I'm unironically so excited for this panel! There's gonna be some very cool papers (& then there's gonna be me being a nerd about government computing projects in 1980s China)

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AAS Vancouver 2026: Will be presenting at the panel "People's Republic of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Classification and Personnel in the Chinese State" Saturday 10:30-12 at VCC Room 220. With @mt-b.bsky.social @ktai.bsky.social Yi Lu, Juan Wang and Daniel Leese as discussants. See you there!

I'm unironically so excited for this panel! There's gonna be some very cool papers (& then there's gonna be me being a nerd about government computing projects in 1980s China)

I’ve been looking at National Parks material flagged for review and flipping through my collection of historical brochures and textbooks. I’m trying to transform my frustration into an article. We cannot go backwards. 🗃️

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

if you're in taipei, come join @thinkpanzer.bsky.social and me for a chat on how to improve journalist safety. it's the first event im organising as a newly minted prof at the graduate institute of journalism at national taiwan university. register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student at Ellis Prep academy, was kidnapped by ICE in May and has been detained since. "The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Neue Studie: Linke sind die stabilsten Demokrat*innen die das Land hat. Bei Rechten aber auch in der "bürgerlichen Mitte" finden sich hingegen neben antidemokratischen auch ein höherer Antisemitismus. Wow, ist ja wirklich ganz was anderes als seit Jahren in Zeitungen steht. 1/ taz.de/Ergebnisse-d...

This is such a fascinating point and I decided to see if the data exists, and apparently the USDA has tracked equine populations on farms since the 1850s. The US equine population peaked at 25 million in the 1920s then fell to a low of 2.1 million in 1992 (it’s since rebounded to ~4 million).

Ich würde sagen, dass das relevante Informationen für aktuelle Debatten in Deutschland wären - aber das würde natürlich voraussetzen, dass Gesetze hier mit Blick auf empirische Grundlagen gemacht werden, und na ja 🤷🏻

Despite all the chatter, social media bans for teens lack evidence! New paper out in Nature Health. (1) Harms from social media are real & serious. (2) We need regulatory action but bans are not nuanced, do not empower youth, & are not supported by evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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**CALL FOR PAPERS** LSE–NYU Conference 2026 Making States Work: Capacity, Accountability and Economic Foundations. If you are interested in presenting a paper related to these themes 🗓 Deadline: 6 March More details and how to submit your paper 🔽 sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

thrilled to announce i’m doing a mini-crossword residency at @puzzmo.com all month! 28 tiny crosswords, one each day of february. i’ll thread them here, first up is CROSSOVER EVENT www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

Folks! Tell your (cis) friends to drop the NYT and why. These collective actions *do* matter. Cancel that subscription, today (if you haven't yet), make clear why. This is a boycott. The point is: Punish this evil behavior, this committed fanning of the flames of the genocide against trans people.

here's a helpful thread if you're wondering why, even in this bleached media environment, i'm pushing for the NYT's starvation OR AT LEAST near-starvation moral transcendence bsky.app/profile/sand...

Wenn das ein "Angriff" ist, wie nennt man dann diejenigen, die sich derart angreifbar machen? Das kommt dabei heraus, wenn man "Technologieoffenheit" zum Mantra macht. Wie wäre es mit einer eigenen strategischen Ausrichtung Europas, statt sich über industriepolitische Initiativen Chinas aufzuregen?

Berührender Nachruf von @yagmurekimcay.bsky.social auf Ibrahim Akkuş, der zuletzt an den Folgen des #Hanau Attentats starb. "Ich bin in meinem Leben nur dem Schmerz begegnet", sagte der 70-Jährige vor seinem Tod. "Ich wünsche mir, dass Menschen einander nicht töten." taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

so I got Final Draft running on the Macintosh SE I picked up at this weekend’s SoCal Vintage Computer Festival. I can now write a screenplay on the SE and save it to my modern Mac with the floppy disk adapter I have, open the file in modern final draft, and submit it for work

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

I see a lot of people saying "I hope she sues" and she can do whatever she wants and most of all, I hope she lives her life. I hope she finds plenty of moments of beauty. I hope she gets to snuggle her cat in the mornings and breathe.

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For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The interface of the Taiwan cross-database archival search website got a full revamp in the wake of the opening of the new National Archives -nice! Now if so could fix the zillion 國家寶藏基金會 results that have been coming up for years no matter the keyword that would be amazing 😅 across.archives.gov.tw

Today's XKCD is a good way to explain to anglophone/US folks how the meaning of a chengyu works.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

You only have until Sunday left to get your abstracts in 👇

🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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#ICYMI: Ruth Oldenziel, editor-in-chief of Technology & Culture (@shothisttech.bsky.social's flagship journal), will be speaking w/CHSTM's History of Tech. working group tomorrow (Jan. 27) from 1:00 to 2:30 PM, EST. Please join us! www.chstm.org/group/histor... #histSTM #histtech #publishing 🗃️📜⚙️

A request from "Mother Bhumi"'s cinematographer.

Bitte bitte bitte teilt das nochmal. Markiert alle Leute, die ihr in Berlin kennt. Solange ich zu irgendeiner S-Bahn komme, ist mir die Lage inzwischen quasi egal. Ich muss einfach endlich was finden 😭

Die Tage ist ein Trailer zu Mischkes neuer Doku "German Guilt" in mein insta-Feed gerutscht - und ich hatte instant ein extremes Gefühl von Unwohlsein. Nicht wegen Mischke, sondern wegen der Art und Weise der Darstellung. Zum Glück hat sich Heike Hupertz für die FAZ den 3Teiler schon angesehen 1/2

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Ibrahim Akkuş wollte, dass seine Geschichte gehört wird Ich hoffe dieser Nachruf kann ein wenig dazu beitragen. taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...

Our PhD call is open. Get in touch if interested in doing a PhD on democratization and/or autocratic politics (largely defined) in an inferential/positivist empirical framework. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB848/p...

Review of Dafydd Fell's new book on Taiwan's remarkable sugar railway system: 'Within a few years..., the lines began carrying commercial freight and passengers, eventually evolving into a dense, interconnected network that spanned the western plains.' www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

pieces of this are straight ont the syllabus (or recommended background). still reading. mitpress.mit.edu/978191302999...

Chinasky, since it's the time of the year to make reading lists (for myself & for teaching): what's some writing on science and technology in China from the last few years that really stuck with you, changed how think, or that you immediately thought "this should go in any China S&T syllabus"?

China has put out draft measures on human-like interactive AI services (chatbots etc.) We'll get a working translation and some analysis soon, but these rules will set the standard of responsibility for inducing user suicidal ideation, dependancy, etc. www.chinalawtranslate.com/chatbot-meas...

Congratulations to our respected colleague Bari Weiss on finally becoming a real journalist.

Different age, but I found it to be a fascinating debunking of CCP talking points that Confucian-trained officials weren’t innovative.

had a really good convo about Darren Byler's work in a seminar last month! www.dukeupress.edu/terror-capit...

It might not fully fit your bill, and is already becoming dated (he has newer stuff) but a rare look at regulation of tech in China from the point of view of those most impacted by it.. users. Including gig workers and in-platform businesses.