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Update: The Atlantic Council has now received notification from the State Dept formally terminating several China-focused research and capacity-building projects. “We are currently assessing the impact of this loss of funding on our ability to continue this work,” Atlantic Council says.

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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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If you are interested in how local states in China are becoming venture capitalists while balancing the new innovation imperative with issues of equity, stability, & social justice at a time of real estate bust and high local gov debts, plz read our new work on "local venture state"

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I hope more people can watch this video and understand the negative impacts on American competitiveness and global scientific leadership when wrongly targeting ethnic Chinese scientists and engineers.Now with the funding freeze & layoffs, things are just going to get worse. youtu.be/voUcv7ydC9o?...

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Great book! Was a big help in addressing the reviewers' comments on my book ms.

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"Some organizations are racing to embrace AI before it is reliable enough to put in unsupervised contact with people." In schools, these people are mostly children.

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Universities start to respond to all the havoc, Pitt was only one of the schools I've seen that had paused PhD offers this year given the federal funding situation. Who else?

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The Chinese chatbot DeepSeek marks a fork in the road for Latin America: a powerful tool for self-reliance or a new kind of digital dependence? It is a game-changer for countries with limited resources because its doesn’t require prohibitive investments. www.americasquarterly.org/article/deep...

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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We pick great books and authors on @socannex.bsky.social, and today is no exception. @joannakempner.bsky.social is my guest for her book Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine. Timely topic! Listen here or on Spotify, etc. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/joan...

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I am so grateful to Angela Xiao Wu's beautifully written review of my book! As she wrote: "The Reinvention of Labor is an indispensable contribution to the global search for truly progressive, “pro-social” policy making"

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The Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series is back for the spring term! Join us next Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Dasom Lee on embedding social goals into the privacy of automated vehicles. Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #sociology

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...

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RIP😢🙏

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This new article from @histoftech.bsky.social provides essential testimony of resistance within tech industry. It’s also valuable for anyone (like me!) researching the history of worker organizing w/in science and tech companies

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looking forward to the conversation tmr morning on tiktok refugee and Grassroots Sino-American dialogue! 9 am.EST

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Returning to my condo after 1 year abroad, only to find it severely damaged by the renter. She abused the heating system, left clogs in the drainage, flooded my floor many times, and left the condo uncleaned, and the sofa and closet door completely broken, with deep nail holes all over the apts.

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“Denied by AI,” the multi-part STAT News investigation of how #UnitedHealthcare used an opaque algorithmic system to deny care to people who needed it is a #mustread www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/m...

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Part 1 of our special issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" is out, open-access, with 10 articles & an Introduction journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctpa/9/4. The remaining 14 pieces are out OnlineFirst. Thank you to our contributors! @annenbergpenn.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social

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@bsky.app somehow cannot upload pics from my Vivo phone photo album despite granting all the accesses to this app on my phone?

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Through an analysis of Chinese gaming giant Tencent, this study reveals how these companies embed Chinese cultural elements and narratives within their games, effectively turning them into vehicles for cultural exchange and soft power projection. #Sinology www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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“Unlike a workplace, nature cannot simply be seized by its employees & run under democratic self-management ... it is not just another factor of production... it is the condition & limit of our existence.” Read @cominsitu.bsky.social on socialising nature 👇 break-down.org/post/sociali...

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Very much this, from Dan Drezner. He focuses a lot on universities, but rightly so. U.S. educational, scientific and technological preeminence are closely linked — and all have a lot to do with the past openness of our society 1/ open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

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Put together a starter pack of folks who research and write about historical and contemporary issues related to science and technology in China. Please let me know if you have suggestions to add to this list or want to be a part of it, too. go.bsky.app/LCxEqEy #histstm #science #technology #China

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Another starter pack related to my research interests, for critical or interdisciplinary studies of Asian media/culture/society. Scholars and practitioners are welcome to join. Please reply and share if interested. go.bsky.app/6NURvgw

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故事FM这期内容上线后，“706青年空间”发布了《关于取消罗勉“706北京名誉创始团队成员”称号的通知》 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Q-h5Xy0kRf... 罗勉，即原文中的“罗曼”，目前在乔治华盛顿大学读博士后。

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Congratulations to former CDCS doctoral fellow @zoezhao.bsky.social on receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association of Chinese Communication Studies at #nca2024 for her dissertation "The Rise of Platform Game Work in China "

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Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!

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On Dec 4 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host a session featuring @drjcw.bsky.social’s project titled “Chinese American or American Chinese?: WeChat and the Hybrid Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/8951907632...

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It took us 2 year to write this paper & 4 more years to get this article out! Not a easy paper to write, but it forces us to reflect on our own experiences as international students and international faculty members in the Amercisn higher ed system. Hope people find this useful.

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I created a starter pack for sociologists studying China: go.bsky.app/NetJdDm. We study China’s labor, gender, family, inequality, organizations, education, professions, media, civil society, protests, immigration, as well as politics and history. Let me know if you want to be added (or removed).

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Happy to see The Labor of Reinvention listed here as one of the best books about China from 2023! focus.cbbc.org/best-china-b...

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Decades after the Wen Ho Lee case, Asian Americans are still being subjected to unfair levels of scrutiny for the act of being Asian. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/u...

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Happy new year!! Just out: "Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures"-a short piece w/ Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social & Rahul Mukherjee. Argues the importance of the State in the platform-culture-market nexus. We build on the imp work of @nsrnicek.bsky.social & others doi.org/10.1177/1367...

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Thinking of getting that special someone a lump of coal for the holidays? How about a book about it instead? CARBON TECHNOCRACY is available for $28 (hardcover) and $19.25 (paperback) with promo code CARBONTECH at @UChicagoPress: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #histstm 🧪 #envhist

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