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• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy

• YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

• stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

• defensive elites and the actions they’re willing to take

• Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

• Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

• The first year of the Accelerated Academy project

• Early Career Researcher Event @TheSocReview: A Master-Class with Professor Éric Fassin

• The Reactionary Politics of Tech Bros

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• Social Media and Social Futures

• “Let Me Stay”: Exhibition on Housing Insecurity in Manchester

• The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

• The Promise of the Pivot Format

• Protest and Performance Week @WarwickUni

• On Subculture

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

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• There are no strings on me

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• CfP: Data Friction

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• On Techno-Fascism

• The Coming Monopolies of Digital Capitalism

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• The Videos from @AcceleratedUni

• CfP: Digital Health & Digital Capitalism

• Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled

• CFP: AOIR 2016 panel – ‘the playful web’

• Engaging with participation, activism and technologies

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• Say More Fire

• CfP for AOIR2016: Panel/Roundtable on “Aging in a Digital World”

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• Call for Papers: “Digital Traces in Context”

• Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• CFP for the themed issue of ‘Subjectivity’ on Radical Negativity

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• The State of Digital Research Methods

• Forced migration & digital connectivity in Europe

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• Special Issue of Discover Society on Digital Futures

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• 17 podcasts about realist social theory