Larry Au
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Asst Professor of Sociology @CityCollegeNY @CUNY , PhD @Columbia | Politics of expertise in precision medicine, Long Covid, China & global science
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Teaching a new course at CCNY this spring on 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮. Looking forward to diving deeper into these books and learning outside of my immediate area of expertise!
Syllabus here:
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Such powerful words from
@alondra
🙌🏼
“Science at its core is a social phenomenon. It reflects people, our relationships, and our institutions. When we provide input to the algorithm, when we program the device, when we test and research. We are making human choices.”
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Walked by a crowd of hundreds heckling Regina Ip in Central as
@hkpoliceforce
escorts her with pepper spray and tear gas at ready. They’re caling her a “traitor of Hong Kong”
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So excited to be teaching this new class on 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 this fall! I’ve wanted to teach a survey course with these book for a while now!
Syllabus here:
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Meet the invisible Hong Kong taxi drivers risking danger to help anti-government protesters escape police – for free:
Some ‘protest drivers’ say they help because they can’t be at the front lines themselves – others said had simply seen too much violence
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Successfully defended my dissertation yesterday at
@columbiasoc
!
Grateful to my committee Gil Eyal,
@JayDeeDubyu
,
@alondra
,
@Yangguobin
, and Amy Zhou for their wisdom and advice. Many more friends, family, and colleagues to thank for their support during this long journey.
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Very fortunate to be joining the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York in the Fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology!
Looking forward to working with my new colleagues and the wonderful students at
@cpowellschool
@CityCollegeNY
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.
@ewarren
has a plan for
#HongKong
:
1. Stop export of gear/surveil tech to
@hkpoliceforce
until investigation
2. Protected status for HK-era in US
3. Promote dialogue btwn Beijing/HK protesters
4. Raise HK at UN
5. Freeze Chinese state assets in US
Senator Elizabeth Warren writes in
@ForeignPolicy
, with specific proposals concerning Hong Kong:
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District Councils aren’t powerless. They interface w/ government departments on community matters ranging from transport, environment, & welfare broadly defined. These are issues that the protests touch on: from shutting of MTR stations, use of tear gas, & police relations.
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Crazy that riot police have taken over New World Plaza, a mall I frequent w/ my grandmother. Protesters are actively fighting back (throwing umbrellas/helmets), forcing them to retreat. A protester places himself between projectiles and police to let them retreat.
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Several hundred here in Time Square in New York City rallying in support of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition law protest today
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Sociology journals should follow. Including bibliographies in word count means that at times, only "canonical" works are cited and references to studies by marginalized scholars are sometimes cut when seen as "less important".
References in the bibliography no longer counted against the word limit at
@AJPS_Editor
. Seems like the right move. I expect other journals will follow.
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On morning Commercial Radio show
Host: Trump just signed the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act
Co-host: How do you know? Could be fake news. Lots recently
Host: I saw news reports
Co-host: Could still be fake
Host: It’s on CNN, CNBC, BBC... it’s on the White House site
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TVB is taping a segment at this mall in Hung Hom where I get dim sum with my grandmothers, some protesters crash the show chanting that “TVB is betraying Hong Kong”
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Hong Kong's police insisted on entering a university
#PolyU
to arrest people. This is the result. Risking the lives of protesters as young as 12 years old, reporters, and first aid medics present
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If recyclers don’t accept empty glass bottles, doesn’t this mean more bottles in circulation?
another genius move by the HK Gov: recyclers said they’ve been told by the government to accept fewer glass bottles, presumably to stop ppl getting their hands on them for molotovs 💯
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4 am here in Hong Kong but these results are shocking. Gains made by the pro-democracy camp should give Beijing pause when pursuing its hardline response, and Hong Kong’s government can no longer point to a “small number of radicals” who demand change
With just half of the 452 constituencies across
#HongKong
having announced their results, Stand News reports that the pro-democracy camp has obtained a landslide 197 seats compared to the pro-Beijing camp's 24.
The pro-democracy camp only won just over 100 seats in 2015.
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“It matters who’s making these choices. It matters who they’re thinking about when they do. That’s why in my career I’ve sought to understand the people & perspectives of communities who aren’t always in the room when the inputs are made but who live with the outputs nonetheless”
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Liking this new Chugani: "Reunification’s biggest failure is Beijing’s mistaken belief that it can rule Hong Kong with [an authoritarian] mindset. Surely, after 22 years, it should understand that to rule Hong Kong, it needs to think like Hongkongers."
