To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias

Google Translate can now recognise written te reo Māori and translate it

Dear news media: the name of China’s President is pronounced “POOH,” not “GEE”! (Seriously, how do they even come up with that pronunciation?)

Hundreds of Astronomers Denounce Arrest of Native Hawaiians Protesting Thirty Meter Telescope

Apollo 11: As They Shot It - The New York Times

Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight

How I write recommendation letters: 1. How do I know the applicant? 2. Why do I think their work is important? 3. Why are they the best person for the job/grant? 4. Something from their past which shows the depth of their commitment to this field, unique talents, or both.

高教工會銘傳大學分部正式成立！Taiwan Higher Ed Union – Ming Chuan University branch was established!

Google AI Created It’s Own Child AI, That Is Superior That Man Made Models (And so it begins…)

The Guardian view on Xinjiang: speak out, or be complicit (Unfortunately, a lot have chosen option b…)

Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management

Wanhua cat keeps an eye on Sophie

Writing is easy, it’s thinking that’s hard.

Editors at Taiwan’s pro-Beijing media take daily instructions directly from China, FT reports.

Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: ‘What’s Your Ethnicity?’

Taizong’s hell: A study collection of Chinese hell scrolls

Killing of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, African American Museum Founder, Stuns Baton Rouge (Hate crime?)

The forgotten Indian inventor who dazzled London (Love this story so much…)

Poll: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defining Democrats among crucial 2020 swing voters

AOC, Sanders, and Warren are the Real Centrists

Insurgent Empire by Priyamvada Gopal review – a superb study of anticolonial resistance

Human rights organizations based in Israel voice concern before Bundestag President over motion defining BDS as antisemitism

My sympathies to all the Indigenous scholars out there. I can only begin to imagine what it must be like to deal with people challenging the very concept of “indigeneity” every time you post something publicly. (And to those who feel the need to do the same here…please don’t.)

The Missing: Meet the families torn apart by China’s crackdown on Uyghurs

“India for the last five years has been in a state of internal siege“