XiaLab at University of Ottawa

Blog (My random thoughts posted to LinkedIn

• The Embassy and the Submarine
• The fall of Microsoft
• Canadian Universities and the Central Planning Committee
• Two forms of undesirable economic polarization
• The causes of revolution
• Massacres: Fiction and reality
• Public transit in Ottawa (Blair Station D)
• Insights from historical events
• On Alice Weidel and her policies
• The agonizing mismatch between papers and reviewers
• Chrystia Freeland resigned at the wrong time for the wrong reason
• A professor and his computer: a miserable journey through the jungle of university administration
• Causes of poverty in the Rust Belt
• How should universities handle professor and student demonstrations?
• The fiasco of foreign election interference in Canada
• If you're not at the table in the international system, you're going to be on the menu.
• Be angry and sin not
• Canadian politics: the tragic collision between the perception and the reality
• Christmas reflection
• The widening gap between Canadian university administration and professors
• My personal view of China
• Which country is going green?
• Government transparency
• Gender identity and new English words
• Journal Impact Factor: two biases
• Science hoaxes in leading journals: common features
• The awkward usage of molecular evolution
• Are scientists becoming increasingly biased?
• My wobbling years in academic world ... and some guardian angels
• Shallow thinking, big data​: A new monster in science
• Beyond Francis Galton and the Victorian England

(These represent my transient opinions which change over time. They have nothing to do with my university.)