SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China." latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

Save the Date! Remember that our 4th APSG Summer Conference will take place June 15-16, 2026 at @qmulsse.bsky.social with support from the @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social. Put it in your calendars and stay tunned for the Call for Papers!

Das Projekt #ZumFeindGemacht steht vor dem Aus, weil die Förderung der Bundesministeriums der Finanzen nicht fortgeführt wird. Trotz intensiver Bemühungen konnte bislang keine neue Förderung gefunden werden. Deshalb versucht das sehr engagierte Team hinter dem Projekt es jetzt mit Crowdfunding. 1/2

Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter) jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456

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Science Bluesky, I need a question answered that is not yielding to Google! Can you carbon-14 date an alien? Because I know it requires nitrogen-14 in the upper atmosphere and if the alien homeworld doesn’t have the same nitrogen content…?

Just want to point out that this one little square (Employment-Based Immigration Law) is one of the most bureaucratically baroque and difficult things I've encountered in the law. Makes "closing on a real estate deal" look like napkin math.

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Especially his ads in various languages have had me wondering if Berlin will ever have a (candidate for) mayor like Mamdani, who tries to speak to all parts of the city in so many different ways.

Especially his ads in various languages have had me wondering if Berlin will ever have a (candidate for) mayor like Mamdani, who tries to speak to all parts of the city in so many different ways.

Berlin und Laura? Ein Traumpaar! Leider hat der Berliner Wohnungsmarkt da andere Pläne. Ich suche dringend eine Wohnung, 2–3 Zimmer, max. 850 € warm und idealerweise in Neukölln (aber Hauptsache im Ring). Ich kann flexibel umziehen, bin ruhig und liebe Ruhe (arbeite von zuhause aus). Gerne Repost 💚

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally. The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

Another insanely cruel move by Trump et al. Literally all the automatic extension did was extend your current work auth if yours expired WHILE YOU WAITED FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PROCESS YOUR RENEWAL. And you don't just lose work auth: I couldn't even renew my driver's license while mine was pending.

There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton. Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...

People are always surprised I cannot just go get a service job or let people know I am available to freelance. The terms of my TN visa meant I can't even get paid scholarship money to attend conferences or do class talks. I also cannot leave the country to grieve my layoff somewhere else.

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! 📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM 💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads) For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

Please apply to postdoc with us at Northwestern/Kellogg. This position in the Dispute Resolution Research Center is a terrific opportunity.

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

If you are working at a university in the US or the UK, can you ask the admissions office to stop requesting TOEFL scores from Singapore-educated students? I just heard from one of our most competent MA graduates that they have to submit TOEFL scores to UK/US graduate schools. I was in shock.

Mamdani: "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as every other New Yorker. And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive. No more."

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

#FundSocSci Informational workshop coming up www.irp.wisc.edu/2026-graduat...

Twentieth-century US history job at Cambridge. Closing date for applications is October 27 (next Monday!) www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Das ist für mich ein Kennzeichen wahren gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts. Dass wir es schaffen, da wo es darauf ankommt, ein System zu bauen, wo Geld - zumindest in einem bestimmten Rahmen -, nicht mehr über die Würde & das Leben eines Menschen entscheidet. Wünsche mir mehr davon. Und nicht weniger.🤝

Die Töchtergeneration hat verstanden was das für ein rassistischer und sexistischer Unsinn ist. Sie wenden sich deshalb ab von dieser reaktionär-chauvinistischen Politik. Es wäre tatsächlich gut wenn mehr Menschen jungen Frauen zuhören würden, anstatt sie nur als Projektionsfläche zu verwenden.

apropos junge Frauen in Städten

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

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Eastern Taiwan's ill-fated Taroko Gorge is under evacuation orders due to a landslide barrier lake that formed today (8/17). The debris is 25 meters tall and as you can see in the attached photo of the Swallow's Grotto (via the national parl FB page), water levels were already high this afternoon.

If you do not live in any of those places, I'm also doing a virtual book event alongside @charliejane.bsky.social and M. M. Olivas! It's on Nov 12 and you can RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

"Westalgie", also das Herbeifantasieren und Idealisieren einer Vergangenheit, die es so nie gegeben hat, die aber zum Bezugspunkt der Sehnsüchte wird. Die beschreibt Frank Trentmann in seinem aktuellen Buch bezogen auf die Politik - und ich finde nichts beschreibt Friedrich Merz besser.

Would you like to potentially host a Summer 2026 MLIS student for a 150 hour for-credit practicum placement? It is particularly difficult to find online options for students who are interested in gaining more library/cultural heritage work experience. Let me know if you have ideas! 📚📜

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt. This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

Only a few days left to apply for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit: pomeps.org/call-for-app...

Join our team! ⭐ The IES is hiring a Program Coordinator Support innovative research and teaching on contemporary and historical Europe, the European Union, and transatlantic relations. 🔗For more information about the role see the link below careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...

Are you an adjunct or VAP? Someone who works in history but outside academia? Check out this call for papers!

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0 #ShareGoodNewsToo

📢 Call for Papers — 5th Political Economy Working Group Workshop 🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles The workshop is divided into two parts: Morning: PhD research presentations. Afternoon: open to all, concluding with @benbraun.bsky.social. Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025 All details below:

While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

The only reason I have relatives in Philly is 100% b/c my grandaddy’s brother whistled @ a white woman. He fled Alabama hopping a train & didnt get off until Philly for fear of getting lynched. And instead the Klan nearly lynched our family in retaliation for *that!* I am (1) generation from that.

Hands down my favorite thing about #APSA25 was how many friends and friends of friends had freshly published books that were being promoted in the exhibition hall 🥰

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Two things: First, and notably, he says his wife was cleared by US Customs and Immigration pre-check in Ireland and then arrested upon arrival in Chicago. People were questioning whether this would be a safe way to avoid detainment and, guess not.