After the introduction of the 100K fee, many unis stopped provide any sponsorship, especially those in red states or R2 institutions, although they or the job applicants residing in the US were not impacted by the policy. The chilling effect caused by the uncertainty is the actual point of it.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo ago

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the steeply increased fee.

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.

Calls for Papers - Global China Pulse

Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain

globalchinapulse.net

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.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6mo ago

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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.

Yangyang Cheng@yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Amidst the fixation with semiconductors and geopolitics, how did Taiwan become a center of global electronics? Who were the people that powered its rise, and what happens when the tinkerer becomes the tycoon? I review Honghong Tinn's Island Tinkerers @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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...

Racial quotas for immigration are back | Heba Gowayed

The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US

theguardian.com

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.

@eraldo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

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 💀💀

Wendy Y. Li@wendyyli.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Job market candidates right now

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...

American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Take action for international students! Proposed DHS rule eliminating Duration of Status is detrimental for international students. Submit public comment (naming Docket No. ICEB-2025-0001) before 11:59 pm EDT, Sept. 29: https://bit.ly/3KoPB0w. Context: https://bit.ly/42nbq6Y.

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

Ruiyi Li@ruiyili.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

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.

Ruiyi Li@ruiyili.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

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

Ruiyi Li@ruiyili.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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$).

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$).

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 12mo ago

Already feeling under attack and facing increased government scrutiny, international college students balked at a new Trump administration proposal that could limit their stays in the US to four years.

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.

Anise K. Strong@anisekstrong.bsky.social · last yr.

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

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.

ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds

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Qing Tingting Liu@bardjester.bsky.social · last yr.

@weirongguo.bsky.social and I are excited to share our latest publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies: "Privilege or marginalization: how Chinese youth from divergent class backgrounds make sense of racism in the U.S. and Australia." 🔗：https://lnkd.in/e94yeAki

😅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.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.

Nearly half of Gen Z adults say planning for the future feels “pointless,” according to a recent Credit Karma poll.

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.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

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.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last yr.

BREAKING: Columbia University no longer meets accreditation standards after violating antidiscrimination laws, the US says

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

Michael Berry (白睿文)@bairuiwen.bsky.social · last yr.

Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S. @chowleen.bsky.social @jackchin.bsky.social @kaiserkuo.bsky.social; Mae Ngai, (Columbia); Thomas Kellogg, (Georgetown Law) www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

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

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The magic of an affogato is that even a bad one can be very good, but a very good one can change your life. nyti.ms/3SwZU3N

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...