Dr Yuchen Yang

After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0735...

I lost 4kg after 4 weeks of teaching 😲 Never thought teaching is more effective for weight management than HIIT 🤯

I have so many questions about what kind of people would buy this birthday card (and how my interviewees might react) 🤪

Finally done with the PGCert in Higher Education! Never thought I would still have three assignments to write after my PhD 🤐

Two students walked into my classroom in the middle of my lecture and asked if they could take a picture of me because their professor asked them to do a scavenger hunt and they have to take a picture of the most interesting person 😂😂😂

My parents showed this photo to my 90-year-old grandma. My grandma thought it's a photo of my wife because my hair wasn't pink 😂

This is the right call. Thank you, @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Astonishing that our government remains so cavalier about our environment with every climate-crisis indicator so much in evidence. We need green jobs that will improve our society, not employment that will make everything even worse.

The free headshot at #asa2026 looks better than I expected ☺️

6 years since I started teaching myself ethnomethodology, I finally presented a paper using Conversation Analysis at #asa2026

Join us for a rally for a democratic ASA! We will have a disruption planned inside and outside of the ASA hotel. To avoid any protest policing, we will share the exact time and locations of the rally on August 6th RSVP for our rally here: tinyurl.com/ASARally2026 #BoycottASA

The most confusing sign at #asa2026

I wonder if I'm the pinkest keynote speaker in the history of the Junior Theorist Symposium 😂

Good news: #AerLingus didn't leave my suitcase in Dublin this year 🥳 Bad news: Thanks to #AerLingus, the exact same suitcase now only has 3 wheels 🙄

"In thematic analysis, theory is a matter of picking an epistemological and ontological position in qualitative research rather than examining how qualitative research draws from theory and contributes to theorizing." This is exactly why I don't like thematic analysis.

It's clear to me now that many really don't care about sociology as a discipline, but are simply using the moment to express their grievance and resentment toward the journals and departments that rejected them. Funny that this is the same group of people who are against "grievance studies."

Yuri forums even made it to his dissertation acknowledgement #girlslove #yuri #anime

After so many years, I finally said to a China Studies audience that China is not a "method." It is indeed a "case." And of course, I was advocating for the Extended Case Method 😉 #ChinaStudies #Sociology #ExtendedCaseMethod

Somehow I managed to survive UChicago without serving as a discussant for any workshop. Ironically, serving as a discussant for this panel means the word "sinophone" will now be on my CV even though I'm not even a literary scholar 😂

Is not having Air Conditioning the main reason why UK universities rank so much higher than US universities in terms of sustainability? I'm seriously wondering 🥵🥵🥵

According to Clarivate's latest Journal Citation Report, the Journal of Chinese Sociology has superceded Social Forces in its impact factor 😯 #Sociology

Follow-up question: Does anyone know of any undergraduate research using either comparative-historical method or experimental method that was later published in a peer-reviewed journal? Recommendations for published undergrad work using other methods are also appreciated 🙂 #sociology #teaching

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#Sociology friends: Do you have any former undergrad student (or yourself) who turned a BA thesis (or other undergrad work) into a peer-reviewed publication? I'm thinking about putting together a bibliography of peer-reviewed studies that started as undergraduate research👩‍🎓 #teaching #undergraduates

I'm very honored and excited to have been elected to serve as Council Member for the ASA Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section! 🤩 Really looking forward to supporting and advocating for interactionist scholars in sociology in this new role! 😊

Now that my pink hair is gone, I really need to learn how to do makeup 👿 (Is there a hybrid masculinity overcompensation thesis?)

Dressed extra colorful for departmental meeting 🤪

We had such a wonderful panel discussion on childhood and the politics of gender and sexuality yesterday!!! It's such a privilege to get four of my favorite sociologists on the same panel and I learned so much from the conversation!!!

Happening in 30 minutes!!!

TOMORROW!!!

Join us next Tuesday!!!

And it doesn't even protect children.

It was such a pleasure discussing the continuing importance of Stuart Hall's work and the Birmingham School for sociology at the current conjuncture with Ben Carrington, Gregor McLennan, and my colleagues Frankie Rogan and Nick Beech at the @britsoci.bsky.social conference yesterday! #britsoc26

Join us on April 28!!! The best thing about being part of the CCL committee is that you get to invite four of your favorite sociologists onto the same panel 😝

New open access article (w/ Marcel Paret) in the 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: “𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗼𝘆: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲–𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.” We revisit Burawoy’s 1970s and 80s work on southern Africa to intervene in contemporary debates on racial capitalism and Du Bois.

Miyu 🐱: Yeah, sure, but have you considered Gramsci's relevance for the study of feline and cats? #AntonioGramsci #StuartHall #Cats

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Happening soon!!! #sociology #culture #diversity

When you feel useless and are overwhelmed by self-doubt, come to Birmingham New Street. There is a "needless alley" and I didn't even know it's there for the past year and half 🤡