• the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

• things I’ve been reading recently #15

• expedia and communicative escalation 

• fear of failure and the coding skills bubble

• further communicative escalation from expedia (yay!)

• a question about digital social science

• call for proposals: social media & society in london

• ten post docs (!) on temporality 

• your attention please! digital capitalism and communicative escalation  

• more spam directed at international event organisers

• are any other event organisers getting emails like this?

• distinct digital-advertising landscapes are increasingly drawn on socioeconomic lines

• the ‘soft coup’ currently taking place in portugal 

• the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

• from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

• a working group to create a realist sociology of flourishing

• what would techno-fascist public space be like?

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• the perverse statism of those seeking to create a market in higher education

• Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars

• The Collective Subject as Enemy: The Public between Legal Fiction and Political Potentiality

• cfp: social media: connected cultures (via @hl_robertson)

• the chronopolitics of commitment in higher education

• digital escapology: the consultancy growth sector of the 2020s?

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

• call for contributions: the politics of data

• Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers

• call for papers: IPP2016 “the platform society” (via @claudiakincaid)

• call for contributions to the @sociowarwick centre for women and gender blog 

• call for papers: digital methodologies – beyond big & small data

• call for contributions: digital sociology and the future of the discipline

• seminar on digital action repertoires 

• critical realism book launch, 8th december 

• the sociologists outside of academia group tenth anniversary meeting

• the restructuring of the humanities

• the intensification of work and the notion of work/life balance

• a film about (a)sexuality I was in

• why the metrolink is a bit crap

• structure, culture and agency: selected papers of margaret archer

• the centre for social ontology book series

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• still places left for tomorrow: sociological careers outside of academia

• deadline tomorrow! the question of the human in social theory & social research

• social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

• the performativity of bins

• does your monograph not deserve a trailer?

• my tips on social media for academics in the times higher

• things I’ve been reading recently #14

• one month left : the @ijsrm seminar competition

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• a week left to register: the question of the human in social theory & social research

• an image I can’t get out of my mind

• german is such a wonderful language 

• time use event in oxford

• rejecting the dependence of higher education upon flying 

• the challenge of sociological writing

• social media for academics: available for pre-order!

• upcoming bird la bird events in london

• why the left should not support the britain stronger in europe campaign

• the esoteric appeal of tony giddens

• how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens

• dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

• “work hard to find something that fascinates you”: richard feynman’s advice to students

• the backstory to creative work

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

• fiction and the social imaginary

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• call for papers: qualitative methods and data in digital societies

• things I’ve been reading recently #13

• register for the accelerated academy

• digital social science essay competition

• Digital footprints

• good cafes in manchester to work in

• registration now open: power, acceleration and metrics in academic life

• Felix & Adelita

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• things I’ve been reading recently #12

• this is not a pipe

• social media and the promise of never again being alone 

• attribution in live tweeting

• blogging as an outboard brain

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• things I’ve been reading recently #11

• social media and academic freedom

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• the question no one seems willing to answer about university branding

• using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

• the ethos of openness

• when people falsely impute research to you

• blogging your fieldwork

• social media and solidarity in higher education

• the coming copyright wars on twitter

• using snapchat in higher education

• how to evaluate your web page for accessibility

• what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

• #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

• oppression and self-promotion on social media

• the creepy treehouse problem

• things I’ve been reading recently #10