I cohosted a podcast with @solarina.ca featuring @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on science , China politics and why you can’t really do ‘apolitical academia ‘ nuvoices.com/podcast/a-co...

As a longtime fan of NüVoices, I'm so honored to be on its podcast to talk about why science is always political, who needs "China" as a threat, and how to write against precarity and public pressures. Many thanks to hosts @solarina.ca @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social and the @nuvoices.bsky.social team!

NüVoices 女性之音@nuvoices.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW EPISODE: This week, hosts Solarina Ho @solarina.ca and Rui Zhong speak with Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social, a research scholar at Yale Law School, on writing about science, politics, and US-China relations. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts:

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Whatever short-term gain Mr. Trump thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world,” the editorial board writes.

Opinion | Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran

Whatever short-term gain the president thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world.

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NEW Q&A: @semafor.com's executive editor Gina Chua joins Nüora managing partner @joannachiu.bsky.social to discuss opportunities for global journalism and why Western firms are moving past China market "toothpaste dreams". Editor: @solarina.ca nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/how-compan...

“Vitamin K is important for helping the blood clot and preventing dangerous bleeding in babies, like bleeding into the brain,” said Dr. Kristan Scott of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The unfathomable decline in trust in science and medicine feels like such a tragedy.

It's not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies.

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Skip the hotel restaurants and conference coffee lines. Use this guide to explore Vancouver like a local. Presented by Nüora and our friends at Skyrocket Digital. Connect with managing partner @joannachiu.bsky.social at #AAS2026 and ask about our Asia expert network. 🔗 tinyurl.com/56v9xj6y

Attention early career journalists! The Local is a fantastic digital magazine that does great reporting on local Toronto issues, staffed by a really great team of journalists. Fellowships include one for an early career Two-Spirit, trans, or non-binary reporter and one for photography.

The Local Magazine@thelocal.to · 5mo ago

📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 6mo ago

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

China’s biotech sector has surpassed the EU to become the world’s second-largest new drug maker. For global firms, opportunity lies in treating China as a co-innovation hub while maintaining safeguards. From Lizzi Lee and Huiyan Li in our newsletter nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/chinas-bio...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎 The Nüora Global team wishes everyone a year filled with success, happiness, peace, and good health! 春节快乐！祝大家万事如意，步步高升， 幸福安康 ! 新年快樂！祝大家萬事如意, 步步高升， 幸福安康 ！

Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation.... (Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?) wapo.st/4abXa5w

"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma

It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.

lnk.thebulwark.com

The latest AI freelancer scam, caught by @soleilho.com. As the real Scott Nover says in this piece, credibility is everything for journalists: "When our credibility is undermined or eroded, our jobs — which require us to convey factual information — become much, much harder.”

How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI

The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.

coyotemedia.org

Great summary of one person's obscene wealth and the things they prioritize. Thinking about how much Melania made from this deal vs the WaPo reporter who was just fired in the middle of a warzone. Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It's unbelievable how many things still leave me speechless with anger and sadness during these unfathomable times. Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see." Devastating.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 6mo ago

Don’t know what to trust on your feed? How did we get here? Next Thursday, @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social unpack the rise, backlash and future of counter-disinformation. Join us for a live Q&A on Discord. 11am EST / 5pm CET discord.gg/ApEnkSK6?eve...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

theatlantic.com

I'd rather not quote him, but moderates and the right need to hear his message and fury. "They are unprofessional pathetic COWARDS. Because if...an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court martialed, because it would be MURDER...You guys are criminal thugs."

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem. (Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.) The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.

I can not even begin to overstate how gobsmackingly shocked I continue to be (despite everything that's happened over the past decade and especially this past year) at the complete and absolute depravity, corruption, and unequivocal lack of moral decency, integrity, and humanity we are witnessing.

Matt McManus@mattpolprof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem. (Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.) The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 6mo ago

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

I actually find these figures incredibly depressing and deeply unsettling that it still has this much support.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 6mo ago

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

I love this much-needed thread so much.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.