Academic Freedom, Free Speech, Libraries
A non-comprehensive list.
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@akalhan.bsky.social
@heidikitrosser.bsky.social
Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@oiyanpoon.bsky.social
Race scholar, author, educator, and Chicago Public School mom & LSC parent rep member. Off-Brand Asian Mom. Co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative (www.CAFCOLAB.org) www.publicpedagogy.info
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@genevievelakier.bsky.social
Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
@madisonspeaking.bsky.social
new college alum 💙 pau / uaw 🌹 loves poetry, dogs, queer history, birding 🪩 she/they 🌟 views my own, personal account 🍉
@bradvivian.bsky.social
Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy) *Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP) *Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
@llassabe.bsky.social
historian, author, speaker, podcaster | RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT: CONSERVATIVES AND THE CAMPUS WARS (UNC Press, 2023) | 🎧 American Campus podcast www.laurenlassabe.com
@robertkelchen.com
Professor & head, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. https://robertkelchen.com/
@ecleininger.bsky.social
Associate Prof at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Neuroscientist & STEM Education researcher. In my spare time I photograph birds and play gamelan music. Views are my own.
@imulvey.bsky.social
Immediate Past President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Professor Emerita of Mathematics. Faculty activist. Proud parent to three fabulous adult kids.
@isaackamola.bsky.social
Higher education & African anticolonialism. Professor at Trinity College. Wrote "Making the World Global" and "Free Speech And Koch Money." Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (AAUP). Views=my own.
@gshans.bsky.social
Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who bakes, makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Tech law & policy, con law, clinical education, and screaming into the void. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
@audreytruschke.bsky.social
Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social
Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE all posts personal
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
The 🌎’s oldest and largest library association. Find us at https://ala.org. We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
@penamerica.bsky.social
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP–Penn)
@aaup.bsky.social
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
@kewhittington.bsky.social
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University. Founding Chair, Academic Freedom Alliance; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. All opinions are mine alone.
@charlottegarden.bsky.social
Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats.
@librarianjones.com
Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Grassroots Organizer-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
@edrabinski.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Queens College (CUNY) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Past President, American Library Association. PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
@jeremycyoung.bsky.social
Senior Advisor @aacu.org. Advocate for liberal education. Personal account.
@timcain.bsky.social
I teach about and study faculty, academic freedom, campus unions, student activism, and the history of higher education. I don't post about my amazing kid because it is their story to tell some day.
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Political Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity, but with professional capacities, one hopes. No DMs. https://jwmueller.princeton.edu/
@kimlanelaw.bsky.social
Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
@bletiecq.bsky.social
Professor studying families, immigration, structural oppression. Community-based participatory action research. Academic freedom. NCFR President. GMU-AAUP Pres. VP of AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Mom/partner. Part of Twitter exodus. Posts mine.
@anitabethdc.bsky.social
Academic freedom fighter for @aaup.bsky.social. Anti-Zionist Jew, believer in higher education; racial, gender, and reproductive justice; immigrants rights; the right to organize; and all that good stuff.
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@maryannefranks.bsky.social
Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
@brsoucek.bsky.social
Professor at UC Davis Law School, where I teach con law & civil procedure and write about academic freedom & aesthetics. Author of The Opinionated University (U Chicago Press 2025) and Permitting Art (Cabinet). https://law.ucdavis.edu/people/brian-soucek
@hankreichman.bsky.social
Former AAUP Vice-President; Former Chair AAUP Committee A; Author, The Future of Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2019); Understanding Academic Freedom (JHUP, 2021, 2025). Prof. Emer., CSU East Bay. Historian of Russia/Soviet Union.
@akalhan.bsky.social
Law professor, Drexel Univ • Fellow, UC Nat'l Ctr for Free Speech & Civic Engagement • Affiliated fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Cmte A on Academic Freedom ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan