Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

NEW: From today until 12/31, NewsMatch matches any gift you make towards @thexylom.com! In a nutshell: Your gift will be quadrupled. If you start a membership, your monthly amount is matched *x36*! Support independent, worker-run journalism: let's take root and flourish in a healthier planet.

Beyond the headlines, why did manufacturing move to East Asia, who are the workers, and what are the social costs? I'm so honored to have Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei on Ep.5 of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com to discuss gender, labor, and (de)industrialization in China and Taiwan:

I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches, A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs, And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living. Czeslaw Milosz, All Hallow's Eve #everynightapoem

So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...

@chinabooksreview.com just published my review of Yu Hua's 余华 *City of Fiction*《文城》(2021, tr. 2025). "Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century." chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f...

Beyond the headlines, why did manufacturing move to East Asia, who are the workers, and what are the social costs? I'm so honored to have Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei on Ep.5 of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com to discuss gender, labor, and (de)industrialization in China and Taiwan:

📣 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

Why did Western firms move manufacturing to East Asia? Who are the workers behind the region's industrial rise, and what are the social costs? For our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social spoke with Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei on gender, labour, and (de)industrialisation in China and Taiwan.

So very looking forward to teaching this virtual workshop on writing across and beyond borders! Ticket sales go towards supporting @nuvoices.bsky.social, of which I'm a longtime reader and listener, and big fan😍 Details and sign-up: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

If you love @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's writing as much as I do, check out her upcoming virtual writing workshop with NüVoices!

So very looking forward to teaching this virtual workshop on writing across and beyond borders! Ticket sales go towards supporting @nuvoices.bsky.social, of which I'm a longtime reader and listener, and big fan😍 Details and sign-up: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

Here, she reviews two of Fang Fang's novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social for @chinabooksreview.com, on how women in China have suffered abuse, silence and erasure. chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

@yangyangcheng.bsky.social has written insightful and powerful pieces on science, culture, and current events as it relates to China and the U.S. Most recently, she traced the stories and struggles that face Chinese women in science for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...

🚨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...

I’m going to “democratize” a thing by giving poor folks a bad approximation of the thing they need.

The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...

Always a lot of interesting pieces in @madeinchinajournal.com Drones,a typewriter, hydropower, love, basketball are amongst the topics in the 20+ articles contained.

What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless? Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...

"For scholars everywhere, [her] research laid the bedrock for comprehensive, gendered studies of the history of women scientists within national contexts." Today's #histSTM & #WomenInSTEM lunch read: @donluke.bsky.social reflects on Margaret Rossiter's contributions to #histsci for @aip.bsky.social

Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time: It rules

Our Chinese-language sister publication Tian Jian (田間), specializing in reporting on issues related to global Chinese-language media, just went live with their website. Check it out here: tian-jian.org

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

DAIR’s (@dairinstitute.bsky.social) latest report offers a chilling glimpse into how Amazon is using technology to ramp up surveillance of delivery drivers, violating existing workers' rights and creating unsafe working conditions. www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...

Just read this powerful piece @yangyangcheng.bsky.social: A timely reminder of the inequalities that women scientists in China & across the world still face today. Vivid and insightful as always. Honoured 'The Time Inheritors' @sunypress.bsky.social is cited! madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/08/b...

Share your stories of defending academic freedom! AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom seeks submissions on initiatives that have been pursued, strategies that have been deployed, coalitions that have been built, and work that remains to be done in the fight for academic freedom. Full CFP below👇

We're so proud to be the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, we made a starter pack of every Asian (American) science writer you should follow on here! Anyone else we should add to the starter pack? Sound off in the comments! go.bsky.app/F4Q7Duh

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Datacenters could account for more than 14% of the US’s total power demand by 2030. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are still the only Asian American-run news outlet covering the environment and climate! Please subscribe to our weekly newsletter, we will never have a paywall: buttondown.email/thexylom

Dear colleagues,I am delighted to share the key findings from my recent publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, based on a major chapter of my dissertation. Open-access PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1EZvi...; doi.org/10.1080/1369...

UPDATE: NJ District Court GRANTED Mahmoud Khalil's request to lift domestic travel restrictions imposed on him by conditions of his bail (int'l travel still restricted + other stipulations). The court has also DENIED the government's request for GPS or electronic monitoring.

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Barbara Demick on her latest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove📖

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.

China Books Review was delighted to celebrate our second year anniversary last week, hitting 180 articles, with this double review of two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang: chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f... We're off this week and will return to regular Tue/Thu posting next week.

Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...

Please run, don’t walk! mekongreview.com/subscribe

This upcoming issue of ‘Made in China Journal’ dives deep into how a generation is navigating constraint, competition and creativity, from digital platforms to poetry and from co-living to basketball courts. Register your interest to learn more doi.org/10.22459/MIC...

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways

I published two pieces on women in China this week! First, a review essay @chinabooksreview.com on two Fang Fang novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame (tr. Michael Berry). Gendered oppression has persisted during the socialist period and capitalist reforms, despite the CCP's promise of liberation.

"Generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy. Their stories refuse soft burials." So honored to have a review essay out in Banned Books Week @chinabooksreview.com on two of Fang Fang's most acclaimed novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social:

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...