We are also planning an issue of Global China Pulse on ‘Global China and the Shifting Moral Order’. We are inviting contributions on how moral claims about the world are being renegotiated in this moment of transition and how moral and political orders emerge in specific contexts.

Decorated my department’s office with a 福 upside down ( means 福到 fortune arrives) this afternoon. May everyone has a healthy happy and prosperous year of the Fire horse! 🐎🐎🧧🧧

Art is also very universal. Bad Bunny’s halftime show is widely discussed in Chinese social media platforms, such as red-note. Many ordinary Chinese folks with 0 knowledge of those colonial histories first exposed to such past by learning and analyzing the symbols in his performance.

Call your senators. ICE today is a product of ICE of yesterday, of our carceral and policing and security logic — that’s all true. But shooting civilians point blank in the street with impunity is turning a corner we won’t come back from. Please call them today & tell them not to fund this.

My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That header misses the “adversary nation” part of the headline, downplaying the throwback-McCarthyist vibes. 1950s nostalgia in full swing with updated Red scare and clamoring for an anti-Chinese Cold War.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

📢 I'm recruiting interview participants for my dissertation project! I am conducting a study on Asian migrants' dating and marriage experiences. If you know anyone who might be interested, please have them email me or feel free to share my flyer!

Job market is spooky 💀💀

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...

Support your international colleagues by leaving an opposing comment by September 29: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE.... Your voice matters!

The AAAS SocSci Caucus is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three article awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Article, Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article, and Outstanding Tenured Faculty Research Article.

But good news is you can leave a comment at www.regulations.gov/document/ICE... and support your international colleagues by expressing your concerns of this ICEB-2025-0001 docket.

This Proposed Rule does more harm than this. 1) it shortens the grace period from 60 days to 30 days for intel students to find a job. 2) it forbids students who earned higher level degrees to enroll in a lower level one. 3) prohibiting changing programs for students pursuing grad degrees. And more

For most PhD programs, on average, it takes about 6~7 years to finish. When students have to renew their visa every 4 years, it means everyone will apply to the visa application 2 times now. Financially, it adds another 300$ ( Visa app fee) + international round trip+ accommodations (min 1500$).

I think it’s important to mention that, beyond their economic contribution, international students are also real people who have lived in the US quite long and built their lives here instead of transient sojourns. Being on F1 for almost my entire 20s, I have mixed feelings about what’s happening.

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have. www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.

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😅facing climate change, long term economic recession, advancement of AI, high living costs, declining political and social freedom, is it really surprising to anyone why Gen Z loves the idea of carpe diem?? You can’t take all their hope away and then blame them for being shortsighted.

The exclusion of Chinese was extremely violent. For many Asian immigrants, even Americans who’re Asian descents, rarely knew much about it. I even didn’t know more about this history until last year. Check this book out to learn more about the horrific past and its lingering effects on today.

This is terrible but it is also misleading. The US government is not the accreditor - they've basically written a letter to Columbia's *actual* accreditor and demanded that they take action.

Thank you to Michael Berry for convening us for a conversation on this timely topic - join us Thursday 6/5/2025

I actually had Affogato for the first time this April after living in the US for almost a decade. I even traveled to Italy once😅It was funny that even the part-time cashier asked her coworker how to make it after I ordered. Since then, I noticed the varieties of Affogato around me, ⬇️the Matcha one

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China Bin Xu (Emory) Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt) Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley) Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

It goes without saying but this is an incredibly stupid decision for a multitude of reasons, but primary among them is that there’s no rationale behind any of it. Just pure, bigoted, knee jerk stupidity.

Yes. NAFSA has data on international students' economic value breakdown by states. www.nafsa.org/policy-and-a...

As a Chinese woman who's from Zhengzhou, where the largest iPhone manufacturing plant is located, I'm shocked and mad to see ignorant racist analysis like this. If the author ever did any research, first of all, he would know that it’s the uncles and aunties who are producing iPhones (1)

Like the sudden wave of mass visa revocations initiated by DHS before, this new move made by this administration again fuels international students' fear and panic of studying and working in the US and keeps ruining the American higher ed's reputation and prestige.

On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

In 2018, the first Trump admin. wrongfully deported an Iraqi man, despite a court order. The U.S. govt quickly recognized the mistake and worked with the man's attorneys to bring him back. He was later returned. My story on the difference from then to now: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Essentially, and unlike "health equity" research, "health disparities" research can be used (or misused) to promote a MAHA narrative that blames people for their own "bad" health. 3/ bsky.app/profile/jess...

If you are not aware: students only 'fall out of status' if they don't attend classes, or are not enrolled full time (e.g. Musk's original visa). Their schools lawfully control this determination. If they commit a crime, their visas can be reviewed/revoked. The process described here is extralegal.

Elon Musk admitted why he’s spending $18 million & paying voters $100 a pop to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s all about keeping GOP gerrymandering advantage in US House. If Dems retake House they can investigate Musk, DOGE & his $38 billion in govt contracts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There is literally no reason or explanation one can give for this that is not pure unadulterated evil. There is no bottom to this level of ghoulishness. It is nothing but cruelty and anyone with a soul knows it is wrong to do.

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

The more people who sign the less risky it is for all of us. We're over 900 in just about 13 hours since we first posted it. Share with your colleagues, your friends, your list servs, your professional associations, your department and campus email lists - bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

Fellow Chinese national scholars and students, how are we doing today?? 🥲How many times those politicians gonna ride the Chinese question for their own benefits? Not sure when they plan to reinstate the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 21st century. We shall see how things unfold very soon.😵

Thank u for sharing this with us!Also, it’s very bizarre to me that we have to learn important things like this online instead of getting clear information and instructions on protocols from our university, which is the one of very few major social institutions we can rely on as immigrants.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”