Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 29/09/2026If Cyberdyne didn't warn about the possibility of Skynet learning at a geometric rate and going to war against humanity in their annual report, they could be hit with a HUGE shareholder lawsuit. 000
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 28/09/2026I'm really pleased to see these very thorough responses by sociologists at Chicago to the Wash U/Vanderbilt report. 1/6 130
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 27/09/2026Today I finally accomplished something I've wanted to do for a while: ride a bike from PKU to the 2nd Ring Road, do a complete loop, and come back out. 50.2km in 4.25 hours. All on a Meituan share bike. 1/2 1140
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 26/09/2026The US/China tech race is over and I'm calling it for China based on this: Jianbing 煎饼 making robots, powered by AI. Video in next post 1/2 3177
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 17/09/2026From the man who in 2013 said "“Over time, the rise of the Internet will inexorably diminish the role of money in politics". That didn't work out so well. I don't think any of his prognostications about tech have worked out, why should we listen to him on this? 030
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 04/09/2026Exactly this. I often run into non-academics who assume that as a white male in academia I must live in terror of wokeness, and I try to tell them about people like this guy who should have been fired years ago, and then they tell me I don't know what things are really like. 1/2 150
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 04/09/2026We need a term for the situation where you put off preparing a slide deck because you're pretty sure you can reuse slides from a talk you gave a year ago, but then the day before the talk when you open up that slide deck, it turns out that you imagined everything and there are no usable slides. 040
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 03/09/2026I have no problem with people who turn down review invitations, or never reply. What I do find very frustrating is invitees who commit, and then when the deadline passes, ghost us, requiring us to go out and look for new reviewers. 1/5 240
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 31/08/2026Not a coincidence that here in HK the size and quality of the applicant pools for undergraduate and postgraduate study, and for regular faculty searches, has been skyrocketing. 040
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science @hkustshss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Congratulations to Prof. Chi-Keung Chan, who has been awarded the Young Scholars' Creativity Award 2026. The award, founded by Nobel Laureate Yuan-Tseh Lee and chaired by James C. Liao, supports innovative research by promising young Taiwanese scholars. #AcademicExcellence #Humanitiesfaos.org.twFoundation For The Advancement Of Outstanding Scholarship 011
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林HKUST School of Humanities and Social Science @hkustshss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Prof. Jenny Hung has written a chapter titled “Introspection in Early Buddhism“ in “The Routledge Handbook of Introspection“. This chapter argues sati in satipaṭṭhāna is introspection, beneficial for well-being and enlightenment. #Mindfulness #EarlyBuddhism #PhilosophyOfMind #BuddhistPsychologyapc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.comThe Routledge Handbook of IntrospectionIntrospection is fundamental and seemingly indispensable to understanding the conscious human mind. It is essential both to acquire and refine our knowledge of ourselves and to develop a philosophical... 061
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 26/08/2026I was just thinking the same thing. When I was growing up, Dolly Parton was a household name, but 90% of references to her were about her appearance, and it was not until much later that I understood what a tremendous talent and humanitarian she was. 050
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors.” chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students... 511130
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 9307175
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 24/08/2026The HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences is now on Bluesky! Make sure to follow to learn about the exciting work our colleagues and students are doing! bsky.app/profile/hkus...bsky.app 171
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 24/08/2026Participating in this meeting was a real pleasure. I really hope we can further develop collaborations and comparisons on the quantitative history of East and Southeast Asia. We had participants presenting work on China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam. BTW our School now has a bsky account! 041
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president 384788998
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive. 553560511
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 23/08/2026I read race science/hereditarian work while were working on a paper that was published in 1993 that came to conclusions opposite to those of the Bell Curve, published a year later. It was striking how bad the work was, with wild leaps of logic, 1/4 17012
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 22/08/2026All the Discourse about the new Reacher season is making me think I need to see it. I assume he continues his usual practice of killing minions and underlings before extracting useful information from them, so that it takes much longer for him to crack the case than it should? 100
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 22/08/2026Some older buildings in New York City from a few weeks ago camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 020
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 22/08/2026Some modern architecture in NYC a few weeks ago camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 040
