• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• I’ve never had a contract with @VirginMedia, yet they’re sending me details of my ‘spending’

• Calling PhDs & ECRs: @thesocreview conference funding competition is now open!

• things I’ve been reading recently #17

• the most read posts on my blog in 2015

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

• ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

• CfP: Mediated Intimacies

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

• Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

• #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

• Social Science as Communication

• Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

• 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the riddle of society 

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• some thoughts on responsibility

• some thoughts about the accelerated academy

• Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

• the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

• research as a mode of resistance 

• critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

• animals being amazed by magic tricks

• buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

• why would anyone use Hootsuite rather than Buffer?

• Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption

• towards a sociology of human flourishing

• AoIR 2016: Call for Proposals (anyone interested in proposing a #digitalsociology session?)

• putting together an AoIR panel on Instagram

• The Challenge of Sociological Writing w/ @AcademicDiary, @thesiswhisperer & @ThomsonPat

• follow #fastuni for live tweeting from the accelerated academy

• In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Scicence Hub

• Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges

• Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity

• Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

• the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! TOMORROW at 11am

• an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

• Call for papers: digital gaming (cc @TGJBrock)

• Call for Papers: The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu

• an introduction to social ontology

• neil gaiman’s 8 rules of writing

• what makes human beings distinctive amongst animals?

• research blogs as monuments to treating ideas seriously

• are you conducting research on reflexivity?

• a question about cultural globalisation

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• things I’ve been reading recently #16

• cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

• reflections on six years spent studying asexuality 

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing 

• why are we not boycotting academia.edu?

• “world of warcraft is the new golf”

• what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• social media and social science research ethics

• social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods

• images of the human in digital social science

• got an idea for a monograph? submit to @thesocreview monograph call

• places available: the challenge of sociological writing

• call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

• follow @accelerateduni for accelerated academy updates

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

• call for proposals: @thesocreview seminar competition

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

• CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• the politics of stupidity

• the next front in the war on ad blocking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• digital capitalism and the search for work

• Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• deadline tomorrow to register for the accelerated academy!

• giddens on digital tech

• call for proposals: @thesocreview monograph series

• funding call: @thesocreview seminar competition 2016/2017

• mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• four days left to register for the accelerated academy! deadline nov 20th

• a sociological podcast about culture

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• an accelerated academy reading list

• the need for the social sciences to reclaim their intellectual authority 

• academia is killing my friends