You want to read more about the resolutions passed by our national local @local6741.bsky.social ? It's in this month's UNR-NFA email newsletter!

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

“By embarking on a campaign of censorship, Texas A&M has abdicated its responsibility to support students’ right to learn & faculty’s right to teach. A university that censors Plato & other texts abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, & the public trust.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president 5

AAUP President Todd Wolfson: An Institution That Censors Plato is Not a Serious Institution of Higher Learning

Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or ge...

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This is huge. 🔥 That this happened in Michigan makes it mean so much more—it truly represents a seismic shift in democratic politics. And very proud that my union, @aaup.org , took the extraordinarily courageous step on endorsing @abdulelsayed.bsky.social last week! bsky.app/profile/aaup...

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 9h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Fighting off an extremely well funded campaign by corporate democrats, @aaup.org-endorsed Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins in closely watched Michigan Senate primary race! It is time to get money out of politics and make higher ed free for all!

Working Families Party 🐺@workingfamilies.org · 9h ago

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social has won his primary election for Senate in Michigan. He went up against record amounts of dark money. He won anyway because he stayed locked in on what Michiganders' actually need: a government that answers to you instead of billionaires.

“This plan raises profound concerns about the future of publicly funded science. It does nothing to make anyone healthier or safer, and it isn’t what Americans want.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicsky

Trump wants smarter computers, dumber people | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the Gen Z revolution takes on India.

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Question is: what is the most effective way to stop this? The answer: organize and unionize with your colleagues! Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.

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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.

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AAUP@aaup.org · last wk.

Trump is waging a “Khmer Rouge-esque war on American science & intellectual achievement writ large,” escalating the climate crisis while systematically gutting the research needed to predict, mitigate, & survive it. #academicsky

"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

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Trump & his allies proposed a rule to put political appointees in charge of federal grant funding - a move that could slow or stop the scientific & medical research we depend on to stay healthy. Tell your senators: Reject this rule ASAP. actionnetwork.org/letters/omb-... @aaup.org

Protect science & innovation from political interference

Scientific research is already facing setbacks as this administration tries to gain leverage over independent scientists. Now, President Donald Trump and his allies have proposed a rule to put their p...

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@utaustin.bsky.social, where merit and peer review don't matter. "Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled" Ivan Chaar Lopez on being denied tenure despite strong department and referee support www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... Academic Freedom letter to sign 👇

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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“Genuine intellectual diversity requires time for reflection, institutional independence, historical depth, ethical questioning, & the freedom to pursue research unconstrained by immediate market demands. These conditions cannot flourish where knowledge itself has become increasingly commodified.”

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

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Question is: what is the most effective way to stop this? The answer: organize and unionize with your colleagues! Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.

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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.

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AAUP@aaup.org · last wk.

Trump is waging a “Khmer Rouge-esque war on American science & intellectual achievement writ large,” escalating the climate crisis while systematically gutting the research needed to predict, mitigate, & survive it. #academicsky

New #RaceClass Podcast is out. We dive into Texas GOP's assault on its own universities. Lots of tactics, strategies & people(!) plucked straight from DeSantis' own effort to resegregate & undermine Florida's once heralded institutions. soundcloud.com/user-8088721...

Ep. 66 | Why Education Scares Texas' GOP

Why is Texas' GOP so scared to educate their own students? Jon & Arnie discuss the rising repression across Texas' public universities. The Texas state legislature, with help from handpicked rightwing

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Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's come to this. The people are standing up to protect Texas' public universities from their own administrators & government. *People’s Hearing on Protecting Ethnic and Women’s and Gender Studies in Texas Higher Education* Wednesday, August 12, 2026 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Be sure to check out this incredible recap thread from @local6741.bsky.social on the @aaup.org advocacy chapters' participation at the @aft.org convention! Amazing stuff, ya'll.

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

Be sure to read this if you haven't already!

AAUP@aaup.org · 2w ago

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

When we fight, we win! 6741 member Dan Greene has seen the incredible power of organizing in action, and you can too. Visit our website today to join, and stay tuned for organizing resources and trainings to help you get started! @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social @dmgreene.bsky.social @aft.org

"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org

Yes sir! True story. We have indeed doubled in size from 10K to 20K in last two years. Thank you to the support of @afthighered.bsky.social , @aaup.org , and @aft.org! And most of all, thank you to our members who are coming together to organize their colleagues.

AFT Higher Education@afthighered.bsky.social · 2w ago

AAUP’s @local6741.bsky.social has nearly doubled in size, and they continue to expand their reach across various colleges and universities.

organize, plan, propose -- we do not need NLRB recognition or a collective bargaining agreement (CBA/contract). organize!!!!!!

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org

Yes sir! True story. We have indeed doubled in size from 10K to 20K in last two years. Thank you to the support of @afthighered.bsky.social , @aaup.org , and @aft.org! And most of all, thank you to our members who are coming together to organize their colleagues.

AFT Higher Education@afthighered.bsky.social · 2w ago

AAUP’s @local6741.bsky.social has nearly doubled in size, and they continue to expand their reach across various colleges and universities.

AAUP’s @local6741.bsky.social has nearly doubled in size, and they continue to expand their reach across various colleges and universities.

Brilliant 🧵! Now, how do we get serious about fighting this? Gotta organize & UNIONIZE our academic colleagues! The power we as organized labor can exert on the economic & political system is far greater than shallow mobilization efforts. Join @aaup.org: www.aaup.org/join Get organizing!

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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Woot woot! @nfaatunr.bsky.social in the house! Get to know them below & give them a follow.

NFA at UNR@nfaatunr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alright friends, we've been on Bluesky a bit, time to tell you who we are! First, we're the Nevada Faculty Alliance at the University of Nevada, Reno, the independent voice of the faculty. We represent our members at the local, state, and national level together with @aaup.org and @aft.org

Alright friends, we've been on Bluesky a bit, time to tell you who we are! First, we're the Nevada Faculty Alliance at the University of Nevada, Reno, the independent voice of the faculty. We represent our members at the local, state, and national level together with @aaup.org and @aft.org

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United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

Trump has called the decades of peer-reviewed climate science that guides the NAS manual for judges "fraudulent." He has repeatedly tried to discredit the science behind climate change, because his big oil and gas donors are responsible for accelerating it. 🧵

"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org

Power up with @local6741.bsky.social !!

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

Great examples of academic workers organizing and winning *before* formal union recognition. Don’t wait for permission or recognition from the state or employer. When people recognize the union as their own, that’s the basis of power

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

When we fight, we win! 6741 member Dan Greene has seen the incredible power of organizing in action, and you can too. Visit our website today to join, and stay tuned for organizing resources and trainings to help you get started! @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social @dmgreene.bsky.social @aft.org

Wait, what?!?! Who is this? He looks familiar. Oh yeah, that's just our amazing VP @dmgreene.bsky.social dropping some powerful organizing knowledge about pre-contract union organizing on ya'll, using some inspiring examples from our work here—in our pre-contract union!—at UMD!

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

And how do you operationalize this pre-contract unionism model? We got a video by @dmgreene.bsky.social for that too: bsky.app/profile/loca...