• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Time-packing and space-packing

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The causal powers of media

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• Social Media and the Impact Agenda: making an impact with your research 

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?

• Making an Impact with Social Media

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• What will Macron be like in government?

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

• The technocratic oath

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• Public Engagement and Social Media

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

• things I’ve been reading recently #34

• Anthem for a Planet’s Children

• The Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• What is a research technologist?

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• What is a wonk?

• “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

• Call for Papers: The Journal of Repressive Social Theory

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• Sociological Fiction Zine

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change

• In defence of ‘curation’

• Using graphic novels to communicate your research

• How to attribute authorship on @soc_imagination?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#25)

• “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

• The Polysemic University

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Social Media Training Workshop

• My new chapter on the digitalisation of the archive

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in an age of Donald Trump?

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?