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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We can talk about Judith sklar, if that makes it less awkward!

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If we ever meet, it's ok if you hug me. I too am a hugger.

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It is worse in Texas. There's also Florida. And every red state is going to do the same (it's a concerted effort). Then the blue states have the enrollment cliff and face financial coercion from the federal government. It will be very bad for a very long time.

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

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...

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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

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I have so many questions, but first, why Wilberforce? Isn't he the wrong guy for that?

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This makes me very sad. Your work is one of TTUs crown jewels.

I think a lot about your important research here! Once politics decides that some truths are out of bounds, how long till climate science is against some executive order???

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And these numbers are from last summer!!! Imagine if you'd redo it today!

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

"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

theconversation.com

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 · 09/05/2026

But in seriousness, we study how information environments impact individual and group knowledge, we discuss responsibilities for being a participant in a knowledge community, and we explore the rationality and role of conspiracy theories. It's super fun!

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It's like a disease! Justification be catching.

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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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I was super happy to see this paper!!! I've been wanting someone to talk about this!

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

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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 · 13/04/2026

But perhaps the most radical part is the revisions to the syllabus process that allows upper admin to pick and choose what they would like to censor at whim. Today gender and sexuality. Tomorrow climate change? Gut health? International relations? Anything deemed politically "controversial"

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The article doesn't even begin to capture how oppressive this memo is. Yes, we cannot mention gender or sexual orientation in lower division classes, and we can only mention but not focus on it in upper division and graduate courses. And no graduate student admitted after Friday may study it...

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 · 04/04/2026

(performative excellence that is also a perverse excellence)

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

There is a performative excellence in retracting students discussing how this memo affects them. No one is heard, least of all the students. Couldn't those omissions have been remedied? But instead student voices are erased.

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

Interestingly, this article has now been retracted.

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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.

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

10 weeks into a sixteen week semester and no word from the board of regents. I am being told to delay content. But keep teaching. It would be funny if it weren't so distressing. My students deserve better.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is such an important point! I have a bunch to say about it, but I'll just register that I find the push to use llms in education to be a non starter because of this. (Or rather students should be trained to know the limitations so they can use them with care, tho I'd happily burn them all)

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

One reason is state demographics. California, for example, is expected to feel the enrollment cliff keenly (and are being prevented from making up the difference with international students). If we weren't destroying our universities nationally, though, this would be a great opportunity

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

I am not supposed to teach it until I get permission in March. Class started today. They really do not give a flip that they are working with student's education and stealing their money.

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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...

texastribune.org

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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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

After reading through more threads, I think your kids have hella more to deal with than I did, and I don't want to take any of the focus from them. But thank you for this compassion. ❤️❤️❤️ You are an incredible parent.

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Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

As someone who once was that grandchild, I'm sending all the support I can, and know that your seeing and understanding means everything.

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Even though I knew it was coming, it still shook me

Amy Flowerree @flowerree.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In the American south "coke" is a generic name for a soda. I don't think Pepsi is the generic name for soda anywhere.

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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...

texastribune.org

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.