Yue Qian

Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

1/5 Is there a gender wealth gap in Canada? In my latest paper with Mamadou Diallo and @dianapenaruiz.bsky.social, we provide some answers. We also compare gender wealth gaps across provinces and over time to assess whether Québec’s adoption of a family policy reduced these gaps. rdcu.be/eOvwS 🧵

Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...

From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369...

@sriucl.bsky.social

🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Fan and Qian use mixed methods to investigate the mental health implications of economic risks during China's 2020 COVID-19 outbreak.

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We know you are all doing extraordinary work #poweredbyIPUMS - and we want to reward it! The annual research awards competition is now open - submit a nomination today! 🏆 (Did we mention the cash prizes? 💸) www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

Xiang Zhou (Harvard Sociology) and I are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows through the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. The theme for 2026–27 is the Social Foundations of State Power in China. Deadline: January 15, 2026. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/affiliation-...

Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀

How did the #pandemic impact working parents?
@yueqiansoc.bsky.social #UBC and Wen Fan
@bostoncollege.bsky.social show that balancing work–family demands became more challenging among remote-working parents who were employed in less-teleworkable occupations.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Make It Worse? Working from Home and Affective Well-Being at the Intersections of Parental Status and Occupation - Yue Qian, Wen Fan, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented expansion of working from home. To capture the individual well-being implications of this profound social change, ...

Check out open access article doi.org/10.1177/0019... ! Thanks @ipums.bsky.social & @ox.ac.uk for amazing data - ATUS, ACS, CPS & OxCGRT. @ilrreview.bsky.social managing editor Candace J. Akins dedicates so much care to the articles they handle during the production process - We were so grateful!

Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Make It Worse? Working from Home and Affective Well-Being at the Intersections of Parental Status and Occupation - Yue Qian, Wen Fan, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented expansion of working from home. To capture the individual well-being implications of this profound social change, ...

With 4 datasets, we show that the pandemic exacerbated negative affect the most for remote-working parents in less-teleworkable jobs, esp. during school closures. @ilrreview.bsky.social We constructed an "occupational teleworkability" index using @ipums.bsky.social ATUS. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

RSF call for papers! Special issue in celebration of 25 years of the FFCWS @ffcws.bsky.social! Call open to the full range of datasets and methods in servive to studying contemporary families! www.russellsage.org/publications...

🆕 Research Brief | Dr. Sofia Noori’s research explores how young people use storytelling, music, and creative expression to navigate these challenges, heal from trauma, and rebuild a sense of belonging within Canadian classrooms and society.

🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...

Research from ASA members Yu Xie and Junming Huang @princeton.edu illustrates how China is attracting scholars, especially in STEM fields, in the wake of the administration’s funding cuts and immigration restrictions in this @washingtonpost.com article.

📣 One week left to register for our next hybrid #SpeakerSeries event!

😂 feel so seen 😂

Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

FSU is hiring 2 APs in spatial data science! Open to any social science discipline, including sociology. This makes at least 5 faculty jobs at FSU this year open to Soc PhDs. Consider applying if you do spatial research! (ad says Geography, but it's open field)

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Global Social Scientists 🌍! Just 15 Days till Abstracts are Due for the Summer 2026 Conference on Globalizing Political Economy at UBC 📆! Travel Support Available! Details Here: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73. #globalization #sociology #politicalscience #economics #geography #politicaleconomy #globalstudies

Reach a larger audience! Get practical guidance on communicating sociological research to nonacademic audiences at this ASA webinar w/ Douglas Hartmann (University of Minnesota) & Jill Yavorsky (UNC-Charlotte). Oct 23, 4-5 pm Eastern. Free for ASA members. Register here: https://bit.ly/3L1ApH1

Gaoheng Zhang publishes two monographs in one month on Italy-China cultural exchanges - Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies We are excited to share that Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, has published two new monographs this October 2025—each exploring cultural exchanges between Italy and China…

Congratulations to Dr. Gaoheng Zhang for publishing two new monographs this October, each exploring cultural exchanges between Italy and China—from food to fashion. We invite you to attend his upcoming book talks. fhis.ubc.ca/news/gaoheng...

Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.

Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay | Opinion Individuals and families need to be supported by a strong social safety net that includes paid leave and a robust child care infrastructure. There are no quick fixes.

Having children is a commitment to the future.
And too many people don’t feel secure enough about their lives now or in the future to make that commitment and have the children they’d like.

And until we address that issue, birth rates are unlikely to increase. My op-ed in @newsweek.com.

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

Asia-Pacific Work-Family Researchers - We Want to Hear From You!

Planning to attend WFRN.bsky.social conference in Montreal next year? We're organising an APAC networking session and need your input!
📋 Quick 2-minute survey: lnkd.in/gaf48z87

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Bryn Mawr College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology with a specialization in social movements! The applications are due on September 19th. It is a fantastic place to be a scholar and educator—please spread the word! I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!

Colleagues, please help spread the word and submit an abstract! The Global Political Economy Network is a super welcoming and dynamic scholarly community with great breadth and depth. And visiting Vancouver in the summer is not too shabby either. Travel support is available!

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

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Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata Traditionally, researchers reported results of regression analyses using tables. A more visually appealing way of presenting these results is by using a coefficient plot. Unlike a typical scatterplot…

If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic!

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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research.....

What makes a desirable spouse in China?

Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...