Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social Professor, Author, and Champion of Academic Freedom and Accountability. I speak only for myself. drleonardbright.com
Matthew Pittman @matthewcpittman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Advertising, Social Media, and Fun
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Alice Dreger @alicedreger.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist, historian. Not always in that order. 
Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social Project Censored’s mission is to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democracy. We educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Censorship undermines democracy.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Jacob Mchangama @mchangama.bsky.social Executive Director at @futurefreespeech.org, Research professor Vanderbilt University, Senior Fellow at FIRE, author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media"
The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org Reaffirming free expression as the bedrock of free and thriving societies through actionable research, empowering tools, and principled advocacy. We are an independent, non-partisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University. https://futurefreespeech.org
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
https://inthesetimes.com/
AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social The Ohio State University chapter of the AAUP defends academic freedom & faculty rights and promotes higher ed as a common good. Member of AAUP/AFT Local 6741.
Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social Professor (views my own - not my institution's), co-editor and co-author of "The Right to Learn" and "It's Not Free Speech," and director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary "The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests?" Portland, OR
AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social Advocating for #academicfreedom, diversity, shared governance, due process, and tenure in #highered. Texas A&M Chapter of @AAUP. ❤️s & shares🚫endorsements.
Mary Anne Franks @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.
The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social Fighting the assault on higher education and science by the Trump administration. Defending science, academic freedom, and the power of knowledge. HANDS OFF HIGHER ED!
🔥 #DefendHigherEd #DefendScience
Run by academics. DM us with tips and resources.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
AAUP-South Carolina @aaup-sc.org Your South Carolina Conference of chapters of the AAUP. We fight for academic freedom, shared governance, and better working conditions for all in higher ed. Join: no one can advocate for us like us. https://www.aaup-sc.org/
Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social The UChicago chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Fighting for democracy and academic freedom since 1915. uchicagoaaup.org
BrieAnna Frank @brieannafrank.bsky.social USA Today First Amendment reporting fellow.
Email: bjfrank@usatoday.com.
AAUP-CSU @aaupcsu.bsky.social Colorado State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (https://aaupcsu.org/).
Advancing academic freedom and shared governance.
Supporting all who engage in teaching and research in higher education.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org Yale faculty and instructional staff organizing for academic freedom, shared governance, and a university that serves truth, knowledge, and the public good. Visit aaupyale.org to learn more and join the movement!✊🎓
Fordham AAUP @fordhamaaup.bsky.social Fordham University chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
https://sites.google.com/view/fordham-aaup/
Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social The largest progressive gathering in the U.S. 🔥
📍 #NN27 will be in Denver: July 8-10, 2027
NetrootsNation.org
Don Moynihan @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
Amna Khalid @amnauncensored.bsky.social History prof (Carleton College). Intellectual freedom; free expression. Podcast & blog Banished: http://banished.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@Banished-YouTube; https://www.amnakhalid.com
Adrienne Lu @adriennelu.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Ed writing about what it's like to live and work in higher ed. Get in touch: adrienne.lu@chronicle.com; Signal adriennelu.60
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social The official account of the President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate, SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of English Bruce Simon, 7/1/2025-6/30/2027. Fund, price, staff, and govern higher ed as the indispensable public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social https://divinity.duke.edu/sites/default/files/documents/cv/ALH%20CV%202025%20short%20version.pdf
Jim Barrows 🇺🇸 @jmbarrows.bsky.social I like
🇺🇸 Freedom and Democracy
⚽️Real Madrid and Bayern Munich
☕️Cold brew
🤖Science fiction
🎷Jazz
🗽Cities
🎨 Abstract Expressionism
J.P. @jpturcotte.bsky.social Healthcare worker // B.A. in International Studies // Film Studies dropout (Japanese animation history) // Also, international news and Canada-Québec politics. Je publie en français et en anglais, surtout sur Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@jpturcotte
Tom Ginsburg @tomginsburg.bsky.social professor, conversationist, groovy world traveler.
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.- L @lynnhaller.bsky.social @lynnhaller.bsky.social
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social Comics friend.
Linktr.ee/lucyknisley
AAUP @aaup.org 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
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc