• 🤖 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

• Asexuality World Festival 2014

• Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

• Social Theory and Intellectual Translation

• Mobile apps for qualitative research, or, the app that never was

• Is the state shrinking? Yes, even if John Redwood says it isn’t

• Identity, experience and meta-categories in social theory

• The Causal Power of Ideas

• CfP: What are conferences for? The Political economy of academic events

• A cat and a dolphin learn to interact

• Lots of free stuff from the Journal of Critical Realism

• Big Data & Society now open for submissions

• After Kinsey: (Re)Theorising Sexuality afnd Gender in a ‘Post-Closet’ Context

• The Asexual Story Project is live!

• Dear apple – can I have the space back on my ipad? Thanks

• Austerity comes to the Ukraine

• Call for papers – Moments of rupture: Event and negativity in modern thought

• Dr House successfully disproves asexuality, wins $100

• The dangers of the Kindle: attentive reading vs mining for ideas

• How to be a blogger without having your own blog

• Patrick Dunleavy on the Republic of Blogs

• And almost six years later it was finished…

• Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology (20% discount)

• “Am I living my life right? As an INTP”

• Groups: Challenges for Contemporary Political Philosophy

• The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies

• Attila the Stockbroker on Bob Crow

• Only Lovers Left Alive, or what is it like to be a meta-reflexive vampire?

• Porn Studies is Released

• God in the Quad

• The Epistemology of Civilizational Collapse

• Road to Joy

• Wilhelm Reich’s 6 Rules for Creative Sanity

• Lacuna – new magazine on human rights

• Trying to “evade the academic literature”

• “Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind”: Jack Kerouac, creativity and academic writing

• Richard Dawkins, Twitter and the dangers of thinking aloud

• Why Medium could change academic blogging

• Tony Benn – The issue is Thatcher

• Max Weber, Markets and Economic Sociology – May 7th by @nicksig1971 @sociowarwick

• The ‘creative confusion’ of the near to completion PhD student (part 3)

• PhD Comics: Les (Really) Miserables – “I Dreamed a Dream”

• Sociology and Attentiveness

• The Ontology of Human Relations and Biographical Entanglement (CC @TGJBrock)

• Dear Twitter: can you suggest ways to digitally enhance conferences?

• Using Slideshare and Prezi to disseminate your work

• Doing nothing for 2 minutes: mindfulness, hyperactivity and technology loops

• Death Online Research Symposium

• Asexual Un-Conference in NYC

• Embodied Being, Environing World: Local Biologies and Local Ecologies in Global Health

• Some thoughts on Foucault and Foucauldians I’m cutting from my thesis

• Is it ‘binge writing’ or ‘deep work’?

• My talk at WorldPride Asexual conference