Yuan Zeng

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

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...
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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???

@leedsunimedia.bsky.social great work from our Int Journalism MA student Gabriel Kennedy

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

West Yorkshire Police “are sorry that the man involved is unhappy”…

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

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

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...

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.

"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."

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-...

I bet Juno is now celebrating the good riddance 😂

Thank you for this gorgeous photo of them! Sorry they didn’t get to say goodbye but both, particularly Pingpong will for sure miss you too!

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...

list of banned keywords

🚨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.

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...

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...

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

OMG Elon Musk is a Royal Society fellow?? @royalsociety.bsky.social

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…

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...

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”

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

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...