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Catsuka

@catsuka.bsky.social

From "Sea Doctor", a 14-min Chinese student short film by Jiang Wei (Tsinghua University).
He did almost everything himself (designs, 2D & 3D animation, backgrounds, compositing, etc).
Full film >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-10...

October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Lenore Beadsman

@lenorebeadsman.bsky.social

Importante scienziato biomedico lascia gli Stati Uniti per la Cina
a seguito dei tagli a 8,3 milioni di dollari di sovvenzioni da parte dei National Institutes of Health

Hu "Tony" Ye assume il ruolo di preside fondatore della nuova facoltà di ingegneria biomedica presso Tsinghua University

Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after cuts to US$8 million in grants

Hu has been appointed founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University.

www.scmp.com

October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM Everybody can reply

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James Fallows

@jfallows.bsky.social

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Typo alert: That is "somehow made himself..." but you get the point.

I was once on the judges' panel to select "Schwarzman Scholars" to go Tsinghua Univ in China. A quasi-Rhodes deal.

Once.

(And, yes, Cecil Rhodes had his drawbacks too...)

October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Craig Hill

@craighill.bsky.social

At one stage, Kevin Rudd was simultaneously an honourary professor at Tsinghua University (China) and Harvard University (USA), the top universities in each country. He is the only former world leader who has achieved this. Trump has had multiple honourary degrees revoked because he is a disgrace.

October 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM Everybody can reply

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Patrick Marques

@pmarques35.bsky.social

[5/6] Cette étude, dirigée par Di Long (Université Tsinghua) et Michael Mann (Université de Pennsylvanie), confirme que le réchauffement global altère directement les équilibres biogéochimiques des océans, pourtant premiers puits naturels de carbone. #geography #phytoplankton #climate #oceans

October 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM Everybody can reply

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☭ Robson Freire ☭

@robsongfreire.bsky.social

Olha eu vou a China ano que vem. Estou estudando chinês e pretendo passar pelo menos uns 3 meses por lá. Quero ver de perto isso, entender e viver isso com intensidade. Minha esposa está aplicando para ir para lá na Universidade de Fudan, Tsinghua, Zhejiang, Wuhan e Pequim fazer pós doc com bolsa.

October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM Everybody can reply

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Andy Pavlo

@andypavlo.bsky.social

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format:
→ Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu...
→ CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa...
→ SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

GitHub - facebookincubator/nimble: New file format for storage of large columnar datasets.

New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. - facebookincubator/nimble

github.com

October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Andy Pavlo

@andypavlo.bsky.social

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet.
📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...
📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
SIGMOD 2025

October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

Mysteries of the Needle's Eye, a Dwarf Spiral Galaxy - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nyVetB

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye – an appropriately diminutive name for a dwarf spiral galaxy. The Needle’s Eye, also known as NGC 247 and Caldwell 62, is located about 11 million light-years away in the Sculptor Group – the closest group of galaxies to our own (the Local Group). The galaxy was given its nickname because one end of it features a strange void of stars (not seen in this Hubble close-up).

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Feng (Tsinghua University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)

#NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MSFC #Marshall #HubbleSpaceTelescope #HST #astrophysics #gsfc #galaxy

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September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Matthias C. Rillig

@mrillig.bsky.social

Looking forward to giving a seminar at Tsinghua University tomorrow (and to a visit to the wonderful art museum there).

September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Cientista (quase) maluco

@cientistamaluco.bsky.social

Yan Xuetong, reitor do Instituto de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Tsinghua, a universidade mais prestigiada da China, desmonta os falsos argumentos do oficial militar israelense Elad Shoshan.

Fonte: HISPANTV

September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Marciano Brito

@marcianobrito.bsky.social

Durante o Fórum Xiangshan, um dos principais encontros de defesa da Ásia, o renomado acadêmico Yan Xuetong, da Univ. Tsinghua, confrontou Elad Shoshan, adido militar da embaixada israelense em Pequim. Em um vídeo que viralizou nas redes sociais chinesas, Yan acusou Israel de atacar civis.
vqv.me/GLn

Marciano Brito @marcianobrito.bsky.social · 28d

E o representante chinês dá uma AULA ao representante de Israel:

"É isso que Israel está fazendo com mulheres e crianças palestinas."

Esqueceu de citar os milhares de civis, crianças e adultos inocentes palestinas torturadas nas masmorras e calabouços israelenses e sem direito a julgamento.

September 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Pear 🍐📎

@purelypear.bsky.social

[phoenix_news] Tsinghua University international relations scholar Yan Xuetong and an Israeli officer get into a heated argument in front of the media after the Bejing Xiangshan Forum. The video is a bit long but worth watching.

P.S. Yan Xuetong said over 70,000 deaths in Gaza is inaccurate but cloe to the truth. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, as of September 17, the death toll in Gaza has reached 65,062.

#gaza #israel #palestine #bejing

September 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Alfredo Pascual 🍉

@guyb.bsky.social

Se llama Yan Xuetong, es catedrático en Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de Tsinghua, y tiene la dignidad de apuntar a los asesinos con el dedo.

