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Megan Raby

@meganraby.bsky.social
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Historian of science and environment. Giving bluesky a chance. Speaking for myself as an individual and not on behalf of my employer.

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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
statesman.com
UT’s leaders are putting the university’s academic strength at risk | Opinion
Faculty and students deserve a voice as the University of Texas reshapes its core curriculum and reorganizes academic departments, UT professor Jason Brownlee writes.
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
pen.org/dare-to-obey/
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Snapshots of Censorship: Dare to Obey? Censorship and the Attack on Tenure in Texas
These truths, the product of extensive and rigorous research, are now not allowed to circulate freely in classrooms and across the UT campus.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An enraging story about what look like UT's efforts to kowtow to powerful conservatives. “I ask questions that maybe someone in a position of power might disagree with. … We ask these questions because we’re trying to get at what is the truth,” Chaar López said. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
statesman.com
UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 27/04/2026
Opinion | How Not to Talk About Your Colleagues in Texas and Florida We’re not fighting a lost cause. By Ben Wright: bit.ly/41Z4Xi1 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
A stylized map of Texas, drawn in the color red.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This Earth Day, AFT and @aaup.org called on TIAA to divest from the fossil fuel industry and instead reinvest funds in renewable energy and climate solutions. Our call for divestment is both out of financial prudence and a commitment to the public good. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...
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AAUP, AFT Call on TIAA to Divest from Fossil Fuels
On Earth Day, the presidents of the AAUP and the AFT wrote to TIAA to request a meeting regarding TIAA’s continued investments in fossil fuel companies.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
statesman.com
Students can solve controversial problems. UT must trust them to do so | Opinion
A vague proposed policy on “controversial topics” risks narrowing what students can learn at the University of Texas, David Gray Widder writes.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
aaup-utaustin.org/2025/11/03/p... Our press release on UT’s new academic integrity statement.
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Press Release: AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UT’s “Statement on Academic Integrity”
Austin, TX November 3, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karma Chávez, 480-586-5848, karmachavez@gmail.com Polly Strong, strongpolly@gmail.com AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UT’s “Sta…
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The claim that UT Austin is depoliticizing education is absurd. Telling faculty what they can & cannot teach, disempowering a world-class faculty, attacking the humanities & skewing the core curriculum towards Western Civ: all forms of politicization. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#astrohistory
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I signed this petition organized by Texas Freedom Network. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/tfn/event/86...
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Teach the Truth: Schools Are for Kids, Not Politics · Texas Freedom Network
Our children’s classrooms have for too long been a battleground in the nation’s political wars. As the State Board of Education overhauls social studies standards for Texas schools in the coming month...
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
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University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell Pr...
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell Pr...
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.mobilize.us/tfn/event/86...
mobilize.us
Teach the Truth: Schools Are for Kids, Not Politics · Texas Freedom Network
Our children’s classrooms have for too long been a battleground in the nation’s political wars. As the State Board of Education overhauls social studies standards for Texas schools in the coming month...
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 25/09/2025
From @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social: Every day that classes are held at the University of Texas at Austin, a procession of students enter Homer Rainey Hall, which houses the Department of French and Italian. How many of them know who Rainey was?
texasobserver.org
Texas History Offers Warnings amid Rash of Faculty Firings
Lessons to learn from the politically motivated firing of a UT president in the 1940s
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Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am honored to have been an NEH fellow last year. As the NEH is now being illegally gutted, with “doge” impounding already-appropriated funds, rescinding already-promised grants, and bullying and censoring staff, I thought I’d look at the language of the statute that established NEH in 1965:
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