• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Harmut Rosa engages with the work of Margaret Archer

• An introduction to curation tools

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#6)

• Help: examples of academics finding, collating and filtering information

• Struggling to put words to an idea

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#5)

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.3

• Notes on the Social Life of Theory 1.2

• The sociology of data science

• When writing on the iPad becomes a pleasure rather than a chore

• Self-tracking, social control and cognitive triage: the trials and tribulations of aspiring financiers

• Solving the problem of finding images for blog posts

• When marketers are too lazy to disguise their fill in the blanks

• Notes on the Social Life of Theory 1.1

• ‘Governing Money After Bitcoin and the “Sharing Economy’, Bill Maurer (UCI), Mon 8 Sep, 2-4pm

• Workshop 11-12th November 2014 – ‘Occupying Politics in a Time of Alterity’

• Remember when you lost your shit and drove the car into the garden….?

• Customer experience metrics

• Call for contributions: An Alternative History of Sociology

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• The Philosophy of Data Science

• The five modes of self-tracking

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#4)

• The artistic opportunities afforded by self-tracking technology

• Social media @NatCen Learning workshops with me & Dhiraj Murthy

• Lots and lots of blogging

• The political socialisation of Barack Obama

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.2

• Social Theory as Optometry

• Call for contributions: An Alternative History of Sociology

• Gigs I wish I had attended (#1)

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#3)

• Self-tracking and social control: what would techno-fascism look like?

• Rob Kitchin on critical data studies

• What will neo-neoliberal ideology look like?

• Call for Contributions – Special Issue on Sexism

• Self-tracking and data sensibilities

• Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#2)

• Time is always running out

• Stretching the Sociological Imagination: A Conference in Honour of John Eldridge

• The slam poetry of Denice Frohman

• Qualitative self-tracking and the Qualified Self

• Bourdieusian Hipsters Explain Foucauldian Memes

• Ever wondered about how Tony Blair interprets his own drift towards right-wing politics?

• Cfp: Mini Conference on Digital Sociology

• Christian Smith on the Sacred Project of American Sociology

• The narrative significance of ‘unreadability’

• The materiality of digital technology

• Realist evaluation, mechanisms and theoretical minimalism

• A lovely review of my book!

• The Bullshit Machine