When everyone knows but no one speaks: The silence that sustains Academic Bullying

How many people must know that someone is being bullied before silence itself becomes part of the abuse?

If postgraduate students quietly warn one another about certain supervisors, if early-career academics discreetly advise colleagues to avoid particular professors, if administrative staff witness repeated episodes of intimidation, and if university leaders have heard the same stories for years, can anyone honestly claim that academic bullying is a hidden problem?

Or is the more uncomfortable truth that, within many universities across the globe, we have become remarkably skilled at pretending not to see what everyone already knows? ...