Academics' letter in Guardian

GC I remember your thread. I appreciate how personally difficult and potentially livelihood-threatening going public on this issue will have felt for you and the other signatories working in this environment. Every signature means a great deal to me as someone who is silenced at work. Thank you all for your bravery.

Well done GC. Young people desperately need people like you, it's been devastating to see the shut down of critical thinking within places of learning

Thank you

thank you 🙏

Thank you GC and all the signatories - lurkers / participants or not! As PP have said, great to see this finally making headway in the Guardian.

One of my old lecturers is on there too - but I assumed she would be. I’m glad the fight goes on. The Academy is not a safe space for gc women currently. Kudos for your courage, all.

Thank you GCAcademic and all the other signatories. It was heartening scrolling down the list.

I emailed the only academic from my old university to say thank you and got a reply straight away saying how heartening it was to receive my email. So it's definitely worth emailing individual academics on the list. I also copied in a tutor from my old department to spread the word and hopefully increase support.

Thank you for this, putting your name to this is hard to do. I need to be braver about this in RL, not that I work in academia.

Thank you to GC and all the signatories. You are brave and strong. This letter will really help.

This letter is brilliant thank you so much xxx

I'm quite new to this area but I have been starting to get really frightened, particularly today reading that MPs going into the FPFW meeting were so frightened they asked for their names to be kept private. What the actual fuck? This whole thing is so fascistic I feel like I'm going mad

Very pleased to see this together with the letter printed earlier in The Observer.

Really good to hear that lots of students are not on board but a sad sign of the times that they along with academics, politicians and, oh, women in general are being bullied and silenced.

Dare we feel hopeful that the tide really is turning?

Thanks GC. It lifted my spirits to read this letter and see the amazing list of signatories.

A reasonable, intelligent, well-written letter signed by both men and women.

I can't believe the Guardian printed it!

Actually reading this has really scared me what powers lie behind this

Standing up and cheering loudly. Great letter. Amazing. I just finished filling out the consultation online tonight. I’m so fed up of this nonsense. Thank you.

Wow that's amazing

Thank you all.

Any support would, I'm sure, be greatly appreciated, as there will no doubt be some backlash. I have pre-emptively told my boss, senior management and Comms person about the letter so they're not on the back foot when complaints come in.

Some of you have asked about the network, I'll PM you tomorrow as I'm a bit tired now.

Thank you GC. Sometimes I think there's not a lot I can do, so I am planning on sending a note of thanks to the only academic from my uni who has signed, and a letter supporting her/ thanking the uni for supporting her to her faculty. Might be a nice thing for a few of us to do?

Thank you so much GC and all the signatories.

Thank you GC for your courage and integrity.

It troubles me that academics from the natural sciences are poorly represented. Maybe it is time to approach those academics as many such as myself are deeply horrified that our language is being misused for ideological and political purposes. Misuse of language includes words such as:

Cis is a term used in chemistry and is defined scientifically as: denoting or relating to a molecular structure in which two particular atoms or groups lie on the same side of a given plane in the molecule, in particular denoting an isomer in which substituents at opposite ends of a carbon–carbon double bond are on the same side of the bond.

Asexual is biological term use to define: Asexual reproduction only needs one parent, unlike sexual reproduction, which needs two parents. Since there is only one parent, there is no fusion of gametes and no mixing of genetic information. As a result, the offspring are genetically identical to the parent and to each other: in other words, they are clones. Homo sapiens are not asexual as we used sexual reproduction as our means of propagating the species.

As a scientist I find it distinctly disturbing that our language is being misused in this way.

Just emailed my lecturer to thank her, I hope the universities support their staff.

Fantastic to see - and in the Guardian! - thank you so much for speaking out, GC, and all your fellow academics.

I am another one attempting to get started as an Early career researcher. I looked specifically at gender in my PhD, so have been extremely concerned about the way most university departments seem to be going.

It is heartening at both a personal level and at the level of women as a class, to find academics speaking out. @GCAcademic is there a way of getting in touch with this network of gc academics?