This is so problematic. Creating big-money grants (7m EUR!) is such a travesty. Instead of funding 1 researcher, why not fund 25 with smaller grants? It would create more ideas, secure more careers, and create so much more innovative knowledge. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Pretty sick font on this title page. < 1926 朝鮮満洲旅行案内 @ resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB000399A00...

Ich präsentiere Figure 1 aus einem Paper mit dem Titel "Bridging the gap: explainable ai (sic) for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP". Veröffentlicht in Nature (!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Die Welt steht echt nimma lang. Alles wird zu Slop.

Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close. It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.

Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...

We're entering the last week of my Humanities in the Age of AI course, and I ended up completely revising the last five weeks of assignments to take advantage of Claude Code's new web version and emphasize the growing non-code uses of agents. Final version is here: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

Nice post on Online Teaching Resources on Shinto at @digitalorientalist.bsky.social digitalorientalist.com/2025/11/07/o...

In the grand scheme of things this particular consideration may be small beans, but: this is going to kill faculty recruitment and retention. Even if it is reversed, no one will want to teach at a place that does this. It does a permanent disservice to the students and people of Texas.

Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin

Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old “Chinese Literature” journal thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and table with pinyin/hanzi versions of some the authors. froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature

"Technology is the active human interface with the material world". I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??

Afternoon walk by Deil's Caldron near Comrie. #scotland

This is an incredible project. Zooming in on my current home of Chester it shows how the current main streets run right overtop the route of the old Roman roads (I expect the offset is due to the map, not the terrain)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/b... "In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong... Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."

interesting looking study of South Korean protest techniques. www.amazon.com/Against-Aban...

This will be out soon and I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say it is the most important contribution to the history of the Zainichi Korean community in Japan so far. Fantastic work. #japan #korea

Really appreciate the Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for organizing this Issco conference, met so many distinguished scholars, what a great two days experience!

Come hang out next year! #medievalsky

Fantastic resource for 18thC historians!

某国の暴力的で無秩序な移民逮捕やそれに対する周辺住民の抵抗の動画がたくさん流れてきて心を痛める日々だけれども。。。 日本も1947年から1961年の間に182,700人の在日朝鮮人を逮捕、強制送還したってこと忘れがち。1952年までは日本国籍があったにも関わらず。

It seems unreal after so many years in preparation, but my Hobsbawm book is almost there! It now has a front cover and a place on the publisher's website. Publication is due in August. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

Really excited to see our new issue of Current Research in Digital History with articles on topic models, event extraction modeling, network visualizations, maps, visualizing art, and computational analysis on congressional roll call votes.

#China #UK #universities #Uyghur #Uighur #censorship Human rights research halted after pressure from China Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities via AmyHawkins www.theguardian.com/education/20...

extraordinary, contemptible cowardice from @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social , directed against one of their own staff on behalf of the Chinese government.

テッサ・モリスースズキ先生による、ラムザイヤー氏の在日コリアンに関する論文 (Social Capital and the Problems of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan) の徹底的な反論とファクトチェックです。ラムザイヤー氏の元論文はThe European Journal of Law and Economicという学術誌のオンライン版に2021月2月に発表されたものでした。 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

👇 @johndelury.bsky.social @brianhioe.bsky.social @xunlingau.bsky.social

ESPERANTO WA DAME! 😅 Reason no. 3 why Esperanto won't succeed, according to Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) in 1905? -- Because the pronunciation of carnivorous and herbivorous people will naturally diverge. 🧐🤔

With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature

My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.

Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Afternoon walk along Cramond Beach #scotland

It's 1997. Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid. Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"

I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - froginawell.net/frog/sources...

Huge show of Northern lights over Stavanger! Including green bands behind the telecom tower that is lit up in pink lights for breast cancer awareness.

Added another 80 images over the last two days, bringing the total collection to 385 historical photographs of all kinds of reading acts in twentieth-century China: chinareading.wordpress.com

I don't think it really matters that much which orthography one uses, as long as it is used consistently. The big problem in Taiwan is that it is still a mishmash of at least 5 of these systems. But there are some things I wish people did keep in mind:

I just saw that there are some lovely reviews of Ghosts Behind Glass based on the NetGalley pdf over on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show... Some samples :

To think I lived my life without having deployed the fantastic excuse of "illness and misadventure" www.theguardian.com/australia...

Wow, this is super interesting! I‘m always fascinated by different annotation systems people come up with. While my annotations are rather tame (lines, brackets, circles, notes, some “code” letters here and there,…) I’ve come across some WILD note-taking!

How did U.S.-led aid transform Taiwan's forests from a site of natural riches to a problem to be solved? 🌳 Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia seminar series for this upcoming talk by historian and geographer Kuang-chi Hung! Zoom: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #envhist 🧪

Found this great illustrated edition of 子不語 (What the Master Didn't Say) from 1914. Printed using lithography, each volume has a few illustrations followed by the text in a compact font. All four volumes are on the @wikimediafoundation.org Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS...

Want to know more about the possibilities of digital text storage & analysis?📚 Explore slides from “Towards a Scalable Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese” by Donald Sturgeon at our 2015 Advancing Digital Scholarship workshop to learn about projects & pipelines! guides.nccjapan.org/2015harvardw...

Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific Live talk details: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhum #envhist

There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks. You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...

After writing 2 essays for @jodemocracy.bsky.social together without meeting in person, Wichuta Teeratanabodee & I finally met yesterday, ahead of sharing a stage tomorrow at an LSE event www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... (she & I are collaborating on a 3rd commentary now, with a 3rd coauthor this time)

JOB for historian in Scotland. NB Closing date = 31 October @standrewshist.bsky.social

CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026), Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands. Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM