Wang Feng

[Wang Feng @ulywang]

26 Years Ago An American Found A Chinese Woman Living In The Desert - To... https://t.co/JglF2uxba8 via @YouTube

[Nova @PSa_Cheng]

On Sept. 25, 2025, I anonymously posted about an experience, where a professor instructed a research assistant to remove data that didn’t align with the professor’s predictions.

A practice called “cherry-picking”. A common way to falsify data.

Just 11 days later, on Oct. 6, I was called into a meeting with the Director of Graduate Studies, Yael Niv, and Department Chair, Casey Lee-Williams, and was informed I had been removed from the lab.

In that post,
I never named the professor.
I never identified myself as the RA.
I even used “he” instead of “she” to conceal the professor’s gender.

Yet, the professor, Sabine Kastner, immediately recognized the post was about her.

When I asked:

“How did she know the post was referring to her?”

The DGS’s response was:

“That’s very obvious, right?”

I replied: “so she admitted it? I described a very specific behavior. Only the person who did it could recognize.”

They didn’t respond directly, and just shifted the topic to how I questioned SK’s integrity.

Which I have every right to.

Note the timeline:
September 25, 2025 - I published the anonymous post.
October 6, 2025 - I was removed from the lab.

I ask Sabine Kastner and @Princeton to respond publicly with factual answers:

1. Why did Sabine Kastner believe the anonymous post referred to her?

2. What was Sabine Kastner afraid the post would reveal?

3. What steps were taken to protect me from retaliation?

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics #ScientificIntegrity #Whistleblower #AcademicFreedom #AcademicRetaliation #PhD #GraduateStudents #PrincetonUniversity

[The University of Hong Kong @HKUniversity]

Congratulations to HKU Mathematics Chair Professor Xuhua He on his election as Vice President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)!

The youngest Vice-President to join the Union’s leadership in nearly two decades, Professor He is only the second Chinese mathematician to hold this prestigious position since the IMU’s inception.

Professor He is an internationally acclaimed leader in Lie theory, arithmetic geometry, and representation theory. In 2013, he was awarded the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, widely regarded as the “Chinese Fields Medal”, and in 2022 he received the Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory — the field's highest international honour — becoming the only mathematician based in China to achieve this distinction to date.

The IMU is the premier global authority in mathematics. In his role on the IMU's core Executive Committee, the Vice-President will be instrumental in shaping global strategies for mathematical development, while overseeing the organisation of the International Congress of Mathematics and the selection of major international awards.

#hku #UniversityofHongKong #mathematics #IMU #香港大學 #港大 #數學

[Yi Ma @YiMaTweets]

Just came back from ICML. Gave a keynote at the Foundation of Deep Generative Models Workshop, in which I stated that Intelligence should be a scientific subject, arguably much more significant than Physics. It is high time we study it with the same scientific methodology and mathematical rigor as modern physics, instead of always at the level of being empirical, meta physical, meta mathematical, philosophical or speculative... This remains as the biggest opportunity ever for young scientists. To my knowledge, this is not the focus of any of the frontier "AI" companies.

[The University of Hong Kong @HKUniversity]

Congratulations to Professor Jiangnan Zhu (@jiang_nan_zhu) on the publication of her new Cambridge Element volume! Performance and patronage have long been the standard lens for studying political promotion in China. This book adds a third: purchase.

Check out Professor Zhu’s open access book below:

https://t.co/cdCB24eb3u

[The University of Hong Kong @HKUniversity]

Researchers from @hkumed have found that using a commonly used pain killer (paracetamol or acetaminophen) during pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention‑deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children.

This represents the first study in Hong Kong to apply a rigorous sibling-matched approach to compare siblings from the same mother to effectively account for shared genetic and environmental influences. The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, offer timely reassurance for expectant mothers and clinicians in Hong Kong and globally regarding the safety of paracetamol use during pregnancy.

Read more:

https://t.co/zYyTuYSvZ8

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

I am pleased to introduce the Chinese Invisible Cities Index (CICI) - some Friday fun. 😏

These aren't the smallest or poorest cities. These are the cities with the least aura vs. their population.

They make you say: "wait, I've never heard of it and it has HOW many people?"🧵

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

This argument keeps misdescribing what China’s actual sources of competitiveness are, then treating those bad descriptions as explanatory.

Rather than rebut every bad conclusion, it's more useful to identify and refute the false premises causing most of the damage. Let's go:🧵

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

I rarely post these kinds of charts because national comparisons are basically an invitation for people to get emotional and defensive.

But it must be noted that with similar population sizes, China's power generation per capita is now ~5x India's (and drawing close to OECD levels). Put another way, for India to reach similar per capita usage, it would need to produce ~5x more power than it does today.

This highlights an incredible dilemma: After India, there are still several billion more people who will also want more power...

- Brazil and Vietnam must 2x to hit China levels
- Indonesia must 5x
- Philippines must 7x
- Bangladesh and Pakistan must 10x
- Nigeria must 37x
- Ethiopia must 51x

The "energy transition" for already energy-rich countries is a big question - but it's just the lead-in for an even bigger, more challenging question: How do you assure power supply to support future demand for the billions of people in nations still trying to industrialize?

Without scalable and affordable energy solutions for the future, there's a good chance that China ends up being the last country to ever really make that leap.

[Kaiser Kuo @KaiserKuo]

This is a must-read for all those involved in debates with the current account determinists. Quite a tour de force. https://t.co/8bJK7JipjG

[Tianyu M. Fang @tianyuf]

My essay today in @NoemaMag explores the resurgence of U.S. militarism in the tech industry and Silicon Valley’s newfound nostalgia for its role in the military-industrial complex. The largest employer in Santa Clara County was, in the 1960s, Lockheed Missiles and Space.

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

The only thing OP should regret is misleading his followers with his clunky charts and sloppy, unsophisticated analysis.

He has sadly ignored more tactful efforts to correct these issues, so enough is enough. Time to be blunt...

Let's break it down in a long thread.🧵

[Matt Sheehan @mattsheehan88]

Are top Chinese AI researchers leaving 🇺🇸 and going back to 🇨🇳?

Lately some researchers made a splash when they took their talents back to China, but I wanted to know how common that is.

So I went back to a dataset I gathered in 2019 on career paths of top AI researchers. 1/x

[Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech]

Wrong Brad. The Chinese are responding directly to US escalation on export controls with the 50 percent Rule rolled out last week. It was clear they would respond to this, which was a clear violation of the agreement in Madrid not to take new measures. This was a deliberate move by those favoring decoupling at Commerce to up the ante, and neither the White House or Commerce were fully informed, let along about the potential, actually, certainty that Beijing would respond. Let's get the causation straight here, there is enough bad analysis of this situation out there.

[Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty]

1/ A repatriated Korean worker from the Hyundai-LG battery factory secretly wrote a detention diary about their 7-day experience in ICE custody in Georgia. The worker says ICE officers mocked them with words like as "North Korea" and "Rocket Man" despite holding a business visa.

[Yiwen Lu @itsyiwenlu]

Microsoft internal email revealed H1-B overall win rate as 15% for their cap cases, compared to last year’s 25%. The company’s large sample size usually makes it a good estimate for overall rate (last year’s overall is 26.4%). Wow, this lottery is almost impossible.