Research led by LKCMedicine Dean Prof. Joseph Sung links Streptococcus anginosus to stomach cancer. This common bacteria can promote cancer growth but disrupting its surface protein reduces its effects. 🔬🦠
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#lkcmedicine #CancerResearch

Thrilled to have presented my work on second generation Gulf immigrants in Doha Georgetown University in Qatar today.

My book, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression, is out with Illinois Press ! My argument for the book is simple: Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population but it's made so through the psychological technologies of racecraft.🧵

The Israeli defense minister said: “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel.'

Netanyahu said that Israel is only allowing in the absolute minimum amount of aid.

Tragically, they have lived up to those words.

I am going to give my 8th book talk in Taiwan on 30 April (18:20-20:00), at National Chung Hsing University! Tsunghan Wu has kindly agreed to act as the discussant!

Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new friends in Taiwan! 😌

Happening now. sunflower/ umbrella movement 10 yrs anniversary forum at NTNU. Jeff Wasserstrom speaking.

When defense contractors pad their profits, fewer weapons reach Ukrainians on the frontlines.

Such greed doesn’t just cost U.S. taxpayers; it costs Ukrainian lives.

Congress must rein in war profiteering, take back excess payments, and create a tax on windfall profits.

In finals week in Singapore universities, new ritual innovations emerge.

Ever wonder how #cloves , the spice that launched a thousand Dutch East India Company ships, entered China 1000 yrs before Dutch contact?
Our blog at Digital Orientalist, describes how we use DH to re-index historical data, and model ancient networks of traditional knowledge.

Polyglotasianmedicine.com wins 2nd runner-up Best Dataset in DH Awards 2023.
Big congrats to contributors, Faizah Zakaria & Chris Khoo! Great result, running alongside big institutions like Princeton University Library.

Thank you DH Awards and to everyone who voted! dhawards.org/dhawards2023/r…

(JOB OPPORTUNITIES)

I am hoping to hire a full-time Research Associate (1 year) to help with my Hong Kong water project, starting in June/July if possible.

For more information, please go to :
mycareersfuture.gov.sg/job/sciences/r…

Wow. This is quite something.

165 years of laws of war erased.

Another chapter of the monstrosity that will mark this century.

Powerful and succinct. This is the exact type of critical and decolonial analysis of Israel/Palestine that Zionists in Canada are desperate to censor, police, criminalize, or reverse (by claiming anti-racism is the *real* racism). It is all falling apart now.

𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐇 just reviewed Polyglotasianmedicine.com here:
reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/polyglot-a…

Thanks to Roopika Risam, PhD, Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, Stacey Reardon, ヨコヤマ セツコ, Vivienne Lo and Miguel Escobar Varela @[email protected]. This kind of publication super helpful for #DigitalHumanities work!

I’ll present on “The Elastic Co-Ethnic: Multifaceted Southeast Asian Diaspora in early reform era Shenzhen” at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute 26 March 😊hope to see u online or in person iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/the…

This first article of our water history project is out!! It is a co-authored article by Jack Greatrex and me on Urban History . If you are interested in reading 'Catchwater Colonialism', click the link below- it is open access!

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It’s time for all of us who care about human rights to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Now.

Polyglotmedicine.com, the world's largest corpus of online, manuscript-derived Chinese medical texts, is up for vote at DH Awards.
So is the toolset behind the project, #DocuSky .

Click and vote in 2 minutes to encourage this amazing project!
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Please vote for Polyglotasianmedicine.com at DH Awards, under Best Dataset.
Please also vote for #DocuSky under Best Tools. They help host our corpus, the largest manuscript-based set of Chinese medical texts in the world.
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