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Dr Yuchen Yang

@dr-yang.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology

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Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

05.08.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2064    πŸ” 719    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 20

Congratulations!!!!!! I remember this paper from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop!!!!!!

04.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL

03.08.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wrapping up my first year as an Assistant Professor by signing a book contract with UChicago Press πŸ€“

01.08.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s rly cute when quant ppl use all of their little symbols to let you choose your own adventure***αΆ§α΅•Μˆ

29.07.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite economists anecdote is when Queen Elizabeth visited LSE just after the 2008 crisis and, while being given the tour and shown the economists’ brilliance asked, point blank, β€œif you’re so smart, why didn’t you see this crisis coming?” I’m with you, Liz.

29.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited that Men and Masculinities is officially starting their search for a new editorial team. Kristen, Joseph and I will rotate off our second term at the end of the year. Please share and apply if you're interested. Feel free to reach out: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

25.07.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Of course Kirk doesn’t want sociology majors. He just wants laborers who he can hire to do labor for him and his rich friends and boss them around, not people trained to understand and call out wealth inequality or systems of control.

22.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I was rereading Connell's Masculinities today and spotted a typo in the 2005 edition: "We cannot understand class, rice [sic] or global inequality without constantly moving towards gender" πŸ˜‚

21.07.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Harvey Sacks' birthday. #EMCA #conversationanalysis

19.07.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Born on this day, 1935. Remembering Harvey Sacks.

18.07.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GARFINKEL!!!!!!

16.07.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Superman Trump and the Crisis of Masculinity by Design On July 10, 2025, the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Superman. He’s shown in the red-and-blue suit, cape flowing, mid-flight. The caption reads: β€œA T…

Trump’s AI-generated Superman post isn’t just a meme. It’s gendered propaganda. When real masculinity falters, political fantasy fills the gap. New post on visual exaggeration and "crisis masculinity" discourse and performance. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/s...

16.07.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

15.07.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2375    πŸ” 488    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 50

Can't agree more!!!

15.07.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This paragraph in Making the Difference (1982) always makes me chuckle. Raewyn Connell really hated survey and quant methods πŸ˜‚

15.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I remember correctly, the T-Rex has a Christmas hat that it usually wears during the Christmas season πŸ₯³ #gobears

11.07.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I had no idea what was going on...

10.07.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is our graduation in July??? It's 30 degrees!!!

10.07.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Found a collection of Frantz Fanon's essays that's as thick as Harvey Sacks's Lectures on Conversation!

05.07.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apparently, the bird really likes sriracha sauce 🌢️

01.07.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽŠπŸŽŠπŸŽŠ

01.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I GOT ROBBED BY A BIRD!!!
😱😱😱

01.07.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

YES!!!

29.06.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First writing retreat with my department ✍🏻

27.06.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So excited to see an #EMCA paper in the #AJS by @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social @raymond-sociology.bsky.social and Brett Bowman!!! One of my most pleasant surprises working as an Associate Editor for the AJS during 2023-24 was that we got quite some super interesting work using conversation analysis!!!

25.06.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social #UoB125

22.06.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a great lecture- engaging, transparent about the methodology & insightful. A great start to this new distinguished lecture series hosted in Birmingham, UK

19.06.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonderful inaugural Autar Dhesi Lecture by Prof. Mario Small @marioluissmall.bsky.social at the University of Birmingham School of Social Policy and Society @birminghamschool.bsky.social yesterday!!!

18.06.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

❀️❀️❀️

18.06.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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