Que no se pierda nunca.

Antonio Solano 🦋 @tonisolmor.bsky.social · Sep 19

En toda la boca...

September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Antonio Solano 🦋

@tonisolmor.bsky.social

La persona china que habla en el video es Yan Xuetong, un influyente académico y una de las voces más reconocidas de China en el ámbito de las relaciones internacionales.
En el vídeo, ocupa el cargo de Decano del Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Tsinghua en Pekín.

September 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM Everybody can reply

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Fonsi Loaiza

@fonsiloaizap.bsky.social

El politólogo chino Yan Xuetong, decano del instituto Internacional de Relaciones de la Universidad Tsinghua, ha destrozado así a un militar sionista de los genocidas de Israel: "Nadie cree vuestra propaganda".

September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Benet Casablancas

@benetcasablancas.bsky.social

Qui no ho entengui que s'ho faci mirar: Raonar, no exterminar.🙏
Yan Xuetong, degà de l'Institut de Relacions Internacionals de la Universitat de Tsinghua (Xina) interpel·la al militar israelià Elad Shoshan. Seny, arguments i humanitat davant el rostre de la infàmia.

September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦

@insideukraine.bsky.social

At the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, Yan Xuetong, dean of Tsinghua University's Institute of International Relations, debated Israeli officer Elad Shoshan.

Yan said on Israel's civilian protection claims:

September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM Everybody can reply

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David Darmofal

@daviddarmofal.bsky.social

What are the 5 best universities in the world at which to study battery technology?
1. Stanford (USA)
2. University of Cambridge (UK)
3. University of South Carolina (USA)
4. Tsinghua University (China)
5. Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Battery Jobs 🔋

www.battery-job.com

September 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM Everybody can reply

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thetranscendedman

@atranscendedman.bsky.social

Researchers from Tsinghua University and collaborators developed a new SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor called H102.

It blocks the viral protease at 8.8 nM potency and unusually distorts its catalytic core, stopping replication in cells.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Discovery of a potent covalent inhibitor that unusually distorts the catalytic dyad of SARS-CoV-2 main protease | Journal of Virology

A nanomolar potent small-molecule inhibitor, H102, of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro was developed and exhibited strong anti-SARS-CoV-2 infection activity in cells. Co-crystal structure determination of its complex ...

journals.asm.org

September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Mark Peifer (He, him)

@peiferlabunc.bsky.social

If you are interested in the latest advances in Imaging Cell Dynamics, check out the 2026 @jcellsci.bsky.social Meeting. These small meetings are a terrific way to meet key people in the field and get feedback on your own work. Highly recommended!
www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

maging Cell Dynamics
11 - 14 May 2026, Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain

Organisers: Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti

Dear colleague,

Following on from our successful meeting in 2023, we are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the second iteration of our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting, which will be held in May 2026. This meeting will provide a unique opportunity to bring together experts working at the interface between cell biology and imaging, with a focus on researchers who use advanced light and electron microscopy approaches, and novel image analysis tools.

The meeting will feature talks from an outstanding set of invited speakers with opportunities for short talks and poster presentations.

We are delighted to showcase the rapid and exciting progress in this field and to nurture this growing community.

We hope you can join us.

On behalf of the organising committee,
Michael Way
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cell Science

Organisers and speakers
Francesca Bottanelli Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Guillaume Jacquemet Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Giulia Zanetti The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Michael Way The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Ori Avinoam Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sarah Cohen UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Emmanuel Derivery MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Lea Dietrich Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Ben Engel University of Basel, Switzerland
Marco Fritzsche University of Oxford, UK
Gerry Hammond University of Pittsburgh, USA
Virginie Hamel University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sven Klumpe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Christophe Leterrier CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France
Dong Li Tsinghua University, China
Taija Mäkinen Uppsala University, Sweden
Jonas Ries Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Austria
Katja Röper MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Loic Royer Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, USA
Ilaria Testa KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Aubrey Weigel Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, USA

September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Lenore Beadsman

@lenorebeadsman.bsky.social

Perché Liu Jun, il matematico di Harvard, ha lasciato gli Stati Uniti per la Cina?

La decisione del professore di tornare alla Tsinghua University, nonostante le crescenti tensioni e i tagli ai finanziamenti statunitensi, "non ha nulla a che fare con Trump" 👇

www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Exclusive | Why did Harvard top mathematician Liu Jun leave the US for China?

Professor’s decision to return to Tsinghua University amid rising tensions and US funding cuts had ‘nothing to do with Trump’.

www.scmp.com

September 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM Everybody can reply

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Lenore Beadsman

@lenorebeadsman.bsky.social

Liu ha preso anche in considerazione un'altra prestigiosa istituzione US
Wharton School

"Ho deciso di tornare in Cina all'inizio del 2024, all'epoca la Wharton mi fece un'offerta molto generosa e stavo per accettare"
poi ha scelto Tsinghua
per prendersi cura della madre anziana