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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17h

Wondering if any university instructors are actively promoting their classes as AI-Free yet

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 06/09/2026

Muted a Big Account and unfollowed the one that dragged the bad discourse into my feed, clearing up nicely

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 06/09/2026

Wow the discourse on here is bad today

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 26/08/2026

After a great Spring semester reading Jin Ping Mei with some talented undergrads and grads, we're doing it again with Journey to the West! I'll be reading the revised Yu translation and the newish Xinhua edition of the original Chinese, looking forward to both.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/08/2026

I’m curious, is it common in Philosophy to go from postdoc to postdoc, STEM style, after getting a PhD?

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Faculty don’t have lounges.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/08/2026

THIS RIGHT HERE (assuming the department is lucky enough to have an admin assistant….)

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/08/2026

Where is this "faculty lounge" they keep talking about, anyway?

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 27/07/2026

Harvard's online CS50x Intro to Computer Science course is brilliant, you battle through C until you switch to the higher-level Python in Week 6. When you get there, it's such a relief, but you have a better understanding of what's going on under the hood.

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now available! Tracing the evolution of poetry’s role in Chinese society, WRITING EMPIRE AND SELF uncovers the profound cultural changes that took place in the early medieval era. buff.ly/aDU4pf7 #Poetry #EastAsia #History

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17/07/2026

I like to imagine a Wes Anderson Story of the Stone

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/07/2026

Finally got my hands on this, favorite sinological book in a while

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 13/07/2026

From what I’ve heard, I’m sticking with the Roberts, for academic reasons. It’s always been received well enough in my classes, and I think it’s likely more precise.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 15/06/2026

Saw him perform at Kamigamo shrine in Kyoto, life-changing.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 05/06/2026

Has anyone read the Martin Palmer translation of Three Kingdoms? How does it compare to Roberts?

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Where are my Journey to the West/ 西游记 fans? I have a question: In Chapter 54, in the Country of Women, there's a scene where Sun Wukong promises that Tang Sanzang will marry the queen, as a way of stalling for more time. The monk gets upset at him for this and Wukong gives a little speech:

”行者道：“你若使住法儿不允他，他便不肯倒换关文，不放我们走路。倘或意恶心毒，喝令多人，割了你肉，做甚么香袋啊，我等岂有善报？一定要使出降魔荡怪的神通，你知我们的手脚又重，器械又凶，但动动手儿，这一国的人，尽打杀了。他虽然阻当我等，却不是怪物妖精，还是一国人身；你又平素是个好善慈悲的人，在路上一灵不损：若打杀无限的平人，你心何忍，诚为不善了也."

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 21/05/2026

I’m not going to detract from Deep Springs, which is amazing, but please NYT check out what some land grant universities are doing sometime:

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It's what we do: CALES

YouTube video by UArizona CALES

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 20/05/2026

This is gonna be a chapter in some future dissertation for sure

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 20/05/2026

Eric Schmidt spoke at U of Arizona, not ASU; ASU got Harrison Ford!

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17/05/2026

There was already controversy about Schmidt on campus on two fronts: First, the allegations against him. Second, the granting of an honorary doctorate upon him that seemed to bypass the usual faculty governance vetting process.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 18/05/2026

Also: students were already mobilizing against his speech (handing out flyers, etc.) due to the allegations against him, it wasn't just the AI comments spontaneously setting people off

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 15/05/2026

Sketchy HDCD, I forgot about that!

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 15/05/2026

Universal Clipboard has always been my go-to solution for this, copy on Mac and paste to Pleco on iPad. Now iPhone Mirroring is another great way to get a “macOS” Pleco.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/05/2026

I had willingly surrendered “dive deeper” but I’m holding the line for “delve”

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/05/2026

First they came for our em-dashes, now they want our lists-of-three, what's next? Or are we safe because that would make there....

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 13/05/2026

We are down three premodern Chinese positions over three years here—two in Buddhism and one in early thought and history….

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 10/05/2026

Oops that was a typo, meant Canvas (the LMS that got hacked) not Canva (the graphic design tool)

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/05/2026

better than had I tried to set them out in advance or to lecture on them. An immense privilege to read and learn with these students. Don't count the humanities out just yet!

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/05/2026

The goal: Read Plum in the Golden Vase. That's it, that's the syllabus (not really but still). Students presented each week. No secondary scholarship was assigned, but was sought out to answer questions that arose in class discussion. We got around to all the usual suspects from the field,

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/05/2026

At a time when everything I read about higher ed is The Ongoing Crisis™--diminishing attention spans, poor literacy, AI threats, cuts, etc--reading a long novel like Plum in the Golden Vase with a handful of smart, motivated undergrad and grad students was just fantastic this semester. Made my year.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17/04/2026

New Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Nails (Noize)? In the same week?? What year is it???

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

If it was the filter, was it explicitly outlined as such in the course description?

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

I’m sure it stopped any concerns about meeting the language requirements!

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

I’ve heard similar things. Or places with direct admission to the PhD with the expectation that MA requirements are met along the way (and the possibility of “mastering out” if the department is not convinced of potential). Not sure how coursework etc. works in such cases.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

On the other hand, at this point in time, it’s hard to recommend a two-year MA as a prerequisite to a six- or seven-year PhD program

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

The loss of FLAS is going to have a terrible impact on this infrastructure. Ugh.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

Pretty much my case as well, though the “funding” was a TAship

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

Princeton is a great example. MA not *required* for PhD admission, but offhand I can only think of one or two people who were admitted straight from BA.

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