• 🤖 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

• 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

• Four extremely interesting digital sociology postdoc opportunities at Goldsmiths

• Self-tracking, governmentality and social control

• Notes for a realist theory of social movements 1.1

• Reminder: CFP still queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day

• Notes for a realist (mis)reading of Erving Goffman 1.1

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• The poetics of the gaze in capitalist modernity

• The most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever read

• Turn! Turn! Turn!

• How to Delete Your Facebook Account

• Help: alternatives to geo-blocking to protect sites from bots?

• Can we have a ‘turn’ to end all turns?

• Some thoughts on microfoundations and methodological individualism

• Asexuality Videos from World Pride

• Asexuality at the WorldPride 2014 Toronto Recap

• The emergence of digital sociology

• Incorporating blogging into an academic CV

• The politics of facebook