• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact

• Protests against privatisation at Sussex University – Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 – please spread the word!

• Using visual metaphor to explain how stuff works: what theorists can learn from beatboxing?

• Boomboxes and Dictionaries

• Deadline Approaching FWSA 2012 Small Grants Scheme for Postgraduates

• Asexualities: a training day for therapists

• New public engagement website announcement – Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord?

• Gender and Sport seminar, Friday 18th May, University of Warwick

• Podcast – Exploring the Emergence of Underground Musical Worlds

• Isn’t this civilised?

• The Sociology of Animals and Why It Matters – Podcast with Nickie Charles and Bob Carter

• Window on Research: Dave O’Brien on Cultural Consumption in Contemporary Society

• Explanatory Methodology

• Public Sociology In an Age of Austerity – Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood in Dialogue

• Was Aditya Chakrabortty right about Sociology? A work sociologist responds…

• The Transformation of Academic Practice – Interview with Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar

• An Introduction to Multi-Author Blogging, May 29th, 12pm to 1pm in @researchex seminar room 2

• The fate of the individual in late capitalism

• Use of web 2.0 tools amongst UK researchers

• The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture – Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain

• Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

• Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives, 15 May 2012

• Fast, cheap and out of control

• I can’t sleep because of my endless coughing so I’ll play with Worldle instead…

• John Holmwood gets a spontaneous round of applause while talking about the future of #sociology at #britsoc12 during the @cwrightmills event

• Mike O’Donnell on “Charles Wright Mills and the (Continuing) Problem of Radical Agency”

• Nine resources for academics getting started with Twitter

• Multi-author blogging resources for academics

• Mass Observation, Quantified Self and Human Nature

• Digital tools and the transformation of scholarship

• A round up of digital change & ePublishing stuff I’m going to come back to properly at a later date

• New NCRM funded network of methodological innovation – New social media, new social science?

• This is how universities should do ePublishing…

• My notes on the digital scholar (chapter 1)

• John Holmwood on “Sociology’s ‘moments’: C. Wright Mills and the critique of professionalism”

• Les Back on Sociology’s Promise

• Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood part 3: the future of sociology

• Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood part 2: Higher Education

• A directory of sociological multi-author blogs (a work in progress)

• Are you a sociologist who blogs?

• Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood part 1: Neoliberalism

• Podcast with Les Back for @soc_imagination about #ukriots

• Some thoughts on pre publication academic exchange

• Using social media for impact and public engagement – a case study of @projectmyplace

• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination (part 1)

• Multi-Author Blogging at Warwick

• Public Engagement and the Public Understanding of Science

• David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband – focus groups won’t win you our love

• Marginal Cartographies: Researching beyond borders

• US research libraries are rapidly developing publishing services

• Libraries as Publishers

• #Asexuality at the Gay Film Fest Fringe!