To help scholars and their employers prepare for and respond to intimidation and harassment from outside their institutions, two professors created the Researcher Support Consortium, which was unveiled last week.
Rebekah Tromble, director of George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics, said she created the consortium alongside Kathleen Searles, the Olin D. Johnston Chair of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. Tromble, who’s also an associate professor in George Washington’s School of Media and Public Affairs, said she started the initiative partly “to take my power back” after she was targeted online herself for participating in research on Twitter discourse that was funded by—but not directed by—the social media company.
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