When, last year, Vision Objects was developing software to recognize Arabic handwriting, they called on academic linguists.
A trio of groups last week launched Create Change, a take-no-prisoners Web site that calls on academics to "reclaim scholarly communication" by doing everything from refusing to referee for high-price for-profit journals to starting their own low-cost competitors.
Eighteen Nobel laureates have written an open letter calling on Saudi academics to condemn the flogging.
Unless the management backs down, the union is likely to call on academic colleagues worldwide to boycott the university.
The LSE said in statement that the government regularly called on its academics for advice, adding: "We believe our academics, including non-UK nationals, have hugely valuable expertise which will be vital in this time of uncertainty around the UK's relationship with Europe and the rest of the world.
Mr. Kittas, who was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday after recovering from a heart attack, called on fellow academics and politicians to tackle the problem on campuses.
The AUT has held an online vote of no confidence in the university's management, called on other academics to boycott working with the university and even nominated Prof Schwartz as the country's worst boss as part of a Channel 4 series.
Another of the many rules was that, with the rarest of exceptions, the programme called on three teaching academics.
We call on international academics visiting Israeli institutions of higher education, and Israeli academics visiting foreign institutions, to make clear their objection to the continued Israeli occupation.
Both link to a section on the AUT's website dedicated to the union's "greylisting" of the university, which calls on other academics to boycott the university.
