They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!

My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this

When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?

Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?

Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE. Subscribe to my rumble to help the cause: rumble.com/v6y7a1c-minn...

My new essay for @nbr.org that explores the convergence of geopolitical space and propaganda in China's "external periphery." To learn what (and where) that is, read on...

A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share! chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...

Monsoonal rainfall contributed to the flooding of the Bhote Koshi River at the Rasuwagadhi border of Nepal and China, damaging the dry port and destroying a key bridge. Thankfully, Timure town is above the river. Here are two photos I took there last month.

Hanging out in the CU Boulder library this morning to access CNKI. Good memories of this campus!

I did my part.

Follow up to my last post about maps on the sides of trucks at the Sino-Nepalese borders. This one is painted over. China is a bit sensitive about unauthorized cartography… Who knew?

I love the hand applied and painted maps on trucks at the Rasuwagadhi border. #rasuwa #cartography #sinonepalese #borderlands

Finally, the invitation I've been waiting my whole life to accept! Everything has been building up to this point. 😇🚀🪐

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Our panel on Global Asia at #aasinasia2025 in #kathmandu Thanks to Sanggay, Dorji, Sonika, and Yowei for being involved.

First day of the #AASinAsia2025 @bennoweiner.bsky.social Levering the Margins #kathmandu

World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent theonion.com/world-s...

“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.” Deadly by design. And they know it. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

This article of mine was published online last fall, but has now been assigned to a 2025 issue of Asian Ethnicity. It's based on discussions with Muslims from a variety of ethnic groups and teaching living in Xining City. Question in a nutshell: How's China's urbanization project treating you?

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands. Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended @columbiaup.bsky.social

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

Seems like every week there's more harassment towards journalists in Kazakhstan. Timur Nusimbekov, a journalist and documentary filmmaker who also happens to be a good friend of mine, has been denounced by a pro-Russia online troll for "offensive speech towards the president" t.me/nusimbekov/349

For an urban geography class next semester I am thinking about doing a (English language) primary source based activity on Karakorum. Any suggestions for materials and/or themes? I have a copy of Dawson’s “The Mongol Mission” but would like more perspectives…

WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.

The online program for #AASInAsia2025 is available now—log in to save sessions and create your personal schedule! buff.ly/DmdlSKu

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

My department is hiring a VAP in Asian history, please share this job ad widely with anyone you think might be interested: apply.interfolio.com/165851

Happy to accept sweet swag from the Eurasia Geography Speciality Group for their Photography award at #aag2025.

Geography at the #DIA #aag2025 “Standing in front of her students, Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom in Greek mythology, teaches them how to read a map of the world. … based on a print published in The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion of the Fair Sex from London, England, in 1799.”

Corridors promise seamless development—but often conceal violence, exclusion & inequality. In a new article, David Bachrach and I theorize the dialectics of 'corridorisation,' tracing how it reshapes lives & land in SEAsia. @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Jamon Jordan Detroit's official historian gave an excellent city tour today-part of the #AAG2025 Political Geog Specialty Group's pre-conference. Jamon spoke on Detroit's rich Black history. My eds were happy to contribute funding to the tour. #geosky #academicsky detourdetroiter.com/jamon-jordan...

Learning about the Black history of Detroit with Jamon Jordan. Really great “detour”! #pgsg2025 #aag2025

Off to Detroit for the Political Geography Specialty Group pre-conference. #pgsg2025 #aag2025

Shuttering the Department of Education is a radical plan, ripped from the pages of Project 2025, that will close the doors of opportunity for America's students. We stand with our affiliated unions as they challenge this illegal order in court. aflcio.org/press/releas...

Here's a handy rundown of upcoming Cartography & Mapping Specialty Group sessions at AAG 2025! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #AAG2025

I just noticed the AAS-in-Asia 2025 schedule was up. Excited to be a discussant in this panel with Dorje Tashi, Sanggay Tashi, Wandai Ji, and Sonika Gupta. Our session is on June 4th in Kathmandu. @asianstudies.org #aasinasia2025

Kazakh investigative journalist Daniyar Moldabekov, who was at times very critical of the way RFE/RL was being run in Prague, isn't mincing any words about how monumental of a loss the closing of Azattyq would be for Kazakhstan in a recent Telegram post t.me/qazjanuary/6...

For the first time, we've compiled a Spring #TibetReadingList with over 25 titles available now for people of all ages! Enjoy perusing the list and let us know what you're reading at the moment 📚 highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-p...

Another unforced error from the Trump administration. Eliminating the next generation of Americans with contextual knowledge about the world beyond our borders.

China brokers Ukrainian Peas Agreement ✨ #PeasInOurTime

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

🏛️ The British Museum removed the term “Xizang” from its labeling of Tibetan artifacts after rights groups and Tibetans living in the United Kingdom criticised the use of the Beijing-promoted place name. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...

There was one real President in that office today.

From Superman IV to Welcome to Mooseport, Gene Hackman left indelible marks on world cinema. He will be remembered.

Asian Borderlands conference announcement (relocated and postponed) 13-15 January, 2026 - still open for submissions! www.iias.asia/events/negot...

Having fun teaching my Global Energy Transitions course. I am in the middle of a three class run on whales, horses, and guano (birds).