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  • Being an intellectual outside the academy: the sociology of branding strategies

  • Keeping our intellectual communities going during lockdown: a show and tell workshop

  • Running an online conference

  • Could science fiction be a research method?

  • The downward mobility of intellectuals

  • Why do academic celebrities self-plagiarise?

  • What is an essay?

  • The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

  • The parallel between publishing and academia

  • Digital Strategy for Learned Societies

  • Why social media matters for academics

  • Do you edit an academic journal?

  • Knowing when to end projects

  • The things I’ve published in late 2019

  • Sampling a range of settings in qualitative interviewing

  • On Live Ethnography

  • A video introduction to Social Media for Academics

  • Connecting with what I’m actually interested in #exhaustionrebellion

  • Some screenshots from Social Media for Academics 2

  • How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

  • Social Media for Academics: The Changing Landscape of Scholarship

  • The Journal of Digital Social Research has launched!

  • Social Media for Academics 2

  • Were you a fan of Sociological Imagination?

  • A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

  • Why slowness and attentiveness aren’t the same thing

  • Social media and improvising our careers

  • Social media and academic flying

  • On sociological walking, without obsessing about the ‘sociological’

  • Your authorial fingerprint

  • Rethinking the craft of social research

  • Sociological Images: Blogging as Public Sociology

  • The Political Economy of Publishing Social Theory

  • Your ‘daily dose of Sociological Imagination’: reflections on social media and public sociology

  • So what do I actually research?

  • The public role of academics in a social media era

  • The light we steal when we write our books

  • Neurodiversity Reading Group

  • Coming soon: Social Media for Academics 2.0

  • Making time to think

  • Thinking on the Move: The Possibilities and Problems of Walking Sociologically

  • To what extent are intellectuals responsible for how their ideas are taken up?

  • Interviews with Nature Index about social media

  • Collectivising public sociology

  • A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

  • Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

  • The Kardashian index: social media and academic celebrity

  • Do you have an idea for a sociological walk?

  • CfP: Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

  • Farewell @thesocreview, it has been a wonderful five years 👋😢

  • Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

  • Programming as Social Science: a case study of @pdbrooker’s surprisingly militant bots

  • Call For Blog Posts: Reflections On Doing Sociology Outside The Global North

  • Scholarly centres of gravity

  • Have you attended a talk or workshop on social media I’ve done over the last few years?

  • Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

  • The intimacy of writing

  • Social media as a living CV for academics

  • I’ve finally finished the second edition of Social Media for Academics

  • Open science and platform capitalism: a love story?

  • 😪 How not to prepare the second edition of a book 😪

  • Are you interested in sociological fiction?

  • Are you interested in blogging about social science methodology?

  • The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

  • Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

  • Call for Papers: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work

  • What the fuck!? The great question of our age

  • Against spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu from Matthew Desmond and what it means for public sociology

  • Programming as practice

  • What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

  • An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

  • #BSADigital Live Blog: Introducing Digital Futures

  • A masterclass in post-capitalist publishing with Gary Hall

  • My imposter syndrome

  • Outflanking platitudes #1: Looking Forwards and Backwards

  • An introduction to social media for academics

  • The challenge of being ready to think

  • On being a concept wrangler

  • Books I’ve been reading

  • What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

  • The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

  • The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

  • Hybrid formats for communicating theory

  • things I’ve been reading recently #42

  • The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

  • When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

  • Carrying a book around inside your head

  • Our social media guidelines for @thesocreview #undisciplining conference

  • Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

  • Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges

  • Against slow scholarship

  • A quick guide to live tweeting

  • E-mails outside of office hours

  • A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

  • things I’ve been reading recently #41

  • If you’re in or near Cambridge over the next couple of months

  • What does it mean to have a professional identity in an age of social media?

  • Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

  • The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

  • things I’ve been reading recently #40

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