adrian de leon
@aadeleon.bsky.social
author of Notes from a Wayward Son (2026), Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland (2026), Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (2023), atbp. // writer and history professor at NYU
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
The AHA should be in the process of being dismantled by its dues paying members tomorrow. If that is not happening then…
this is what I have to ask when I see academics post entire threads on whether or not he plagiarised. AFTER his death.
Atheendar Venkataramani@atheendar.bsky.social · 2w ago2/ A guy died! Was anything he did or did not do so important to humanity that he needed to be bullied to death? We are terrible, terrible people.
The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.
the immediate discourse to pathologize Prof. Arday's death as "mental instability" so these opportunistic hounds can absolve themselves from their culpability
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
B*njamin Ryan spent whole days posting about Arday endlessly on Twitter. He seems to have deleted/be deleting his posts now. But plenty of academics were very happy to continue in his comments and elsewhere. Hounding someone to death is unlikely to weigh much on the minds or hearts of these people.
Steph' Thorpe@stephbirdart.bsky.social · 2w agoHe was hounded to death. Every press article was breathless In its glee and had the racist comment section below. It should never have been blown out of proportion like it has been. I hope everyone is pleased with themselves now, you would hope for introspection, but know it won’t even bother them
Academic folks: I've got two PhD students on the market this year, broadly within Global Asias and geography. (One on postwar environmental remediation in Vietnam, the other on infrastructure and aesthetics in Hong Kong.) Would love some leads on postdocs, esp. in this changing landscape. Thanks!!!
what my books see when I'm about to sign my 65th copy at the exhibit
UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 4w ago@rachelshelden.bsky.social and @aadeleon.bsky.social just wrapped up at the indie press reception at SIBA and NAIBA’s New Voices, New Rooms! Look at them in their element chatting with booksellers 👏📚
Tomorrow's combination of dangerous heat and unhealthy air is a serious threat to New Yorkers’ health. If you can, stay somewhere cool with air conditioning, limit time outdoors, drink plenty of water, and check on your neighbors — especially older New Yorkers and anyone with a health condition.
If you know the particular mix of love, sacrifice, expectation, and guilt that comes with immigrant parents, please read this one. Out Sept 15. And happy Father’s Day! @aadeleon.bsky.social
MY VOICE IS SHOT FROM SCREAMING THE PRAISES OF OGUGUA ANUNOBY
my doctoral student Kavita Gawrinauth just published "Faith in transit: Caste, conversion and colonial Christianity under indenture in British Guiana," and it promises to be a major contribution to the growing study of Indo-Caribbean migration and religion: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Faith in transit: Caste, conversion and colonial Christianity under indenture in British Guiana
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Tim Duncan is my favorite player of all time, but The Alien might be in the running to be The Big Fundamental's successor
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe emotions from Victor Wembanyama
stomping out of the crib for a stupid mental health walk
evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social · 3mo ago:) Watching The Jays :)
My write-up for the American Historical Association's (@historians.org) Perspectives on History magazine, an In Memoriam for my late friend and teacher, Vicente Rafael, historian and theorist of language and the Filipino postcolonial condition: www.historians.org/perspectives...
Vicente L. Rafael (1956–2026) – AHA
Vicente (Vince) Leuterio Rafael, eminent historian of the Philippines and scholar of translation, died on February 21, 2026.
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Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)
I'm so glad I left that shithole of an institution. But who's to say we won't get outmuscled everywhere? I can make as much space as I can in my classrooms - and I get really incredible and kind students in it for the love of the game - but money, like violence, screams over a Socratic seminar.
Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 4mo agoAbsolutely fascinating how nearly every teacher and professor I know is now overhauling their pedagogy to put everything on old-fashioned paper, while (and in large part because) massive investments in AI like this roll in. I have no idea what will come of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
***2026 IEHS Award Winners*** Many thanks to everyone who was able to attend the IEHS annual banquet in Philadelphia to celebrate this year’s award winners. The event was a resounding success! We are delighted to share this year’s winners with the entire membership: A thread - 1/
Notes from a Wayward Son: A Memoir by @aadeleon.bsky.social A father builds a dojo to hold onto home. A son pushes back. A searing memoir of migration, masculinity, and conflict. uncpress.org/978146969663...
Notes from a Wayward Son
In his first memory of his father, Adrian De Leon is four years old. Sitting in front of his family home high above the street in Manila, Philippines, he see...
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Outstanding Dissertation Award Sarah Meiners (Cornell University), “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific” #OAH26 4/
Congratulations to all of our 2026 award winners!! #OAH26 A thread - 1/
