I have a chapter on Japan's TVer in this new volume on East Asian platforms and media, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. Lots of great work here by @guobin-yang.bsky.social, @hlynn5.bsky.social, @otomedoctor.bsky.social, and others. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

this exists it is called thinking

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

“There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender,” said another parent. “Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified.”

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

The regressive party strikes again. I don't believe in evil as an entity. But making children suffer needlessly is about the closest thing to evil I know.

This is it. Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans. Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I’m a psychiatry professor, and this is ignorant nonsense. These people should not be in government.

I have a chapter on Japan's TVer in this new volume on East Asian platforms and media, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. Lots of great work here by @guobin-yang.bsky.social, @hlynn5.bsky.social, @otomedoctor.bsky.social, and others. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

HELP (NOT) WANTED offers a powerful, timely exploration of Japan’s persistently restrictive immigration policy—even amid labor shortages and global pressure. #APSA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yeyn293j #PoliticalScience #ImmigrationPolicy #Japan #ComparativePolitics #NationalIdentity

With recognition achieved, we carry forward the strength of our organizing into building a first contract—one that reflects our priorities and protects faculty rights 💪

Amen: “If you’re putting out a report that’s supposed to address how to help our children stay healthier, and you’re not even mentioning the No. 1 cause of childhood deaths, you ought to be embarrassed,” said Bruce Mirken, a spokesperson for Defend Public Health”

they seem to know nothing abt classroom experience & faculty objectives. we don't read texts and nod along, 'yup, that scans'. we challenge them. students come to an unending array of conclusions. they reject some things, accept others. skilled faculty bring that out & don't aim for a single value.

But I've been told students must learn to use GenAI because it's the future of work or something.

Wut

20% of practicing doctors in the United States are immigrants.

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

You don’t say.

As we all know opting to watch YouTube videos is the same thing as learning

“Humans,” who are well known to all learn the same way.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

CSCC @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu has a fantastic lineup of speakers for the fall semester, starting next week with Prof @yanlong-soc.bsky.social 's talk on her award-winning new book! cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

「統計的にみて外国人犯罪はピーク時（2000年代半ば）から大きく減っている」という主張には、「多くの外国人は不起訴になるので、統計に反映されていない」という反論がくる。その反論に関するファクトチェック記事。「刑法犯の起訴率は外国人の方が高い」 ...ということなんだけれども、ファクトチェックをやっている団体が偏っているとか、信用できないとかいう話におそらくなって、「外国人は脅威だ」という認知を強くもつ人を説得するのはやはり難しいと思われる。 www.factcheckcenter.jp/fact-check/p...

Bucky Sheftall talks about his two books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "It’s the moral responsibility of every human being to know what happened on the ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki." bigthink.com/books/hirosh...

AHA member David Blight (Yale Univ.) was interviewed on CNN about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. “They want to try to roll back about 60–70 years of historical scholarship. . . . They call it ‘wokeness.’ We call it good history.” 🗃️

Speaking as a Chinese person, in the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of bribery.

incredible headline

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

This drives me absolutely insane about all the hype + "get on board with AI" mentality that's so pervasive despite *everything we know abt big tech*. We just did a decade of this with social media. It ruined kids lives. Phones are finally being banned in schools. And now we're going round again w AI

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

three people who have no other qualifications than being employed at the ny times sound off on an industry they have zero experience in

The ‘Japan First’ Sanseito releases their own beer, proudly made with imported malts.

参政党公式ビール 燦然と輝く「麦芽(外国製造)」の文字

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse

The free speech administration's Justice Department is investigating professors for writing a note

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Oh man sounds like a really dangerous tool maybe we should regulate it

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Scientists: some of us PLEADED with you two years ago to support colleagues in the humanities who were being attacked by Rufo et al. Many ignored us. NOW that this has all been used as a pretext to attack you too, recognize: THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️

＜問題の根底には、長年の政府の姿勢がある。外国人を人手不足を補う都合のよい「労働力」とみなし、「人間」として向き合うことを避け続けてきた。ともに働き、暮らす人たちを、同じ社会の一員として受け入れていく態勢づくりこそが、政治家の仕事ではないか。＞ （社説）参院選　「優先」と分断の先に　排外主義の台頭を許すな：朝日新聞 www.asahi.com/articles/DA3...

In April, I wrote about how Trump's war on immigrants overlaps with America's population getting much, much older. Italy got to the solution sooner than I think the GOP will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I work in a dept without that many majors but my classes are always full. Humanities professors, in general, make pretty normal middle middle class salaries. So - prices aren't high, demand is high, the idea that there's a problem bc kids take those classes but major somewhere else is made up