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 21/08/2026Some pictures from a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 030
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 21/08/2026I've been reading the Economist for decades and still like it a lot but it seems like in the last few years they've been running more WTF pieces like the critique of Acemoglu. 1/2 211
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 21/08/2026Agreed. Great piece identifying problems facing universities in Taiwan. At some point in the past, maybe until the 90s, top universities there were on par with or better than ones in HK and SG, but since then a real gap has opened up. Salaries, research funding, governance... 101
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 21/08/2026Me, every morning when I open up Bluesky 030
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scientists & academics are generally experts in their very specific domain area, but are often no better informed or knowledgeable than the general public about other areas of specialization. Many, however, like to think they are. 0132
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 20/08/2026New bizarre internet conspiracy theory about Chinese history just dropped and it's a doozy, weirder than the 1644 Viewpoint: edition.cnn.com/2026/08/19/s...edition.cnn.comWhy is one corner of China’s internet insisting a golden era never existed? | CNNSomething weird has been happening on China’s internet. One small and vocal corner has been claiming the country’s most famous historical dynasty never existed. 210
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 20/08/2026Some pictures from a walk across the Manhattan Bridge a few weeks ago camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 010
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 19/08/2026Periodically I wake up at 3am with an ear worm of some song, or at least a chorus or hook, playing on repeat in my head, usually from a song I haven't heard in years. A couple months ago it was a 7 or 8 note sequence from a song I knew was from the 1970s, but I didn't know the name. 1/3 110
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 19/08/2026Worse scandals erupt every few months in academia, yet none of them trigger existential opining like this, even when they should. When a white man like Puliafito or Tessier-Lavigne gets busted, it's always treated as the story of a talented but flawed individual, 1/2 110
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Did the world’s first newspapers appear in medieval China? During the Song Dynasty, official bulletins and independent news sheets reported on politics, wars, disasters and court scandals to a growing audience. www.medievalists.net/2026/05/the-... #MedievalChinamedievalists.netThe World’s First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China - Medievalists.netLong before newspapers appeared in Europe, medieval China had printed publications reporting on politics, government decisions, scandals, and military affairs during the Song Dynasty. 0123
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 18/08/2026Pictures from a ride on the NYC Ferry from Roosevelt Island to Wall Street. Full gallery: camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 000
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16/08/2026The Williamsburg Bridge at the beginning of August camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 020
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16/08/2026A few pictures of Manhattan and Queens from Roosevelt Island camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 040
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16/08/2026Queensboro Bridge, on a cloudy day in July, seen from Roosevelt Island camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 010
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16/08/2026Some photos of the New Museum in NYC camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 010
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 16/08/2026Some views of Manhattan in late July, from Summit One Vanderbilt camerondcampbell.smugmug.com/North-Americ... 020
Reposted by Cameron D. Campbell 康文林sam @samthielman.com · 15/08/2026I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his. 61415377
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 14/08/2026Exactly this. Anyone who has been around a university long enough knows there have been cases where there was financial, research, or sexual misconduct far worse than what he was accused of that never triggered this kind of moral panic and incessant hounding. 030
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 13/08/2026Since I'm talking about jazz clubs in NYC in another thread, I should mention that I also saw a show at Django by the Cameron Campbell Trio. After the show on our way out we ended up next to Cameron Campbell, so I told him I was also named Cameron Campbell. 1/3 www.thedjangonyc.com/events/camer...thedjangonyc.comCameron Campbell TrioRising musical talent Cameron Campbell plays live at The Django Jazz Club and Restaurant in Downtown NYC. Reserve a table now! 121
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 08/08/2026Really sad to hear this. My dad taught computer science at IIT in the 80s and 90s. At the time it wasn't exactly rich but at least it was stable. As noted in the thread it served a lot of first generation and international students. 0185
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 05/08/2026You know what's gotten monotonically better since 1986? Air travel. Planes rarely crash now. They route planes around turbulence. They don't allow smoking on flights anymore. Newer planes are pressurized to lower altitudes and higher humidity. Tickets are cheaper. Security is much better. 040
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 03/08/2026I always wonder if the consultants who advise Dems/Labour took one intro Poli Sci course in college that covered the median voter theorem and instead of seeing it as description of a situation that only arises when ceteris parabis assumptions hold, they saw it as a brilliant strategy. 1/2 110