It was such a delight chatting with Reece Andrew Ayers at TaiwanPlus News about astronomy, life in the Universe, and Taiwan's role in global astro projects!

Thanks also to Yu-Chen Lai for producing this really nice segment :)

Let me just say that while many aspects of Taiwan's legal system have gotten better, one thing that hasn't is how TECO and other officials demand documents that don't exist. Corporate, personal, marriage, etc.

When my wife applied for her spouse ARC, TECO Manila demanded she produce a state ID for me, a document I couldnt possibly have and which was not on the list of documents required.

外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼 needs to change. It's failing the people it is supposed to serve.

Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan (Chris Fan 范致忠) on the official publication day of his book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY. rb.gy/187j38 Columbia Univ Press

Great letter - irrespective of whether you agree or disagree with the protestors, the administrative assault on shared governance should alarm every academic.

Friends, the campaign is at $4,513 as of right now. ❤️🙏 Can we get to $5,000 today? It's $487 away. It would mean one of five family members has a way out of Rafah and to safety. For a campaign that was stalled for weeks, this is huge. Let's give people hope.

Full disclosure that @mhar4 & I have a book 'Revolutionary Taiwan' out w/Cambria Press in June 🙂 'In TW, the outcome of democratization was nothing less than revolutionary, producing a new, de facto nation & people that can be justly called Taiwanese' 6/ cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=11…

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

I would be remiss if I forgot to mention the new, eminently readable 'Taiwan Lives' by Prof Niki Alsford 🐋🌿🏝️💦✊️🇺🇦: 24 mini-biographies of key or illustrative figures from Taiwan's past and present. It's out through the new 'Taiwan and the World' series at University of Washington Press 8/

uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575…

A special Taipei MRT experience last night watching this sketch artist drawer late night riders.

'Now we are on the cusp of what is shaping up to be a boom in accessible works that introduce Taiwan to international audiences.' Catie Lilly on the Taiwan information gap and 'Taiwan' by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-demo…