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now: postdoc, UC San Diego 21CCC soon: assist. prof. of political science, Trinity College, CT always: bureaucracy, China, history, text
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does anyone have historical project-level data of projects funded by UNDP? Like back into the 1980s?

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

can someone point me to the historian of ideas who came out in favor of RFK or sth

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It’s me. It’s my anniversary and we went for a frolic. I even touched some grass. It was lit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

hi, chinese politics expert here. if you see someone looking at these two enormous books it is NOT funny. chinese politics scholars only look at these books when they in EXTREME distress.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

a laugh while the world burns today: so i'm adding some more folks to the wiki (as one does) and this dude is a true intellectual. he refers to his self-edited tome of republished essays, speeches, and reports as 'this little booklet.' Reader, this book is FOUR HUNDRED FORTY SIX pages long.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

every time I think I have exhausted the list of organs setting, enforcing, monitoring, and otherwise implementing personnel policy (who does what, in what state organ, for how much money), I discover someone who is serving in three other weird committees that set policy for 4 months in 1982

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

for my birthday i am writing something just for me: a little note about the bureaucracies created for the sole purpose of managing other bureaucracies. meta-bureaucracy. hyper-bureaucracy. bureaucratic inversion. we have it all. (that's right: someone is finally writing about the 编委)

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she simply does not miss (clowns in her comments notwithstanding)

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it’s time to admit it: I have been smuggling barely-concealed Weber and Polanyi into public policy courses for two years, and now that I have a job no one can stop me from continuing

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

new working paper (reposted with fixed/public link): osf.io/gbkn5

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

no one: oh mike what have you been working on me: i have written 20,000 words of private, niche wikipedia entries

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

me: research is fun! my students: wow, he must love learning. me, discovering unintentional pride flags: i have the best job in the world

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New study alert 🚨 What renewable energy targets should China adopt in its forthcoming climate targets? Our latest research in @CellRepSustain provides a roadmap for reducing emissions in China's power sector by 2035. 🧵 Dive into our key findings below 👇  www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Some thoughts on the polycrisis of budget cuts and the uptick of AI in higher education. Folks, things are going to get 'interesting'. pardoguerra.org/2025/05/14/t...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

For those interested, there is a recording of the #bookTalk for "Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation" The talk discusses how networks can be used in historical research on Modern China, using some of the chapters as examples. #dh #sinology www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egt...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

struggling to explain what little I have learned about the field of public administration to political scientists. Is there a … translation guide?

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky help me out—I got an inquiry from an iSchool staff member who worked at UIUC’s Fire Safety Institute for years & while there digitized reel-to-reel dispatch audio from the 1968 Chicago Riots after King’s assassination—he’s wondering if there’s a project that could use this audio—suggestions?

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Genuinely no idea how people use language models to clean up OCR results??? Just tried with ChatGPT's latest model and the results are both terrible and extremely prone to hallucination. This is from an English 1985 typewritten document with perfect lighting and pretty simple OCR errors?

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments