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This story reveals how exorbitant and inept companies like VFS Global and FedEx can be. Due to their negligence, my entire summer is ruined, conferences will be missed, and I won't see my loved ones who eagerly awaited my arrival.

Wrote about the end of affirmative action and the very weird but expected fact that nobody’s really talking about the Asian plaintiffs or the extremely obvious discrimination they faced newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

"Singapore is much richer than the UK" 🙃

Hong Kong is really regressing further. Sad.

Turns out this wasn't a graphical illustration of the minimax theorem 😮‍💨

Good piece by Yuhan Zhang on China's strategic industrial policy: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… via CEPR

Wonder how the 'patriots-only ' legislature will react (today and when the bill comes up in two years' time....)

It's about the system. Research fraud thrives when a field rewards single 'surprising' findings and there are low incentives for replication. The problem is not enough formal theory.

Conjecture, proof, counterexample

Our next event is this Mon, 30 Oct: Andrew Little (Berkeley) presents "Communication and Coordination in the Shadow of Repression", with Tak-Huen Chau and Mai Hassan. NOTE: The UK is moving clocks this weekend. Check 3pm in your time zone! @anthlittle Tak-Huen Chau Mai Hassan

Lawyers discriminate against Black and Hispanic potential clients. #AuditStudiesFTW papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Congratulations to you, Nymphia Wind Nymphia Wind 妮妃雅瘋, for being so accomplished in the difficult art form of drag, and for being the first Taiwanese to take the stage and win on RuPaul's Drag Race. Right after being crowned queen, you said “Taiwan, this is for you.” Taiwan thanks you

New paper with Mai Hassan @anthlittle! Check out how a twist on the classic Colonel Blotto game (via Bob) can tell us some cool dynamics on technologies and protests. (Also Easter eggs included 🪺)

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

We are proud to announce that we have become an official related group of the American Political Science Association‼️Please join our group through the official link: apsanet.org/resources/rela…

Silver lining: this will probably bring Americanists even closer to Comparativists in the field of political science.

My initial take on Trump's win: goodauthority.org/news/where-to-… His gains were widespread, so explanations should start with the broadest factors -- not with bespoke stories about states, cities, counties, and groups. The simplest explanation: party of unpopular incumbent loses. 1/2

If you have any works on Hong Kong politics from any perspectives/approaches, plz consider submitting your abstract to GRAPH APSA panel! We are a new related group and this is our first year hosting our own panels. If u dun study HK, spreading the message would also help!