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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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The Faculty Senate at Texas Tech did an unscientific survey of instructors on questions of course censorship and a significant number participated (c350). The results are both shocking but not surprising. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/29/t...

Texas Tech’s restrictions on race, gender lessons prompt changes

A faculty senate survey found professors altered or were asked to change material in 277 courses after Texas Tech’s restrictions on race, sexuality and gender.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Idk, doing something different for a while. Still mad and sad at the world, but in a much better part of the world

Mountain vista, snow capped, probably taken from a high altitude

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"When the state decides which questions may and may not be researched, it is doing more than shaping curriculum. It is regulating the boundaries of knowledge itself by determining what future scholars may study and what universities are permitted to discover." #ttu #censorship

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Texas Tech’s new limits on how faculty teach gender identity and sexual orientation challenge more than free speech

A new memo blocks graduate students from writing theses or dissertations on certain topics, raising questions about academic freedom and the purpose of higher education.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Pretty excited about this book being out in time for my fall social epistemology class! #philsky

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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Censorship regime at Texas Tech is too extreme for (checks notes) the American Enterprise Institute. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Tyranny at Texas Tech

Academic freedom and the First Amendment must protect the right of anyone to disagree with the government.

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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Please share.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It is quite the week to be teaching book 9 of the Republic.

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Student asked what they would say to TTU's chancellor, Brandon Creighton, "Resign." Four months at the job and *students* are calling on him to resign.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I have filled out the form justifying why I should be allowed to teach Plato's republic, even though they include discussion of things that the Board of Regents things sound like gender identity and sexual orientation (Plato didn't have those concepts). www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching

Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

So delighted that one of my favorite thinkers & writers engaged with my new preprint on empathy 🥰 By far one of the best parts of being an academic is putting ideas out into the world and seeing them refracted through other minds, who help you see things more richly than you did before.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

These professors try to put in their learning objectives that students will *learn* things! The nerve! The public simply will not pay for a university education where students *learn*!!! jobs and football is all that matters, you nincompoops! www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits

Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Chancellor of #TTU issued a memo today triggering a review of all course content related to gender, race, and sexual orientation, effective immediately. Which is more amateur? issuing it four days before finals, or not having a final step to the process (so how could anything be approved?)

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

So proud of my neighborhood! (Not a current resident, but always in my heart) open.spotify.com/episode/1nnH...

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Rogers Park

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's like the bike lock principle. Don't spend $10 on a bike lock for a $500 bike

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A clearheaded call for academic freedom, transparency, and treating each other with dignity, from the aaup: www.ttuaaup.com/our-work

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TTU AAUP Chapter - Our Work

AAUP ISSUES

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And here it is: www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t... Headline is misleading. The "guidance" was "follow the law" with no statement as to how this applies to anything. And if the EOs applied to how I teach, you think they could have figured it out in the last *nine* months.

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Emerging and concerning story at a university closely connected to TTU

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CC🇨🇦🍁 @collycee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m watching a live stream

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Some things flourish in Texas ♥️

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Great writing reflections from Nguyen!

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

LLMs are less like Jeopardy contestants (who “win” if they get the right answer) and more like Family Feud contestants (who “win” if they guess the most popular answer).

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A first, our peach tree has fruited!

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Wind in the pecan tree. Hammock time. Grateful this year has ended (except all that admin that can wait a day or so).

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Important piece on antidepressants. Tldr: mental health care is complicated and going off SSRIs is really hard. RFK's statements are not helpful, but a lot of people suffer and we need evidence based standards for coming off them.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I think saying "in America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty" works better for low-info normies than saying "due process" does

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/04/2025

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Kleptocracy Presidency

Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2025

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Painting by Daniella Willett-Rabin ‘Deep Into the Land of Enchantment’ (New Mexico), 2022, Oil on canvas. Dimensions 48 x 40 Inches.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 01/04/2025

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits presidents to two terms. It was a direct response to FDR serving four terms and aimed to prevent a president from becoming too powerful or too much like a king. By @mark-satta.bsky.social, Wayne State University ⬇️ #polisky #termlimits

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Do you too worry that epistemic injustice is insufficiently tied to concerns of *justice*?