Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing)
@ericderoulet.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition.
I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.
https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/
無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.
https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/
無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
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[REVIEW] “Taiwan’s Political Evolution and the Study of Comparative Politics as seen in 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Eric D. de Roulet
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (editors), Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization,…
chajournal.blog
I have a little book review out in @asiancha.bsky.social on Taiwan in Dynamic Transition by Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (eds.), mainly on how the anthology treats Taiwan as a country worth understanding in its own right and not merely as a subject of great powers conflict.
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seems bad
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
seems bad
Once again,
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Once again,
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Fewer International Students Came to the U.S. This Fall
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fewer International Students Came to the U.S. This Fall
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and visas, data reveals that new international student enrollment is down 17 percent since last fall. https://bit.ly/3JCkG16
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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When Beijing tried to restrict tourists to get political leverage over Taiwan it didn't work.
The thing is, most locals everywhere don't like tourists even if they spend lots of money (or because they spend lots of money)
The thing is, most locals everywhere don't like tourists even if they spend lots of money (or because they spend lots of money)
China and Japan are in a war of words over Taiwan – what happens next?
Japan’s hawkish new PM has angered Beijing after suggesting her country could become involved in a military conflict between China and Taiwan
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
When Beijing tried to restrict tourists to get political leverage over Taiwan it didn't work.
The thing is, most locals everywhere don't like tourists even if they spend lots of money (or because they spend lots of money)
The thing is, most locals everywhere don't like tourists even if they spend lots of money (or because they spend lots of money)
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“When a school’s own administrators intend to throw away every one of the uni’s depts in so much of the sum total of human knowledge…maybe the onus should be on them to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“When a school’s own administrators intend to throw away every one of the uni’s depts in so much of the sum total of human knowledge…maybe the onus should be on them to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”
As with past diplomatic spats, it'll be interesting to see whether Beijing's vocal reaction will successfully bully the other party or cause them to double down.
(I recall especially how more explicit threats against Taiwan have seemed to backfire for the most part.)
(I recall especially how more explicit threats against Taiwan have seemed to backfire for the most part.)
Row over Takaichi's Taiwan comment hits Chinese tourism to Japan
China's travel agencies start dropping tours to Japan
asia.nikkei.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As with past diplomatic spats, it'll be interesting to see whether Beijing's vocal reaction will successfully bully the other party or cause them to double down.
(I recall especially how more explicit threats against Taiwan have seemed to backfire for the most part.)
(I recall especially how more explicit threats against Taiwan have seemed to backfire for the most part.)
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sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![3.2 We do not have to ‘embrace the future’ & we can turn back the tide
It must be the sheer magnitude of [artificial neural networks’] incompetence that makes
them so popular.
Jerry A. Fodor (2000, p. 47)
Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection
of self-determination free from industry forces (Hajer and Oomen 2025; Stengers 2018; van Rossum
2025). Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying
and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They
embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments,
or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges,
and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” (Reynoldson et al. 2025, n.p., also Benjamin 2016; Campolo and Crawford 2020; CDH Team and Ruddick 2025; Garcia et al. 2022; Kelly et al. 2025; Lysen
and Wyatt 2024; Sano-Franchini et al. 2024; Stengers 2018). Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting
that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour
workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from
fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously
turns back. People can undo things; and we will (cf. Albanese 2025; Boztas 2025; Kohnstamm Instituut 2025; van Laarhoven and van Vugt 2025). Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill
our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreic4ypelru3ajlx3k5afms62uouf7khpvvfkpgsqwn3sknifwlf2xe@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Umberto Eco warned about EXACTLY this in 1995’s “Ur-Fascism,” and some of us have been warning about it ever since we first read it as it was widely circulated after 9/11
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Umberto Eco warned about EXACTLY this in 1995’s “Ur-Fascism,” and some of us have been warning about it ever since we first read it as it was widely circulated after 9/11
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
What if the tool has been explicitly designed to do harm, though?
The AI industry profits from deskilling people who would otherwise do their own writing and creating, all to create dependency on their products. (In fact, the article this person is engaging with explains the point quite well.)
The AI industry profits from deskilling people who would otherwise do their own writing and creating, all to create dependency on their products. (In fact, the article this person is engaging with explains the point quite well.)
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What if the tool has been explicitly designed to do harm, though?
