Committee for Academic Freedom

@ComAcFreedom

The law has changed. The culture hasn’t. Exposing threats to academic freedom in UK universities — and pushing institutions to meet their free-speech duties.

6 166Followers

616Following

1 944Posts total

122.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views8 481this account2 112median for under 10K

Reach, %137.54%this account157.00%median for under 10K

Engagement, %3.83%this account1.62%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 481	2 112	4.02×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	137.54%	157.00%	0.88×
Engagement rate	3.83%	1.62%	2.37×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

110.4K2 Sep

8.5K

3.3K

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.23%2 Sep

3.83%

5.06%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.62%.

What the audience does

Likes73.3%1 494 in total

Reposts13.7%279 in total

Replies2.2%44 in total

Quotes1.5%30 in total

Bookmarks9.3%190 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@ComAcFreedom I organise an interdisciplinary conference and have an edited collection underway based on this conference. Someone spotted I'd signed this letter and I have since been publicly accused of being racist, 'far right' and a bigot. People have withdrawn from both on acc 3.3K views · 153 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

2/2 CAF is also taking action over press reporting which has helped erase what we had rather hoped was the elementary distinction between defending someone’s academic freedom and endorsing their substantive views. The National, for instance, named eight Scottish academics and ht 8.5K views · 286 likes · 32 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

🧵1/2 Something very worrying has been happening since controversy erupted over the open letter signed by more than 950 academics raising academic-freedom concerns about disciplinary proceedings against Dr Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University. Cofnas, a philosopher who describes htt 110.4K views · 1.1K likes · 241 reposts · 32 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →