• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Warwick Oral History Network Seminar

• The many ways to be a ‘gray-A’

• Can we visually represent theory?

• Digital Sociology events at #BritSoc14

• Perhaps unsurprisingly Social Media for Academics is proving much more fun to write than my PhD was….

• A glossary of critical realist terminology

• Cycles to Gehenna

• The Psychosocial Imagination

• The academic blogosphere, scholarly craft and the end of ‘pluralistic ignorance’

• How many online accounts do you have?

• In defence of ontology

• What is progress in social theory?

• Foucauldian analysis and the mystification of elites

• Griselda Pollock, “Is Feminism a Bad Memory or a Virtual Future?”, Warwick, May 12

• The Faux Underdogs of the Digital Economy

• The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 2)

• Bourdieu meets Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, Beauvoir and Mills (in Burawoy’s imagination)

• The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 1)

• The Semiotics of Academic E-mail Signatures

• Caring in Crisis? Communications and Public Reactions to Humanitarian Crises and International Development Causes

• “I told ’em you will grow to be something tenacious and exalted, you are mighty, you are gracious, you are lauded”

• PhD Workshop: What’s the Point of Ontology?

• Why you should blog and tweet about your research

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An Invitation to DIY Sociology #1

• Women’s Spaces and Feminist Politics: one day conference at QMUL

• The Privacy of Public Sociology

• Cats vs racoons

• Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• AGender: A Conference about Female and Transgender Masculinities

• Social Media in Social Research conference, London

• Man Walks Out Of Question Time Studio Over Immigration Row

• The creepy realisation that I got lured back into facebook

• Improvisation in academic life

• Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

• David Jay on the “head clicky thing” that happens when non-asexuals suddenly understand asexuality

• BSA Seminar ‘Masculinities, Adaptation and Difference’ – deadline extended

• Older Care Home Residents and Sexuality/Intimacy.

• The politics of austerity

• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

• The Phenomenology of Reading and the Rhetoric of Theorists

• The greatest tweet I have ever seen

• Reframing the ‘self’: personal identity, social identity, self-concept and self-presentation

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• CfP: Love and Relationships in the Media

• Review of punk sociology

• Allen Ginsberg reading Howl, with music by the Kronos Quartet

• Jack Kerouac on Resonance and Subjectivity

• Disability Conferences: Prostheses and patenting, “crip displacements”, and disability sport

• The Asexuals Project

• Scroobius Pip the storyteller