• Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• The LSE’s remarkable archive of public talks

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• Ontographology Cards: Oblique Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teams (sort of)

• The Politics of an Uncertain Future

• Writing praxes beyond papers and books

• Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy

• stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

• defensive elites and the actions they’re willing to take

• Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

• Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

• Early Career Researcher Event @TheSocReview: A Master-Class with Professor Éric Fassin

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• Social Media and Social Futures

• The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

• The Promise of the Pivot Format

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

• The Feral Interdisciplinarian

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• On Techno-Fascism

• The Videos from @AcceleratedUni

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• things that I’ve been reading recently #19

• 17 podcasts about realist social theory

• 35 podcasts about #digitalsociology

• Fictive Futures: Exploring Future Research Agendas

• Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Relating to data through visualisation: three funded PhD studentships in the UK

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue on Body Weight and Digital Media

• Should academics blog? Rather unsurprisingly I suggest that they should

• Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

• the peak experiences of intensified work

• the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

• things that I’ve been reading recently #18

• on nihilism and hope

• FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

• Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

• Critical Realism 2016 reminder

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• Social Science History Association 2016 CFP

• Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research

• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Interesting communications summer school for PhD students 

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

• Collaborative Work and Social Media: Responding to the rapid spread of provocative content

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• flagging Facebook users showing signs of radicalisation 

• the practical mastery of animals

• EPIC 2016 CfP

• the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

• The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

• The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

• CfP: Citizen Science: Beyond the Laboratory

• The meritocratic elitism of Google 

• an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

• Call for chapters: digital existence 

• CFP: Critical Data Studies track at 4S/EASST

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• the ultimate Rocky training montage

• Violent Abandonment: researching the Calais Refugee Camp – @SocioWarwick Seminar Wednesday 20 January

• social theorising is more important than social theory

• Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

• Living by numbers: big data & society

• Call for Blog Posts: the Rise of the Superstar Professor

• will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

• Call for Papers: Digital Methodologies – Beyond Big & Small Data

• Digital Social Science Essay Competition

• International Conference for Critical Realism 2016 in Cardiff: registration open

• songs from Brian Fallon’s new solo album

• Google’s war against latency

• Workshop: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• the challenge of life planning in a digital age

• Google Anything, So Long as It’s Not Google

• the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

• “now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry

• one month left: the @bigdatasoc & @digitalsocsci essay competition

• dear PhDs/ECRs: need funding to go to a conference? @thesocreview can help

• 2 weeks left to submit: digital methodologies, beyond big & small data

• my plans for 2016

• grooming the next generation of the digital elite

• the political psychology of the super rich