• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st!)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline May 1st!)

• The Avoidance of the Intellectual

• Sociological questions about the coming era of data-driven privatised policing

• Why you should @readcube to manage your library of papers

• David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’

• Social Science Funding in the US potentially on the verge of being cut in half

• “all the things I believed with all my heart when I was young are just coasters for beers & clean surfaces for drugs”

• The Two Tier Future of Employment in UK Higher Education

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Civility

• Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

• I like the #CatManifesto

• The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Idea

• CfP: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

• President of Imperial College London: “Professors are really like small business owners”

• The Surprisingly Rapid Destruction of the Professions

• Loner

• The Writing Routine of Richard Sennett

• The overarching questions which interest me

• Constructing a sociological career in the accelerated academy

• “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

• Kitten Mittens

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• A new resource for teaching social theory

• An initial attempt to critique co-evolutionary approaches to understanding the socio-technical

• Reflexivity and the Social Production of Distraction

• The Rise of the Self-Funded Studentship and What It Says About Academia (and Academics)

• Theory Stream Plenary at the BSA Annual Conference

• Transformative Practice and Theory: Where We Stand Today

• Podcast: Andrew Sayer on Why Things Matter To People

• Reframing Margaret Archer’s critique of habitus

• Who could object to a project that seeks to stop killer robots?

• University tuition fees in England are now, on average, the highest in the world

• Workshop: Investigating the Internal Conversation

• Big Data & Society – Early Career Researcher Forum

• Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

• Cognitive Triage and Television

• The Strange Transformation of Gideon Osborne

• The reality of the ‘rapper sword dance’ does not match the image the phrase conveyed in my mind

• The place of sociology in the Second Machine Age

• That time we went on a pub crawl with Karl Marx

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

• Videocast of the Algorithms and Accountability conference (cc @DALupton @SusanJHalford)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #6

• “I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded”

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

• When shopping is a baffling ordeal

• Dear academic hive mind, please help me identify radical education projects in the UK

• Relational Realism, Collective Reflexivity and Social Movements

• The pathetic triviality of the discourse on ‘campus censorship’