Academic Freedom
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A thread about academic freedom, sex and gender. This is not the only topic where university VCs have not defended academic freedom strongly enough, but it is a very good demonstr...
1/ New from me in @TheEconomist: Emails released during discovery in a youth gender medicine case demonstrate that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health interfe...
1/ I have to disagree with Gerak on this one (and several others who have defended open debate with Gilley under the banner of “academic freedom” and “free speech”). https://t.co/K...
🧵The Archives of Sexual Behavior recently published a special section on the difficulties scholars are facing in teaching, clinical practice & research in the area of sex & gender....
1. Academia increasingly prioritizes equity and works to ensure scholarship does not offend or pose risks to vulnerable groups. @EPoe187 and I contend that these shifting prioritie...
Freedom of speech is nice idea, and works in society relatively homogenous, when differing views are circumscribed, doesn’t anger people much to hear opposing argument. Won’t work...
Tenure exists to exist to protect academic freedom. University of Pennsylvania Law School is requesting an investigation of Amy Wax, which appears to be the first step towards tryi...
I feel so gaslit by @arunNYC’s “report” on “Hindutva threats” to academic freedom & Hinduphobia that I’m breaking my 7-year Twitter maun vratam (silence). @WNYC’s deliberate ERASU...