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Friend at Sogo, Causeway Bay just sent me this, from 11:30 pm h/t Marcus
#HongKong
#OccupyCentral
#HK926
http://t.co/xtjdlRVSRt
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Even New Town Plaza felt the need to distance themselves from the police, putting out two statements on Facebook that: (1) they did not request police aid in clearing the mall, (2) there are no cops disguised as mall staff
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In all seriousness, these two key passages capture the core of Hong Kong’s crisis: the overreach of executive power, the unrepresentative and unresponsive character of Hong Kong’s government, and the suppression of the public’s fundamental rights. /4
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Honored and grateful to receive an Early Career Fellowship from the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies to support my new project on “Science in the Chinese Periphery” 🙏🏼
ACLS announces 2024
@HLuceFdn
-ACLS Early Career Fellows and Travel Grantees in China Studies:
Awards totaling $475,000 support research, writing, and travel for emerging scholars and graduate students in the field of
#ChinaStudies
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What does Article 29 (5) even mean: "通過各種非法方式引發香港特別行政區居民對中央人民政府或者香港特別行政區政府的憎恨並可能造成嚴重後果"
"Through various illegal methods, leading HKSAR residents to hate the Central People’s Gov or HKSAR Gov and may cause serious consequences"
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Was chatting with one of our RAs this morning about the flip in Chinese state/expert discourse about Long Covid: A few weeks ago, Long Covid was devastating the U.S. and other parts of the world without Zero Covid. And now suddenly it doesn't exist.
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Also great articles on syllabus from:
-
@Liu_Chuncheng
on social credit
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@k_griesbach
on algo control
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@mad_whitman
on universities/student data
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@watkins_welcome
on platform orgs
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In lieu of an independent inquiry, District Councils can be transformed into forums where grievances can be aired, where accounts of police brutality can be preserved for later. Newly elected members should think of their powers more creatively & not be bound by precedent.
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Wearing a mask to prevent exposure to hazardous chemicals released carelessly by
@hkpoliceforce
should qualify as a medical exemption to the anti-mask emergency proclamation
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From
@IlariaMariaSala
: "So put aside Tiananmen for a moment, and consider what this moment in Hong Kong really reveals: China’s political leaders still simply cannot understand freethinking people."
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When bankers take to the streets on a Monday morning to condemn
@hkpoliceforce
brutality in Central, things have gone terribly wrong
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The only TV show about Hong Kong expats I’d watch would be a true crime dramatization of the “milkshake murderer” Nancy Kissel.
Otherwise, 90% of the expat drama would just be debates over where to brunch, where to yacht, Bali or Phuket, etc. 🤷♂️
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Things calm down in New Town Plaza as LegCo Members Roy Kwong, Eddie Chu, and Au Nok-him meet the press, condemning the police's excessive use of force in the mall that could have easily caused a stampede. They reiterate the need to form an independent commission
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Starting the weekend with a paper acceptance! 🎉🎊🍾
A paper that we wrote and re-wrote over the course of almost two years, and improved significantly because of our engaged editors and reviewers. Grateful 🙏🏼
@Liu_Chuncheng
@fu10zheng
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More importantly, since pan-democrats command majorities in 17 of 18 District Councils, they have agenda setting powers that can be used to hold hearings on these topics that will be entered into public record in minutes & documents on their websites.
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One of the joys of teaching is being able to introduce students to your favorite books 📖
Teaching two classes at CCNY this Fall, the first on 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙢, with excerpts from these 🩺🥼🩻
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Watch till the end where we almost got crushed at the Roosevelt Island subway escalators (
@mta
had 1 visible staff member,
@richerryblfest
& RI security had 1 staff each at entrance) piss poor planning & crowd control for 1000+ people
#cherryblossoms
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Powered through five job applications due today last night/this morning. Submitted them all before noon. Cooks lunch.
Gets notification of a paper acceptance. 😅
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Admiralty remains taken (Now331 stream): all in Hong Kong not on streets tonight will have eyes on their TV
http://t.co/XHENbOYDh2
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A protester on a megaphone pleads with the police, questioning their logic of sealing all exit routes and footbridges while trying to clear the scene. If they want people to go, they have to leave a way for them to go home.
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Excited to share my new paper on Scientific/Intellectual Movements in biomedicine published in
@socscimed
! 🎊
The study is a bibliometric analysis of six SIMs: precision, personalized, stratified, genomic, translational, evidence-based medicine.
1/4
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As this example from another part of Shatin shows, had the police left, the protesters would have dispersed of their own accord. Their policing tactic of basically stalking protesters wherever they go only incite greater resentment and resistance
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Morning radio is best paired with macaroni in soup topped with satay beef, extra-runny eggs, over-buttered toast, and milk tea
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This video clearly showed the possibility of greater bloodshed as the riot police advance in the mall, pushing protesters into narrow passageways. They were also seen later equipped with tear gas launchers, gas masks. Luckily those weren’t deployed indoors
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Glad to see our paper
@Liu_Chuncheng
@fu10zheng
out at
@Soc_Forum
(open access):
“It's (Not) Like the Flu”: Expert Narratives and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States
A short 🧵
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I reviewed the board game Pandemic for
@SciAsCulture
, where I describe the cooperative sociotechnical imaginary of the game and discuss how unequal power relations in the game can help us think through the challenge of vaccine equity for the Global South
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Highly recommend this book for early career researchers and graduate students thinking about grant writing! ✍️
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Surprisingly, it will be my first time at ASA after eight years of sociology. One of the quirks of a pandemic PhD. But very much looking forward to it!
Open to coffee and chats with graduate students and others, about the job market or research. DM or email!
