THIS IS ALL UNDER THREAT", which ... sucks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmc...

"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

archive link: archive.ph/TxBWo

i just got a really weird reply to a post about how people in rich western countries should be mostly vegan as a low-hanging-fruit proposition. rather than argue i muted the poster and hid their replies, but... this from you comes at an interesting time!

Online attacks against EAT-Lancet were a coordinated campaign.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

archive link: archive.ph/TxBWo