Excited to attend my first Taiwan research symposium this year. Grateful to Professor Chuang Tyng-Ruey 莊庭瑞 for welcoming us to the Research Data Management Workshop 2026 研究資料管理工作坊 at Academia Sinica 中央研究院 today. I'll do my best to live-post: 2026.odw.tw #RDMW2026 🧪

"Our Taiwanese magic is making tuna taste like fried chicken... We wanted to be able to engage in the U.S. market, and we found that fried foods are the way.” (AP) apnews.com/article/fish... 🦑🐡🧪

Ya know a while back a senior microbiologist I was talking with was saying how we absolutely have got to stop saying gut flora because people are gonna think it’s plants and I was like “ha yeah” while thinking “nah come on people know starfish aren’t fish” and ope! he was right.

Who’s picking up?

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

Hong Kong bookstore staff arrested for allegedly selling ‘seditious’ Jimmy Lai biography, broadcaster reports

"Lai Administration Reverses Course on Nuclear Energy" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Very sad. Another promising Star Trek series (after Prodigy) that won't see its conclusion, despite brilliant cast and wonderful world building. (AND YES, DIVERSE REPRESENTATION BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURAL ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE...)🖖 #IDIC

Some Good News as our understanding of science gets a tiny bit closer to a Star Trek future! (After all, as someone once said, it's a long road, getting from there to here... 😉🖖🧪) Via AP: apnews.com/article/cern...

"...journalism students who had trained at the CUC played an important role in shaping media practices in the country — a candid acknowledgment of how deeply Chinese media training has penetrated Ethiopia’s broadcasting establishment." via @jordynhaime.bsky.social: lingua-sinica.org/the-campus-f...

Tomorrow! Join us to hear about the prospects for progressive political parties in Thailand, after election results that led to a conservative resurgence www.facebook.com/events/94771...

Commemorating Nowruz and spring equinox this last week, here's Garra typhlops / mahi-ye kurghar / Iran cave barb for #SundayFishSketch 🦑🐡🧪

Someone said on here that Episodes 1, 2, and 3 hit different in this era of an imperial republic backsliding into fascism so I rewatched them back to back on a plane and, yeah Right down to the sanctioned and targeted mass killing of children

This is how I'm introducing myself at all work and social events going forward

Taipei locals, join us for #CNNTaipei first Wednesdays of each month! Whether you're Taiwan-based or here for a spell or just passing through, come meet fellow freelancers and creatives and communicators. Share seeds for inspiration and collaboration. 歡迎您！

Creative Networking Night is a monthly meetup at Daybreak. Each edition, a member of the community gives a talk. This is followed by a Q&A with the speaker. Following this, attendees are invited on stage one by one to introduce themselves.

Next Creative Networking Night is on april 1st. Come out and meet new people!

"In Stuart Fairchild, Both Han and Indigenous Taiwanese Baseball Fans Get Their Man" by @yangjundah.bsky.social

Join us at the end of the month for the first New Bloom Dance Club! Curious about swing dancing? Come dance with us! Swing dance is a joyful dance that grew out of jazz music in the 1920s–40s, from the African American community in Harlem www.facebook.com/events/15652...

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?

“If you start now taking risks that help you remember this, you may become the kind of person who cannot be pushed around by bullies and autocrats, or manipulated by propaganda, or satisfied by a life lived solely for the sake of self-protection and self-enrichment.”

Emily Tucker is the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. And she is magnificent medium.com/center-on-pr... Remember: “there is something that learning is for, that thinking is for, that work is for, and that you are for, the discovery of which belongs to you.”

Got this beautiful photo of a hawk, I believe a red-tailed hawk but I'm not certain, soaring the thermals today hiking in Missoula. Was so beautiful to watch, was just floating in one spot, made it quite an easy photo for me :)

明天～～～ www.facebook.com/events/15047...

"Others, like Ethiopia which banned gasoline and diesel fueled cars in 2024 to promote electric vehicles, are doubling down on renewables." (AP) apnews.com/article/midd...

Tankies on Taiwan... remind me of another group. They do tend to be more articulate, though.

Taiwan has replaced “Korea” with “South Korea” on residency documents issued to Korean nationals, in a reciprocal move to Seoul’s continued designation of the island state as “China (Taiwan)” on its electronic arrival forms. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03...

POLITICO Europe: EU liberals Renew pitch NATO-style trade pact with Canada, Japan, and South Korea – ‘to deter U.S. President Donald Trump and China from exerting undue pressure on trade partners’

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

U.S. Department of Interior's "compliment" to great reporting by @scattercushion.bsky.social @ashleyharrell.bsky.social 🙃

From Taipei, Taiwan: @newbloommag.net newsletter, March 18, 2026: newbloom.substack.com/p/from-taipe... Special Defense Budget • Countersign • take Cho out to the ballgame • the state of Taiwan Studies • Zero Day Attack • Taiwan History 101: Democratization • Taipei CRIT • Future of Thai Politics

Tomorrow! Calling on all writers! Do you have a short story, poem, zine, chapter of a book, or any other writing that you would like feedback on? Join us for the first meeting of Constructive Reading in Taipei- or CRIT, on Thursday, March 19, 2026 www.facebook.com/events/19704...

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Holy SHIT

Trump relied on unverified intelligence to blame Iran for deadly school strike

Plenty of commentators saying that Honda is making the right move by killing EVs and focusing on hybrids. Short term, that might work out. But the company is killing its long-term prospects in the automotive industry by giving up on two key technologies. techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/h...

Bugs delivering drugs www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #sciencenews

Thanks, Ben!

Another new #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 species! Introducing Crossorhombus pescadores 澎湖纓鮃，a tiny left-eye flounder from the Penghu Islands of Taiwan，for this #SundayFishSketch 🦑🐡🧪

Taiwan saw a surge of Chinese military planes near the island, its defense ministry said Sunday, after a sharp drop in flights over the past two weeks had sparked discussions among observers.

Join us for the fourth session of our Taiwan History 101 reading group on March 24th! Please note that we have pushed back the reading group from its original scheduled time by one day www.facebook.com/events/14839...

"This went against the journalistic notion that 'dog bites man' wasn’t a story—that readers only cared about 'man bites dog.'" May we all have as fulfilling a career as our friend and #SciComm mentoring sage @jgrabmeier.bsky.social! Happy retirement, Jeff! alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/he-mad... 🧪

“We were aware that we might have a similar situation this year,” the Ig Nobel founder said after Trump's border policies prompted 4/10 winning teams to decline traveling in 2025. "Then the situation got far worse.” Read about the Igs' decision to move abroad @science.org: tinyurl.com/3kfrdh7y

"LNG Storage Development Threatens White Dolphin Habitat" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

CRIT is a bilingual space where casual and serious writers can submit in-progress work, or finished pieces to get feedback from other writers/readers. Participants are required to submit a piece of writing to attend this event. Writers of all levels are encouraged to join!

Calling on all writers! Do you have a short story, poem, zine, chapter of a book, or any other writing that you would like feedback on? Join us for the first meeting of Constructive Reading in Taipei- or CRIT, on Thursday, March 19, 2026.

My latest piece:

Pen Club still going strong twice a month! Come by to have a drink and doodle. Find our other events here: newbloommag.net/events-calen...

"Who has the right to tell the stories of objects: to whom does history, do these objects and their stories, belong when their owners have gone? Can they ever truly communicate their own stories... once their time has passed?" @jordynhaime.bsky.social in her essay: open.substack.com/pub/jordynha...

Let me know if this posting experiment worked! I'm still playing with how best to use LinkedIn and Bluesky after my hiatus.