• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Should we read the platform in post-human terms?

• Your authorial fingerprint

• The sub-hegemonic power of social media

• Rethinking the craft of social research

• The impact of social theory

• Sociological Images: Blogging as Public Sociology

• The Political Economy of Publishing Social Theory

• Your ‘daily dose of Sociological Imagination’: reflections on social media and public sociology

• Big Data and the ‘‘Book of Society”

• Rethinking Empirical Social Science

• Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0

• The Founder

• The fractal fascism taking shape around us

• The attention sinks which stop us dreaming

• Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

• Why social media shouldn’t be ignored by research policy

• George Soros on the threat of techno-fascism

• Becoming ourselves through the media

• The political significance of realism

• What is an institution?

• The overaffectation of the crowd

• Knowing neoliberalism, or, why doesn’t talking about it make it better?

• The Digital Condition: An Experiment in Mediated Dialogue

• Boris the introvert

• This is how it works

• A few sketchy thoughts on how theory is accelerating

• CfP: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• A conversation between empirical and theoretical ontology

• Experiments in everyday life

• So what do I actually research?

• The public role of academics in a social media era

• The light we steal when we write our books

• Did oil prices cause the financial crisis?

• This is not a pipe

• The analytical space where ‘publics’ meet ‘problems’: keeping it open rather than shutting it down

• Turn those clapping hands into angry fists

• Prospecting: Extraction, Speculation, and Liberation in the Accelerated Academy

• Neurodiversity Reading Group

• The object turn in the social sciences

• Who needs actions when you got words?

• The liquid powering liquid modernity

• Professionalisation as capture 

• Twitter and the internal conversation

• Coming soon: Social Media for Academics 2.0

• Fast movements struggle with slow issues 

• Becoming who we are 

• What is global competence?

• Why the EU matters for the future of the climate 

• Making time to think

• And I always dreamed of classic cars and movie screens

• Silicon startup schools

• Can capitalism survive climate change?