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Research Scholar at Yale Law School studying the history of science in China and US-China relations. Particle physicist by training. Writer at various places. Editor at Made in China Journal. Co-host of Dissident at the Doorstep.
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The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

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The Thai government confirms it has deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China after a decade in Thai detention. The men were removed from Suan Plu last night in trucks and flown to Kashgar. A host of human rights groups and international policymakers had urged China not to deport the men.

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When I tell you there are vanishingly few decision-makers in journalism who do this and we're all the poorer because of it ... Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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IJNet Chinese Editor (and The Xylom contributor!) @crystalcchow.bsky.social translated our Engagement Editor @aoruii.bsky.social's analysis of "How Unverified Claims About the LA Wildfires Spread Across Chinese-Language Media" into Chinese! Check it out:

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Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!! Save the date Sept 11-13!! law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

2020-21: structural racism 2021-23: CRT 2023-now: DEI Fascinating to get a bird's eye view. And useful to remember that the shift to CRT, not as legal theory but catch-all boogeyman, was a deliberate, calculated effort.

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"Solidarity and a refusal to practice 'anticipatory obedience' are essential. If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable..." — @lewispants.bsky.social

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the American Academy for Arts and Sciences' Sarton Prize for the History of Science! Many thanks to the countless people whose support helped make this possible. www.amacad.org/news/victor-...

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One week to go before the application deadline of this Friday, February 28! Please circulate this call widely to relevant potential applicants, to help us benefit from as strong and diverse an applicant pool as possible.

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New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Humans care for the rich, robots are forced on the poor. The neoliberal fantasy of the oligarchs is coming to fruition by the way of austerity measures and spending cuts. Why pay for actual human support if a robot can tick the checkbox.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Wore this to moderate a panel on "AI" and its social impacts. The jacket was too warm for inside and too cold for outside. It's still perfect.👾🔨

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

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"The ease with which corporations shredded their DEI policies is why it’s important to note the fundamental differences between fighting to be included and fighting for autonomy and self-determination." prismreports.org/2025/02/18/d...

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How do newsrooms in China report on and interact with feminist activism? What are the effects of commercialization, social media, and state pressure on journalism over the past few decades? Read this wonderful piece by Li Jun (Li Sipan) @madeinchinajournal.com: madeinchinajournal.com/2025/02/19/n...

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How do newsrooms in China report on and interact with feminist activism? What are the effects of commercialization, social media, and state pressure on journalism over the past few decades? Read this wonderful piece by Li Jun (Li Sipan) @madeinchinajournal.com: madeinchinajournal.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I respect FIRE’s legal advocacy but reporters really need to stop using FIRE’s rankings unless you truly believe that campus speech is most free in southern states that have banned ideas and concepts from being taught in the classroom

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

We're 55% of our goal to sustain our Editor-at-Large Kang-Chun Cheng. In times like these, global multimedia reporting on Indigenous rights, natural resources extraction, and environmental justice are vital to understanding our place in the world. Give now: opencollective.com/thexylom/con...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

we can and must aim higher! i’m doing my part! are YOU? 🫵🏻

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The “run it like a start up” grift is a more extreme version of the “run it like a business” trend for infrastructure. We had decades of people trying to run things like businesses they never should have—public goods, like schools, universities, and hospitals. That, plus technophilia, got us here.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 7 days ago • 3458 comments

Check out our unpacking @aaup.bsky.social of the executive orders affecting higher education with what YOU and WE can do to fight them: How Should We Respond to Executive Power Abuses? open.substack.com/pub/academic...

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If you are a scientist or policy expert working on something related to climate or the environment, and your work has been impacted by these cuts, either directly or indirectly, and you want to tell @thebulletin.org about it, you can email me [email protected] (or [email protected])

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent source! I’ve added it to the readings for my course, Tyranny and Dignity: Chinese Women from the Cultural Revolution to the White Paper Protests, specifically for Topic 11: Battling Digital Communism – China’s #MeToo Movement.

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Trump Team Finds Loophole to Defy Spirit of Court Orders Blocking Spending Freezes Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Looking back over decades, Li Jun explores how Chinese feminists have strategically used media platforms to advance their causes, how shifts in the media system have shaped activism, and how young women, empowered by feminism, have become a vital force in sustaining quality journalism in China.

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People literally died from Covid while claiming it doesn’t exist. There is never going to be a wake up call for some people. A lot of people. It’s not about convincing them if they can’t be convinced. IMO it’s about overwhelming them entirely with opposition.

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 9 days ago • 295 comments

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

I am delighted to announce the publication of the coedited book (with Dr Daniel H. Mutibwa) Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (Routledge 2025). Paperback and ebook available on first print. Most images are printed in colour.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

super thoughtful 🧵 important to note that trump is assaulting the public’s ability to know the consequences of his destruction. the combo of attacking media and blasting out propaganda is strategic and media has to invest in resisting and overcoming it.

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1/ 🧵The HKJA has cancelled its annual fundraising dinner after the Regal Hongkong Hotel axed its booking, citing “water leakage causing unstable power supply.” hongkongfp.com/2025/02/14/h...

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After a decade of right-wing fools yelling about “cancel culture,” “free-speech,” and an (imaginary) threat of left-wing censorship, the first thing they do when the get power is ban talking about anything that hurts their little feelings. Ok, back to writing about these neo-segregationists.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

sabotaging government so that you can turn around and tell people government is broken and that’s why we should privatize everything

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

“Flu has been brutal this season. The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October… But CDC analyses that would inform people about these situations are delayed, and the CDC has cut off communication with doctors”

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

If the legitimate press just permanently stopped attending these events and were replaced by propaganda outlets, that would be both optically clarifying and improve actual journalism.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.

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Easy to miss the stuff still happening in statehouses given all the national news, but this bill—which would prevent faculty from striking, set limits around topics like climate, diversity, and marriage, and force institutions into neutrality—passed the Ohio Senate last night.

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1/ 🧵BREAKING: #HongKong's most reputable and only independent polling organisation, HK PORI, has announced it will suspend all self-funded research and may “even close down,” weeks after its CEO Robert Chung was investigated by national security police. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/02/13/b...

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