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Yuan Zeng

@dryzeng.bsky.social
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Migrant, childless cat lady Associate Professor in journalism and political communication She/Her University of Leeds

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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This what good journalism looks like. “Their voices are rarely heard as many of them are wary of pursuing criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their asylum claims refused”
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Pledged! Please support quality independent local journalism if you can
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
RIP. WaPo
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Join us tomorrow for a discussion on Dr Siyuan Yin (SFU)‘s new book “Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China”. Event details here ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event... @leedsunimedia.bsky.social
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Research Seminar: ‘Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China’
Siyuan Yin’s ethnographic study explores how mediated labor activism advances worker mobilization, feminist activism, and counter-discourses amid China’s authoritarian constraints
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
ICE are raiding small restaurants in Chapel Allerton on a Friday night. Can’t believe this is happening but it is happening. Still, WHATS GOING ON???
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@leedsunimedia.bsky.social great work from our Int Journalism MA student Gabriel Kennedy
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
West Yorkshire Police “are sorry that the man involved is unhappy”… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’
Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point addressHeadline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
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Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
An inspiring essay—in Chinese and English—by the legendary Chinese journalist 江雪 in @mjdanganguan on how, in the end, the silenced in China will have their say. Read it and subscribe (for free) on substack. open.substack.com/pub/chinauno...
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那些未被杀死的,终将开口说话——向承鉴自传《炼狱归魂》获2024年博登书屋“最佳历史回忆文献档案奖”
The Unsilenced Will Eventually Have Their Say
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We here @citap.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @mariher.bsky.social & Kristóf Szombati, put together a timely and important reading list. Authoritarian Politics: How to Understand It and How to Resist It. We hope you'll read, reflect, and share this tool broadly. 1/ citap.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump White House redefines ‘the press’: “Whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster … if you are producing legitimate news content, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House” Seems small, huge ramifications! www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/whit...
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White House will reserve front-row seats in press briefings for influencers, podcasters, and others in “new media”
When she took the podium for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House press secretary in history. The 27-year-old New Hampshire native is the sixth working...
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What’s happening on Xiaohongshu now is PHENOMENAL. Ppl are tired of nationalistic doctrine from both sides, tired of being sandwiched between states and platform corporates, yearning for a borderless space for some authentic convo not orchestrated by either states or corporates, tho it won’t last
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Yuan Zeng @dryzeng.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
OMG Elon Musk is a Royal Society fellow?? @royalsociety.bsky.social
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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today 45 activists in HK were sentenced to a total of 245 years and six months in prison for trying to use democratic means (ie primaries) to contest an election. A generation of civil society leaders has been jailed. hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/b...
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Benny Tai, Joshua Wong among 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailed up to 10 years in landmark national security case
Pro-democracy activist Benny Tai has been jailed for 10 years over organising an unofficial primary election in 2020, as Hong Kong’s High Court delivered sentences in the city’s largest…
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yessssss! Journal editors and board members let’s do this! Folks on academic org committees! We can make the case to at the very least change the “Your Twitter handle” box on everything to something like “Your social media profile” #commsky I for one would be thrilled by “Share to Bluesky”
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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We are delighted to announce our next research seminar: "Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power", with Tiziano Bonini and @emilianotrere.bsky.social Wednesday 20 Nov, 3.45–5pm (UTC), ONLINE 💻 Details and registration: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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Research Seminar: Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power
This talk dives into how global workers and activists navigate and subvert platform power, revealing our resistance to algorithmic dominance while cautioning against romanticizing these efforts
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