The AI industry profits from deskilling people who would otherwise do their own writing and creating, all to create dependency on their products. (In fact, the article this person is engaging with explains the point quite well.)
The AI industry profits from deskilling people who would otherwise do their own writing and creating, all to create dependency on their products. (In fact, the article this person is engaging with explains the point quite well.)
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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貓兒房，近侍三、四人，專飼御前有名分之貓。凡聖心所鍾愛者，亦加升管事職銜。牡者曰「某小廝」騸者曰「某老爺」，牝者曰「某丫頭」
The Cat Office employed three or four attendants to feed cats of recognized status. Favorites of the Emperor received promotions: males were styled “pages;” females, “maids;” neutered cats were addressed in the manner of senior eunuchs.
The Cat Office employed three or four attendants to feed cats of recognized status. Favorites of the Emperor received promotions: males were styled “pages;” females, “maids;” neutered cats were addressed in the manner of senior eunuchs.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
貓兒房，近侍三、四人，專飼御前有名分之貓。凡聖心所鍾愛者，亦加升管事職銜。牡者曰「某小廝」騸者曰「某老爺」，牝者曰「某丫頭」
The Cat Office employed three or four attendants to feed cats of recognized status. Favorites of the Emperor received promotions: males were styled “pages;” females, “maids;” neutered cats were addressed in the manner of senior eunuchs.
The Cat Office employed three or four attendants to feed cats of recognized status. Favorites of the Emperor received promotions: males were styled “pages;” females, “maids;” neutered cats were addressed in the manner of senior eunuchs.
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Episode 2 of Stories From The States is live! This week, host @fitzsimon.bsky.social talks to a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain who was detained by ICE for 73 days.
Now, he shares his experience.
www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d...
#FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism
Now, he shares his experience.
www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d...
#FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism
73 days in ICE detention: an Ohio hospital chaplain speaks out | News From The States
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Episode 2 of Stories From The States is live! This week, host @fitzsimon.bsky.social talks to a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain who was detained by ICE for 73 days.
Now, he shares his experience.
www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d...
#FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism
Now, he shares his experience.
www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d...
#FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism
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Call for Proposals: North American Taiwan Studies Association' 31st Annual Conference, "Resonance/Dissonance — Taiwan Studies, Knowledge Production, and Power Asymmetry." June 26-28, IU Bloomington. Proposal deadline is December 31.
2026 Call for Proposals | NATSA Website
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November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Call for Proposals: North American Taiwan Studies Association' 31st Annual Conference, "Resonance/Dissonance — Taiwan Studies, Knowledge Production, and Power Asymmetry." June 26-28, IU Bloomington. Proposal deadline is December 31.
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We are seeking eight Chairs for Individual Paper sessions at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Review all the openings and role requirements at the conference website, then submit your application—the call will remain open as long as there are positions to fill.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We are seeking eight Chairs for Individual Paper sessions at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Review all the openings and role requirements at the conference website, then submit your application—the call will remain open as long as there are positions to fill.
buff.ly/UfqhOAO
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
A smart piece on the limits of cynicism in critical analysis, i.e., in critical thinking, the 'thinking' bit is just as operative as the 'critical' bit.
When Two American Analysts Lecture The Economist About China
A reaction to the backlash against David Rennie’s Beijing reporting
www.pekingnology.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A smart piece on the limits of cynicism in critical analysis, i.e., in critical thinking, the 'thinking' bit is just as operative as the 'critical' bit.
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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The NYT really spent all their time on the wrong emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The NYT really spent all their time on the wrong emails.
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People don't understand that every time you argue "don't go to graduate study if you're not independently wealthy" what you're really saying is "we have organized society such that graduate school is a great opportunity, but only for the independently wealthy, and basically I'm okay with this"
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
People don't understand that every time you argue "don't go to graduate study if you're not independently wealthy" what you're really saying is "we have organized society such that graduate school is a great opportunity, but only for the independently wealthy, and basically I'm okay with this"
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Nice read on the history of the jade cabbage from @whannyuanc
How a humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s most memorable treasures | CNN
Appearing on stamps, merchandise and plush toys, the diminutive jadeite carving is so popular it occupies its own room at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum.
edition.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nice read on the history of the jade cabbage from @whannyuanc
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if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.