High-school journalists describe a chilling effect on student speech as students and teachers increasingly self-censor.
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High-school journalists describe a chilling effect on student speech as students and teachers increasingly self-censor.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#censorship #DefendResearch #Academicsky #AcademicChatter #Freespeech
Stories of strategy & solidarity from the front-lines of the fight for intellectual freedom ft. #DefendResearch, @shawntalbrown.bsky.social, @drmbutler.bsky.social, Dr. Scott Perry, & Amanda Garcia
🗓️ Oct 1, 11 AM EST
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Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff denounces the use of terrorism laws to suppress political speech. Security cannot become a pretext for censorship.
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A White House plan would give political appointees power to approve or block NIH grants—moving political review over scientific peer review.
We’ve shared some early findings from our work with #DefendResearch, mapping the impact of US research censorship on public health and epidemiology.
But why did we get involved, and what happens next?
Find out more about the project and how you can help: buff.ly/mA42OgK
ICYMI: Judge struck down West Point’s restrictions on professors’ speech.
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More censorship in the classroom. A professor says she was fired for assigning a short story. Education without difficult ideas isn’t education.
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Pseudoscientists really don't care about the science.
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27 UNIHTED has a powerful fact-check of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s testimony—matching his claims against funding data, staff losses, grant censorship, and NIH policy.
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The fight for intellectual and academic freedom is playing out across campuses in Texas and Florida. Hear stories from front-line activists in #DefendResearch’s next webinar October 1st at 11 AM ET
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Political loyalty is no substitute for expertise. Rebuilding U.S. research will take shared governance, collective action, and academics ready to fight.
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The disinformation ratchets up. #DefendResearch & @researchconsulting.bsky.social have a joint project surfacing patterns from aggregated instances of government #censorship in #PublicHealth. See the recent webinar: youtu.be/ji1Nx99_Udg & project description: www.defendresearch.org/projects
TX & FL are sites of longstanding attacks on #AcademicFreedom at #HigherEd institutions, esp. related to race, ethnicity, & gender identity. Register for the 10/1 #DefendResearch webinar to hear how faculty & staff from these states are organizing in response! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Censorship doesn’t just block information-it distorts research. Access must be built in.
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ICYMI The recording of the latest #DefendResearch webinar, “From Anecdote to Evidence: Mapping the Impact of US Gov #Censorship on Public Health Research” with @researchconsulting.bsky.social is up now.
One sentence barred political interference in federal statistics. The Trump administration quietly deleted it. Facts don’t bend to politics.
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Calling science “partisan” doesn’t make it so. The DOJ pressed 12 journals to defend their editorial decisions—an alarming intrusion.
https://f.mtr.cool/jfi297kbg1
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Government power is being used to punish critical reporting and pressure the press. The damage to free expression could last far beyond one administration.
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