Larry Au

Asst Professor of Sociology @CityCollegeNY @CUNY, PhD @Columbia | Politics of expertise in science and medicine

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.

[Emma Zang 臧熙璐 @DrEmmaZang]

New piece out today in Science.

Remote work gave many people flexibility. It also changed how workers build everyday connection, support, mentoring, and belonging.

In the piece, we argue that work has long served as a form of social infrastructure. As remote and hybrid work become more common, organizations need to design social connection more intentionally instead of assuming it will happen on its own.

Read our Perspective here:
https://t.co/pMjfisusAE

[Juan Acevedo-Ossa @huanacevedo]

The goal of our Summer Fellowship program is to enable CUNY graduate students to gain firsthand experience of life in China and to meet Chinese graduate students and academics.

Our fellows are having an amazing time this year!

@RBIIS @larryau

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed what they say is the “world’s first” nasal spray for rapid emergency treatment of stroke.

[Juan Acevedo-Ossa @huanacevedo]

Apply!

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

Spoke with Linda Kinstler for this new NYT Magazine piece about the California State University’s AI boondoggle. It’s a meticulous deep dive containing no hype. Dek: “California’s public university system spent $16.9 million on A.I. The result has been chaos.”

Link below

[Larry Au @larryau]

Register for free: https://t.co/9ygqYWsBXY (go to the bottom of page click “register now")

[Larry Au @larryau]

Please join us for a virtual symposium on Rewiring the Medical Network of Expertise organized with RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups at the International Sociological Association from June 16 to 18.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

A warning from the president of MIT:

“the nation’s research enterprise is shrinking. Scientific funding is drying up. And the funds Congress recently allocated for science are not actually flowing”

“At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed. Speaking for my own institution, compared to this time last year, MIT has experienced a decline in campus research activity funded by federal awards of more than 20%.”

[Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies @RBIIS]

Our China at CUNY Initiative (CACI) Fellow, Amalia Torrecillas, reflects on the role of CACI in her teaching

https://t.co/GPtihJ0OCe

[Maya Wang 王松蓮 @wang_maya]

The right to leave one's country is a basic human rights, one that sadly the Chinese govt has been increasingly violating whether we're talking about Uyghurs as a group or top AI talents https://t.co/RzmaOQFX7T

[Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @Yaqiu]

Nothing will push top AI talent away faster than telling them they are not allowed to leave. The CCP just can't win people's hearts because, at its core, it is a control freak.

[indianamal @profpookie]

i had a student last year who did not know how to download a pdf from the course website and open it to read at a later time; thus he also did not know how to highlight and underline on said pdf. there's an actual crisis too few are willing to acknowledge, much less address.

[nature @Nature]

This viral trend of satirical journals is highlighting the intense competition in Chinese academia

https://t.co/LsiUhywKga

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The new issue of Daedalus, the open-access Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is chock full of good material on AI. w/@demishassabis @ylecun @alondra @pushmeet and so many others
I wrote about the future of AI-facilitated medicine
https://t.co/UMPKLcpuq5

[Joao Pereira @jdpereira]

Science has always been built on collaborative efforts.

[Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen]

The NYT is hiring a China science reporter, to be based in Taipei or Seoul.

Interesting job for anyone with science reporting/comms experience and Chinese literacy.
https://t.co/MXHNumlFbh

[Chris Hoofnagle @hoofnagle]

Berkeley law has introduced a new, much stricter AI policy
https://t.co/wlNs2cUrKz

[Anouk @askimono]

As foreign journalists in China we all knew we were being tracked. But it still is a weird sensation to come across a test system for tracking foreign nationals with mugshots, passport info and other data on me and other China (former) China correspondents.