Finally! Some good news!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Wait?! What??! This is THE VET!!?! 💉👨‍⚕️🩺

In collaboration with the Department of Economics, we are hosting Indonesian economist Muhamad Chatib Basri, former Minister of Finance for Indonesia and current visiting scholar at Harvard Center for International Development: news.uark.edu/articles/808...

I voted in the open primary in Arkansas. Only my second time voting as a a new American citizen.

RIP Mong Dynasty. fayettevilleflyer.com/2026/02/25/l...

Actually, yes. The IRS still hasn't processed my taxes from last year and they owe me $3500.

My very smart friend Jonas Nahm wrote a very good op-ed: “China Automates While America Hesitates” (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

But will Einstein write my lectures and do all my grading? That would really free up my time.

LOVE it when students demand a meeting with me and then ghost 👻 me.

Big thanks to Kelly Hammond and @ruslanyn.bsky.social for hosting me for a talk on Party’s Interests at University of Arkansas!

The best part about working from home is that you can eat nachos in your pajamas for lunch and you don’t have to make small talk with your colleagues.

Have an Econ and International Studies student working on an undergrad thesis titled: "Infrastructures of Control: the PRC Party-state and the Diffusion of Surveillance Technology to the Global South." He's an incredible data miner and cruncher. Happy to share once he defends. 🤓

Reading an anecdotal story about Chiang Kai-shek clearing a high-level military meeting with a loud and stinky fart. Sounds too familiar to giggle.

I'm on campus. there is no one else on campus. it's a frozen ghost campus.

A really favorable review of the edited volume that I contributed to last year called "The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives." networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Wrote close to 7000 words this week about Bai Chongxi's Northern Expedition. Time for a break.

Grinch toes.

Maybe now Andy Reid will be available to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks to victory.

A little light reading for the break….

It's my last day of teaching until August 2026 and I feel frreeeeeeeeeee!!! FREEE! (I have a fellowship in the Spring 2026 to finish my book about Bai Chongxi.)

Dino and his cousin Bernie. A bromance for the ages. Love at first sight.

"Mean Spirit" by Linda Hogan is *the best* novel I've read this year. (I'm approaching 50 novels so far this year.) Highly recommend.

Gluten free cranberry custard tart (hazelnut and rice flour crust). Get the elastic waist pants prepared, friends.

TIRED: entrusting university academic integrity offices with investigating alleged student use of ChatGPT WIRED: bringing the Inquisition in

Oh! This looks great--just got my library to order. 🤓📚 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/mother...

Taking in Fall. Happy doggos.

I have an adult student from Japan who is completing an undergrad in English--kudos to him. We were chatting yesterday and he was telling me about how much free time he has and how all the 20 year olds who complain about being "so busy" all the time have no idea what's coming for them--i.e. life.

I'm "you're gonna need progressive lenses" years old... 😱

We had a guest cancel their visit to campus because of flight chaos. It’s like a bonus day! I wrote four reference letters for students heading off into the world and finished reviewing a book ms for a press. 📋✅

Just two besties snuggling up on a cold day.

I thought we all agreed during Covid that sending your students to interview other professors as an assignment is downright RUDE.

At “Public Intellectuals and State Power in Twentieth-Century China,” at the Southwest AAS conference at Texas A&M San Antonio. @asianstudies.org

I've got my Louisiana in-laws rooting for the Jays. 😂

Whoa. www.thewirechina.com/2025/10/26/c...

I need blood pressure meds to get me through the rest of this World Series.

Dino's been a Jays fan since he was a wee lad.

Go JAYS!

Took my students to Special Collections to work with archives today. 🤓📜

Fergie got a new bed because the cat stole her other one. She wanted to show you all how much she loves being cozy.

My graduate student just told that I should get some rest and that I look tired. 😑

I was on the selection committee for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize (History). I am SO HAPPY that the winner is Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's AMAZING book "Archipelago of Resettlement Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine." 🎉👍 www.acls.org/2025-acls-op...

The Blue Jays and Mariners both joined the MLB in 1977 and they’ve never met in the playoffs before (besides in 2022 when mariners swept them in wildcard). GO JAYS!

🎉👍 Big congrats to David Tobin, Tim Grose and Emily Upson on their ACLS China Studies Collaborative Research Grant, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond." www.acls.org/recent-fello...

Guys, I'm exhausted.

Best thing I've seen all week.

Made a lasagna (pasta included) from scratch. Garfield would be proud.

Bai Chongxi meets with an African delegate in Taipei for the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League Conference.

I'm sure people in OK are devastated. What a chump. www.koco.com/article/ryan...

I bet there is at least one H1B holder in every department in every college at my university. As an immigrant who is now a dual Canadian and American citizen, I can't imagine the needless stress and anxiety these faculty members are facing right now.