ten years ago I started writing something about Beijing, and love, and friendship, and what it is we really want out of life when there are so many things to want. today I get to scream this news from the rooftops: my novel, WANTING, is out next summer with Tin House!!!!!!!!

📰 personal update: I'm so happy to say I've accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at UW–Madison UW-Madison SJMC for next year. To return home to my alma mater is a privilege and a dream.

Just met the most awesome USA fan, Chuck, from Boynton Beach just outside Fort Lauderdale. Has never seen cricket in his life, but says he had to be here today. "I saw they beat Pakistan. I saw they're coming to Florida. Fuck, I need a fucking ticket! I gotta support the boys!"

🚀 Excited to share that our #ICA24 preconference, The Future of Computational Message Science, was a great success yesterday! Our speakers and panelists delivered fascinating talks, and the participants were very engaged. Thank you to everyone who made it an unforgettable event!

Also recommend this essay Hessler wrote for ChinaFile on the attacks on his reporting and on his integrity, from other China experts-chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

🎆🧨Very excited to publish my essay "Computational methods in Chinese Internet studies -- An overview and looking ahead", with other wonderful articles in the Special Issue on Thirty Years of the Internet in China👇. Shout out to the Center on Digital Culture and Society team! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Seriously, which would be more of a geopolitical flex: China beating the US at a prestigious event they’ve dominated for the previous 10 Olympics, or China dominating WADA so thoroughly that more than 25 tests over 10 days in Paris can’t expose a supposed Chinese doper?

Woof

The Associated Press is looking for a news researcher in its Beijing bureau. Responsibilities include assisting with research, reporting and translating in support of our journalism. Feel free to contact me with any questions! The deadline is August 22. careers.ap.org/job/Beijing-Ed…

I am on the academic job market 👩‍🏫! I am a PhD candidate at Stanford University, in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab Stanford VR. I study how groups interact in digital spaces using immersive technologies (VR/AR/MR), through in-lab and field experiments.