Achievement Unlocked: I watched 6 films by Shinkai Makoto yesterday at the Birmingham Anime Film Festival! Their Shinkai Makoto Marathon included The Place Promised in Our Early Days, The Garden of Words, 5 Centimeter Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Your Name, and Weathering with You.

Teaching starts next Monday, so I'm PINK again! ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧

I'm revamping our Sociology of Everyday Life module at @birminghamschool.bsky.social this semester to make it more interactionist and ethnomethodological. For our first lecture next week, we'll read Adler et al.'s Annual Review article and Fishman's classic piece, "Interaction: The Work Women Do." 🤩

Congratulations!!! @stephanieternullo.bsky.social

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

Take action for international students! Proposed DHS rule eliminating Duration of Status is detrimental for international students. Submit public comment (naming Docket No. ICEB-2025-0001) before 11:59 pm EDT, Sept. 29: https://bit.ly/3KoPB0w. Context: https://bit.ly/42nbq6Y.

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Reunion of three sociologists of childhood from Hangzhou in Birmingham!

Apparently, Google AI has already learned what I mean by "gender uptake" (mostly) within 3 days of the publication of my article 😲

This article is a must-read for anyone interested in media, platform, nationalism, or China!!! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

And then my cat sealed me onto my keyboard. I guess she's saying, "You shall never stop writing."

officially, the military parade is to mark "the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.” it's not WWII, but world anti-fascist war. but does it tell us anything about fascism? no. but on my fav social media..

It's September and I really need to start writing this book . . . but I procrastinated by reading The Chicago Manual of Style for two hours (though I did learn a lot about formatting and punctuation, including the spaced ellipse above) 🤪

One of the things that drives me up the wall is when people say students “need to learn how to use AI” to succeed in the workplace. It is EXTREMELY EASY to use a chatbot. That’s the whole point of it! You do not need training to type in the box! What are you even TALKING about?? +

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Very honored to be invited by Yufan Sun to give a guest lecture on "Rereading Doing Gender" for Sociology Tank's Summer Course, "Close Reading and Systematic Study of Social Scientific Theories" 🥰 I didn't know I could talk non-stop for 3 hours!

Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money?

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In case you don't know, Stuart Hall, the UChicago building, is NOT named after Stuart Hall, our Birmingham School theorist 🤪

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Selfie with Susan Gal and @jiarui-sun.bsky.social, who contributed profoundly to my "linguistic turn" 🥰

Finalizing my syllabus for the fall and facing a question I often face: How much CJ Pascoe is too much CJ Pascoe?

We had such a wonderful 8am panel yesterday for the Sex & Gender Open Topic Session!!! #ASA2025

Me, @xgzhou.bsky.social, and the best advisor in the world! #ASA2025

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Sexualities Section made a plaque for each of us!!! 🤩🤩🤩 #ASA2025

New paper out in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters! 🎉 Our research examines how Chinese youth’s sources of sexual knowledge are associated with their sexual and reproductive health. Open access article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happening NOW!!!!!! #ASA2025

Tomorrow at 8am, Freeden Blume Oeur and I will make an argument for a #childist revolution in feminist sociology!!! #ASA2025

As a masculinities scholar, being on a the same panel with Raewyn Connell is absolutely a dream come true!!! ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧ #ASA2025 #Masculinities

Come to our panel on the 30th anniversary of Raewyn Connell’s #Masculinities today at 4pm!!! #ASA2025

Got my second plaque from the ASA Theory Section 😊

After 4 days of delay and countless phone calls to an outsourced luggage service/call center, I finally got my luggage from #AerLingus 🙄

My wife and I presented on the same conference but our panels were at the same time. Is this the two-body problem for academic conference? 🧐

Now that it's been officially announced, I'm excited to share that I won the #SSSI Herbert Blumer Award! 🥰

I usually dress up for conferences. But if you see me looking super casual today or tomorrow at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual Meeting, that's because Aer Lingus left my suitcase in Dublin 🙄

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.

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Wrapping up my first year as an Assistant Professor by signing a book contract with UChicago Press 🤓

It’s rly cute when quant ppl use all of their little symbols to let you choose your own adventure***ᶧᵕ̈

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...

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.

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" 😂

Harvey Sacks' birthday. #EMCA #conversationanalysis

Born on this day, 1935. Remembering Harvey Sacks.

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...

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/

This paragraph in Making the Difference (1982) always makes me chuckle. Raewyn Connell really hated survey and quant methods 😂