Despite the deadly repression of student protesters from July-August 2024, #Bangladesh saw a slight improvement in the #AcademicFreedomIndex, esp regarding campus integrity—the extent to which campuses are free from surveillance and security infringements.
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Data from the #AcademicFreedomIndex reveals declining levels of #academicfreedom across authoritarian and democratic contexts. Over the past decade, in fact, global academic freedom levels have shrunk at an accelerating pace. Read why in #Free2Think2025:
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Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵

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Where these data come from:

I offer more of an assessment of #AcademicFreedomIndex derived from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data on #Mongolia.
mongoliafocus.com/2025/05/asse...

Looking at #AcademicFreedomIndex components @vdeminstitute.bsky.social since 2015 in more detail.

I've taken a look at #Mongolia #AcademicFreedomIndex, derived from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data.
Score has broadly declined since 2019. What does this score mean?
mongoliafocus.com/2025/04/acad...
#MGLpoli

This trend will continue, and the US index will gradually approach that of Russia, Turkey and Hungary, etc.

Full report is accessible from academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

#AcademicFreedomIndex #Science

#Mongolia score declined slightly in #AcademicFreedomIndex drawing on @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data.

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 New article published in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social together with my coauthor Janika Spannagel: doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001968
We assessed the quality of the #academicfreedomindex from the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social dataset. \1

Der #AcademicFreedomIndex ist weltweit seit 2006 gesunken und etwa auf dem Stand von vor 50 Jahren.

Dies hat mehrere Gründe: Bevölkerungswachstum, Politische und Gesellschaftliche Polarisierung

Deutschland liegt auf Platz 11

#Wissenschaftsfreiheit
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The book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from the #AcademicFreedomIndex AFi