• The rise of think tanks

• The seedy(ish) world of content marketing

• Concurrences in Postcolonial Research conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 20-23 August 2015

• Nigel Farage vs. Tony Blair

• So @soc_imagination is supposedly the 4th most popular Economics blog in the UK

• Computational Social Science Conference

• Valuing electronic music

• Margaret Archer interviewed in Times Higher Education

• Why do people blame their iPads for the fact they can’t concentrate in meetings?

• The Anthropology of Hipsters (and what it reveals about Anthropology)

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• The violent rage of the ‘nice guy’

• The breaking of intellectual superstars

• “Stop closing down the debate!”: some thoughts on racism, free speech and UKIP

• What is it like to be a telephone fundraiser?

• Queer Futures – new research project

• How does someone come to identify as asexual?

• George Galloway: “I don’t want your fucking vote”

• The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

• Next Critical Sexology Seminar – 30th May – “Sex Critical Approaches to Pornography”

• Akello Stone on Visual Sociology

• Valuing Electronic Music

• The six challenges social media poses for social researchers

• The Impact Agenda and the Good (Academic) Life

• No, @tvlicensing, I still don’t own a TV. Would you please leave me alone?

• Buzzfeed and the “the acceleration of the temporal rhythm of late capitalist visual culture”

• Warwick University Ltd Conference (not this Friday but soon)

• Racism and Digital Communication and Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: 2 events at @SocioWarwick 11th June

• Call for Artwork RGS-IBG 2014: Geographies of Co-Production in the Arts

• Academics using kickstarter

• Power in a World of Becoming, Process, Entanglement & Attachment – Programme Announced – June 2-3 (please circulate)

• 31 things the current UK government have privatised or want to privatise

• CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs

• The details of the Fourth Cultural Political Economy Workshop

• Unintentionally hilarious university recruitment videos

• Academic Conferences: “Disability in Translation” and “Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane”

• Fast capitalism and peer review

• In Praise of Brevity

• Floria Charity harassed by police and couple fined $746 for feeding homeless people

• DIY Citizenship – A Symposium: Critical Making, Activism & Design

• The Performativity of Social Movements (CC @TGJBrock)

• CfP: How capitalism survives? A Marxist-Feminist perspective

• CfP: BSA Activism in Sociology Forum

• CfP: Researching Sex and Intimacy in Contemporary Life: An interdisciplinary Symposium

• Looking for an Evernote alternative? Centrallo might be what you’re looking for

• Asexuality in Television and Film: Explicit Mentions (a reference post)

• “Why do I never listen to me?”: Internal Monologues and TV Comedy

• Daniel Miller on Becoming Human

• Elizabeth Warren for President

• Sociology as a brand

• Podcasts: Digital Sociology at #BritSoc14

• CfP: The media’s evolving role in sex education

• CfP: Big Data in Political Science

• Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist Perspectives

• The professionalisation of charities

• The sociology of ‘hipsters’

• Henry Miller on The Artist and individuality, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

• When writing is hard

• CfP: Profiling Digital Sociologists

• I’d forgotten how much I love watching Parkour….

• Morphogenesis and realist meta-theory: @dlittle30 reviews Margaret Archer’s Social Morphogenesis

• CfP: Writing Communities: People as Place

• Paul Krugman discusses Piketty with Bill Moyers

• Paul Krugman Makes Rand Paul’s Head Explode With Facts In ‘Big Government’ Debate

• I give it a few months before Piketty shows up in web memes…

• The Piketty Panic and the Making of Intellectual Superstars

• Digital sociology and the coming crisis of qualitative research

• Become a contributor to The Asexual Agenda!

• Has anyone else’s wordpress spam filter stopped working?

• Call for contributors: relaunch asexualitystudies.org as a group blog

• Jeremy Rifkin: “The Zero Marginal Cost Society”

• Orphans

• And I hate these things but I always attend

• Spitting like a dragon with a similar demeanour

• A Eulogy for Twitter

• Queering Higher Education Panel at SRHE Conference 2014: Call for Panel Presenters

• Governing Academic Life – conference marking 30yrs since Foucault’s death

• Elphinstone PhD Scholarship on technology and work-life bourdaries

• Lisa Diamond on Sexual Fluidity

• Why ask “why talk”?

• Overcoming ‘nature vs nurture’

• Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology

• PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

• Quantifying the time wasted by quasi-market systems

• Digital Public Sociology at #BritSoc14

• Theorizing Roles and Collective Intentionality: Contemporary Perspectives

• 5 reasons why Evernote is overrated

• How the “Internet of Things” is Killing Capitalism

• Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

• The Uncompromising Pessimism of Public Sociology

• PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

• Dogs Annoying Cats with Their Friendship

• The Centre for Social Ontology

• Question of the Week: April 22nd, 2014

• Tony Blair: ‘I say lies’

• The opposite of everythingism

• The Sociology of Everythingism

• What a clever way to encourage people to join an academic social network

• Are 90% of academic papers really never cited?

• Self-awareness and reflexive technologies