The phrase "academic friends" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone's fellow colleagues or peers in an academic setting. For example, "Ella has many academic friends at her university who can help her with her studies."
"I've been accused by academic friends of not having the right dialogue with the art world — not being knowledgeable about what's cool, what's desirable out there right now".
"Throughout I have been extremely touched by his loyalty and interest in somebody who after all could not match his historian and other academic friends," Lustig said.
Later, with the help of various academic friends and neighbors, Dennett learned about psychology, computer programming, linguistics, and artificial intelligence — the disciplines that came to form cognitive science.
The sight of… Short story about incidents surrounding a college professor's winter hunting trip...Michael Ahearn, a college professor, goes hunting with two academic friends from a nearby state… Signed Comment for the Cuba Issue about the Cuban embargo.
McFaul said that his academic friends thought the best outcome would have been a fair election; his friends in Russian political circles thought a Zyuganov victory would be a catastrophe, morally worse than a rigged ballot.
Eine Klostergeschichte, 2 parts (Siegwart, A Tale); and Briefwechsel dreyer akademischer Freunde ("Correspondence of Three Academic Friends")—the first two are considered imitative successors to Goethe's 1774 novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers ("The Sorrows of Young Werther").
Before doing so, I tried the idea out on an academic friend of mine.
"I can't wait for the new series of Mad Men on Sky Atlantic," an academic friend told me recently.
But why, as a (female, academic) friend asked earlier, are these Nobel laureates so frightened by "a bunch of girls"?
An academic friend who counts herself as a devout feminist recently tried to set me up (for the third time).
I was intrigued by an academic friend's comparison of Gregers in this version to Shakespeare's Iago.
