• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The Slow Death of Press Freedom?

• The Stangely Poetic Character of WordPress Spam

• “Do not be mean, I am ready for enormity”

• Inaugural meeting for a SE London Campaign for Public Uni / CDBU group

• The Case Against Open Access

• What does it mean to be a public intellectual in an age of austerity?

• The Future of Scholarship

• Things That Are Not Asexuality

• The value of public higher education

• Economists are horrible people

• BiReCon 2014 – bisexual conference Call for Papers

• Call for Papers – NGender: Seminars in Gender and Sexuality Related Research

• Transseminars – free seminars with some bursaries available for travel. See below

• Call for Presentations at SPA Workshop 2013: “Challenges and Innovation in Social Policy Research”

• CfP: Discover Society

• Cultural evolutionary tipping points in the storage and transmission of information

• The Politics of Zombies

• CfP: Centre for Women and Gender @SocioWarwick Postgrad Seminar Series

• Fat Sexualities Panel event – 19 Nov

• So what do the Tea Party do now?

• Social Morphogenesis: Variety, Reflexivity and Agency

• The Popularity of Public Ownership

• Microfoundationalism in Sociology

• The Phenomenology of Obsessiveness

• The New Social-ism

• Creative methods in gender and sexuality research & public engagement

• The coming UK culture wars?

• Some quick thoughts on the sociology of craft

• The search for the ‘perfect’ situation

• Inside the Mind of the Republican Party

• Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson and the norms of public intellectualism in a digital age

• CfP: Discover Society

• The Practice of Abstraction

• LGBT Youth Suicicde Prevention – researcher post

• Why Things Matter to People

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• Dear England

• Discover Society

• Seminar Series on the History of Sexuality

• Striving for deep work when the situation demands shallow work

• Why Sociologists and Technologists Should Talk

• The virtues of a daily writing habit

• Blogging as Public Sociology

• If America has a communist President then perhaps Britain could have a socialist Prime Minister?

• BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society – Call for papers

• Money, Power and Opportunity in the Late Modern City, or, isn’t it a shame J G Ballard isn’t around to see this?

• Narrowly escaping the academic life

• The Retreat from Being and Flight into Having

• Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

• “Now fucking pay me” – One of my all time favourite film scenes

• Activists fight for right to the city – Britons, Africans unite in urban struggles

• Confused as to why the US government has been shut down? Let Mr Burns explain