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In the absence of government pronouncements on the safety of the indiscriminate tear gas use by Hong Kong's police, citizen and professional scientists have begun documenting the adverse effects of exposure. See this in Lancet
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Citizens distribute food, collect trash/recycle, help each other, wash sweat/tear drenched towels 2:15 pm Admiralty
http://t.co/5dfil66Zai
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Co-organizing a joint
@ASA_SKAT
and
@GATS_ASA
session on "Global and Comparative SKAT" with
@KenSun80194366
! We're open to papers on transnational circulations of science/knowledge/tech, particularly beyond the Global North
@ASAnews
submissions portal is open now to Feb 22, 2023
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Imagine this photo but a protest march that spans over 4 km in Hong Kong, taking hours to complete, in the grueling hot summer. Inspired by the persistence and determination of today’s 1.03 million protesters. (photo from an uncle)
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Having done constituent work in past for a District Councilor, there’s also power in commanding responses from relevant officials who would otherwise ignore a lay public member’s request for things like an explanation for police blocking off a road or a reprimand of an officer
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It would be nice if we contracted public health experts to design life saving policies and systems, rather than rely on Deloitte and McKinsey consultants likely without domain expertise.
A recurring pattern throughout this whole ordeal
/1
CDC paid Deloitte $44 million to streamline vaccination scheduling, administration, and reporting. The tool they actually built is so bad, most states won’t use it.
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Sharing a new paper from my dissertation on parental uses of genetic talent testing in China, published in
@SciPublic
🇨🇳🧬👨👩👦
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First day of the new semester at CCNY!Glad the office plants survived their five weeks of winter break neglect 🙏🏼
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So many political elites in
#HongKong
are devout Christians (lots of former ministers in mom’s church), this along with Catholic Diocese’s opposition & the Christian hymns and imagery invoked by protesters may just help sway some in positions of power
Hongkong Christian Council calling urgent meeting with Carrie Lam today 本會特邀請各位宗派教會領袖於12/6/2019（三）即今天下午2:30，於本會會址協進會大樓（尖沙咀加連威老道33號 三樓大堂）進行緊急會議，商討約見特區行政長官，以陳明基督教界的意見
#antiELAB
#NoExtraditionToChina
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Actually, we don’t have a democracy. We want to keep our rule of law & civil liberties. District Councils are the only real elections we have. We’d like to expand franchise to higher offices like the Legislative Council and Chief Executive, now controlled by corporate voters
For months, the people of Hong Kong have taken to the streets to stand up for their rights. This weekend, they went to the ballot box and sent the powerful message that they want to keep their democracy—and Beijing must respect that.
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Hong Kong Is the Lung Through Which Chinese Banks Breathe:
The city’s GDP relative to China’s keeps shrinking, but that belies its role in the country’s banking system
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Finished and distributed my dissertation to my committee on Monday (still have to defend)!
Taking a breather in the Catskills, and reading (for pleasure) for the first time in a very long time with an appropriately set pandemic novel. 😅
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Here’s a video of the 50 or so protesters heckling the TVB show being taped at Fortune Metropolis in Hung Hom
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My review of 𝘖𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 by Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher from
@PSUPress
is now available on the newest issue of
@ContemporarySoc
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Different rules for the $$$:
Senior global bankers face easier travel to and from Hong Kong as Asia’s financial hub offers a sliver of chance to resume travelling
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Demonstrators in Williamsburg evading the NYPD by moving in unpredictable directions. More than a dozen police vehicles trailing them
#BlackLivesMatternyc
#NYCPROTESTS
#bewater
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My new working paper is out on
@UCIGCC
's website, on lessons for science and industrial policies from China's push for precision medicine 🇨🇳🧪
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Our new Long Covid research team paper compares the politics of naming post-Covid symptoms in the United States, China, and Brazil published in the inaugural issue of Ciencia, Público y Sociedad (Science, Public and Society)!
Translated Spanish version:
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Honestly, there should be far more lawsuits against the police at this point. Any reasonable judge or jury would rule in favor of the public
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Excited to start this new project with
@leonnelrg
supported by
@SSRC_org
comparing popular understandings of Covid-19 in Brazil, UK, and US, drawing on the framework of agnotology or the study of the production of doubt and ignorance!
The SSRC is pleased to announce sixty-two recipients of our Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences, in partnership with
@HLuceFdn
, and with generous support from
@WennerGrenOrg
,
@FordFoundation
,
@macfound
, and
@Hewlett_Found
.
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🚨First
@CATSprojectCU
pub on
#LongCovid
🚨
We report findings from a Fall 2021 online survey (n=334) of patients, focusing on short answers about experiences with doctors and medical professionals. We describe the rhetoric of medical gaslighting used.
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First time back in Hong Kong in three years. Still the same city if you eat, drink, and brunch through it all.
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More broadly, one of the ways in which I interpret Hong Kong’s current crisis & pasts protests is the struggle for a government that is accountable to and responds to the people. Making District Councils work towards this end is a small step in the right direction
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Dismissed from jury duty before lunch! 1.5 week of spring break begins 🎉
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Congratulations
@like2soc
for winning the Sociology of Law
#ASA2023
Distinguished Book Award!
One of many awards the groundbreaking book received! Available via
@stanfordpress
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