Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The unspoken role of China work was to only use your training to criticize China and not evaluate standards all countries should follow. Which. Fuck that lol. I’m going to be consistent 0151
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 899912571
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them. 272146772727
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103564411
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026the entirety of 2027 tech policy news is going to be this fear-mongering xenophobic bullshit they genuinely couldn't tell you what "winning" entails, outside of our biggest companies making as much money as possible completely free of accountability and oversightbloomberg.comBessent Warns ‘Nothing Else Would Matter’ If China Wins AI RaceTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the US faces dire consequences if it loses out in the AI race with China, highlighting the angst in Washington about its rival’s tech advances. 810732
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of the aims of democratic society is to prevent you from needing to know the proclivities of particular individuals in the Bay Area 439954
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.forever-wars.comToday We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations IgnoreRighteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner 161141429
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur 423969
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026All of this from Robin Kelley: robindgkelley.substack.com/p/the-crimes...robindgkelley.substack.comThe “Crimes” of Dr. Jason ArdayReckoning with Academic Double Standards 073
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Did you all know Chinese law has a 30 day "cool off period" before a divorce can be finalized? And that there is a carve out for domestic violence/abuse but only if a court recognizes it? And that Beijing's courts recognize about 6% of cases raised as abuse?northwardseaside.substack.comA Nation That Hunts Its WomenA Night in Chongqing, and the Country It Reveals 16423
Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026🎯 "U.S. policymakers, punditry, and the press for decades have endlessly talked a lot of shit about the threat of Chinese influence on tech, but as a country we're too stupid, corrupt and incompetent to actually understand or address it." 140
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is all about status panic & made worse by rising costs. The solution, again, is to Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. But the silly arms race about internships & "research" & nonprofits is entirely, as @tompepinsky.com said, about status or correlated with income: 37212
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026FFS, You don’t even have to look *outside Cambridge* for examples of white professors who have behaved far, far worse and not only kept their jobs, but have been protected and celebrated by both their institution and the media. 3681116
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye 26837281
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188814439
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s. 5973046587
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Mookie Alexander @mookiealexander.bsky.social · 05/07/2026"I think the biggest thing is that right now, trans people are being dehumanized. I’m kind of doing the opposite, I'm humanizing that experience.” I asked Prefontaine Classic mile winner and trans non-binary runner Nikki Hiltz about how the track and field community has supported them. 2399
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My mayor socialist My congresswoman socialist My city councilwoman socialist My state senator socialist My assembly member socialist Knicks in 5 1798073807
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 24/06/2026no disrespect to the STEM types but there used to be a joint in Beijing that would give you a free bowl of noodles if you could write 𰻞 by hand 59516
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com · 24/06/2026Alien Tort Statute aside, Cisco's complicity in building Great Firewall and enabling the targeting of FLG activists in China is undeniable. While Cisco was eventually supplanted by Chinese competitors, Golden Shield could not have got off the ground without it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS supreme court ends lawsuit alleging Cisco helped China pursue Falun GongSuit alleged California-based company developed technology that allowed China to surveil members of movement 285
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/06/2026In which the Deputy Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus joins in on the dunking of the former DNC Chair after NYC DSA candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani achieve a clean sweep of AIPAC and establishment-backed candidates up and down the ballots: 13494106
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race. 3945611214
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026🎯 304853809
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026My only regret is that Dolan gets to enjoy this 1648331
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026These crowd shots around New York are so fucking diverse. I fucking love this town 273153255
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It took Mamdani five months to get rid of the NYC deficit and oversee a Knicks title. 🫡 555876677
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016 163123452157
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I remember the China hawks telling us that we need to be concerned about Chinese tech because of the possibility of surveillance, so I'm sure they'll bring those concerns just as vigorously to this case as well 1195
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026If you look at the past 8 days, we’ve seen an assault on the entire knowledge pipeline in both the Executive Branch and the Legislature. Let’s start from the top. 🧵 The new 2 CFR controls who creates knowledge (grants) and how it’s disseminated (publication, conferences, etc) … 12610
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵) 55528
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026they do not like Mamdani and want him to fail, the same way they wanted him to lose to Cuomo: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...nytimes.comMamdani Is Under Pressure to Act Amid Slowing Job Growth in New York 23890121
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."leidendeclaration.aiLeiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and MathematicsThis declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research. 5307112
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers 432313409
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I haven't read this piece yet but this section captures a lot of my dissatisfaction with many trans and LGBTQ+ orgs, who seem to have settled into a rut of doing outreach for the Democratic party rather than acting independently of it. 39217
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 15/05/20269pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes 201903345
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer. 482731642
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Again, Xi/🇨🇳 may believe this, & we are stupidly trying to commit hegemonic suicide, but it's important to note that everything folks are rightly worried about in 🇺🇸 (aging personalist authoritarians, corruption, debt, repression, concentration camps, etc.) is far worse in 🇨🇳: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1018847
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1 because May loves pineapple and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if she doesn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too Chungking Express 重慶森林 dir. Wong Kar Wai #may1 411540
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026lol yes it’s me, China apologist 1072159166
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 26/04/2026A "young faculty stimulator" online game was launched in China in December 2025 and by January 2026, it had attracted 600k players. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhen career anxiety becomes gameplay: lessons from China’s ‘young-faculty simulator’A popular online game simulates life as an academic — and throws the challenges of being an early-career researcher into sharp relief. 0114
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 13/04/2026some of you really need to learn about the history of Catholicism, because liberation theology is back on the menu baby 1137250
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 24/04/2026A lot of people don’t realize that the Big Tech companies are, in many cases, drafting district-wide tech policies, installing friendly administrators, and awarding themselves lucrative contracts. 214069
Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I want this for my hometown (NYC) and for my adopted town (SF) 000
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/04/2026At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c 191058538
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping. 111710492
Reposted by Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/04/2026The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second. 206176572477