Few subjects have stirred as much nationalistic debate across the Pacific as biotech. For our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks to Abigail Coplin and Chenjian Li about the power and limits of biotechnologies, and how the body becomes a geopolitical battleground and site for profit.

Episode 11 | To Feed and to Cure | Made in China Journal

The need for food and medicine is universal. Yet, few subjects have stirred as much nationalistic debates on both sides of the Pacific as the development and application of biotechnologies. Why, in a ...

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As a big fan of libraries, I was thrilled to learn about the work Hannah and @flexlibris.bsky.social are doing to give the public the critical information they’re looking for about the products tech companies are pushing on them. Support your local library (and library workers)!

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2w ago

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

A university cannot be a sanctuary for knowledge while serving as an agent of the border. As long as some students can be threatened with deportation, no one's academic freedom is secure. 20/

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

Daredevil: Born Again S3

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Even the so-called 'good' NYT columnists are committed to making classroom micro-politics national news while ignoring the manifold structural problems with higher ed. The @nytimes.com higher ed's coverage is a manifestation of PMC anxieties about universities, not a depiction of reality.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3w ago

“Grade inflation is as bad as they say, and it drains students’ transcripts of meaning, deprives professors of agency and turns schools into approval factories,” Frank Bruni writes. “We should be ashamed, and we should fix it.”

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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A Waymo in California allegedly called the cops on two teenagers for “drinking and shooting from the vehicle,” according to local police. Story here: www.404media.co/waymo-called...

we run a podcast that introduces challenging conversations on various topics. In march, I cohosted an episode of it where we talked to @yangyangcheng.bsky.social nuvoices.com/podcast/a-co...

btw im moderating a sexual harassment in politics/policy workshop at the end of the month and we will post a free summary/recap of information after it ends

Anti-Sexual Harassment Workshop · Luma

Content Warning: Please note, while this workshop’s topic is important, it will cover topics such as gendered violence and sexual harassment that might be…

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When your esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social has bought a new lens, it is part of an aunty's obligation to help the child practice📸

Thrilled to share this episode with Mengwei Tu, hosted by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social. We talked time inheritance, gender and educational mobility in and out of China. A conversation that brought out thinking I had not anticipated. 🎙️ madeinchinajournal.com/2026/06/29/e... @madeinchinajournal.com

Episode 10 | The Race for Education | Made in China Journal

For millions of children in China, life has been a race against time since the day they were born. They are blasted with advertisements that warn ‘Do Not Lose at the Starting Line’, and handed by thei...

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Such a great experience to discuss inherited time inqualities in education and mobility across China with @madeinchinajournal.com @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! Wonderful conversation and lots of new insights for me!

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · last mo.

What drives Chinese children to study overseas, and how do they and their parents plan around shifting immigration regimes? For the our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with sociologists @coralinglingxu.bsky.social and Mengwei Tu about education and mobility in and out of China.

What drives Chinese children to study overseas, and how do they and their parents plan around shifting immigration regimes? For the our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with sociologists @coralinglingxu.bsky.social and Mengwei Tu about education and mobility in and out of China.

Episode 10 | The Race for Education | Made in China Journal

For millions of children in China, life has been a race against time since the day they were born. They are blasted with advertisements that warn ‘Do Not Lose at the Starting Line’, and handed by thei...

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Please read and share widely this first ever interview between two writers with non-speaking autism. (One is my son, the other is his good friend Woody Brown, a Columbia MFA and the author of the best-selling UPWARD BOUND.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/wood...

Nonspeakers Speaking Out | Los Angeles Review of Books

Woody Brown discusses his debut novel and the challenges those with nonspeaking autism face today.

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University of Hong Kong student publication Undergrad shuts down after 74 years 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/06/29/u...

I hate that this — urgent pleas to save prestigious departments from drastic cuts — is becoming a regular occurrence. A program like this takes decades to build and a few strokes of a pen to destroy.

Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

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The retraction of Max Planck papers looks more like Springer Nature using badly tuned copyright management tools as a proxy for information integrity tools.

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · last mo.

What in the actual fuck

Three days after Springer Nature sold Scientific American without warning, the NLRB conducted our scheduled union vote count, despite Springer Nature’s attempt to stop it. And guess what? WE WON. What’s more, it was nearly unanimous, with 31 out of 32 voters checking YES.

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

A thread on Duanwu 端午

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · last yr.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month— #端午 #Duanwu —we commemorate the death of the poet-minister Qu Yuan 屈原. Exiled from the kingdom of Chu for his fierce opposition to Qin (which did indeed, as he predicted, demolish all, in its imperial ambition), he drowned himself in the Miluo River. 1/

Have you listened to 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, the monthly podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly, yet?😉 We launched last year. Find all current and future episodes here or on your favorite podcast platform: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

Alex Dukalskis@alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is the best Chinese politics/current events type podcast these days?

Have you listened to 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, the monthly podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly, yet?😉 We launched last year. Find all current and future episodes here or on your favorite podcast platform: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

Alex Dukalskis@alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is the best Chinese politics/current events type podcast these days?

Myself and @solarina.ca talked to @yangyangcheng.bsky.social recently bsky.app/profile/nuvo...

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:

"For those of us who are spared the firsthand trauma of 1989, venturing into the forbidden is only the first step. Outside of China, Tiananmen is not at risk of being forgotten, but awareness does not equate to understanding." How may novels honor the legacy of June 4? I write @chinabooksreview.com:

Tiananmen in Fiction | China Books Review

After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right?

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37 years after #June4, who gets to write about it, for whose consumption, and to what end? For @chinabooksreview.com, I examine Tiananmen in novels. The real question is not whether historical accuracy can give way to poetic license, but what truths are sought and revealed by the imaginary accounts.

Tiananmen in Fiction | China Books Review

After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right?

chinabooksreview.com