• The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Breathe for me: interesting performance event in collaboration with @sociowarwick

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• A podcast about Social Media for Academics

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Creating an ‘idea index’

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• #YesWeCode Initiative

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• things I’ve been reading recently #21

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”

• Children’s and Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• Pace Science: Data, Acceleration, Duration (cc @filvos)

• The value of university managed online spaces

• How to use social media for academic purposes

• Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

• BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• Death Online Research: Last minute CFA 

• Steve Fuller on information overload

• Are you coming to @thesocreview’s Annual Lecture?

• Do we need to reorientate Sociological thought? Or are perpetual calls to do this part of the problem?

• How will social media transform #highered?

• “What do you do?”

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• Re-orienting Sociological Thought: May 11th at @CardiffSOCSI

• Against the ‘slow professor’

• Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

• Why do you find social media useful as an academic?

• Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

• ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

• The Materiality of the Digital

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• Crafting an online identity

• So what is ‘networking’?

• Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

• Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

• Academic Social Media in the Research Economy

• Isomorphic Inequalities

• Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

• The new cheapest place to order Social Media for Academics online

• Would you like to recommend Social Media for Academics to your library?

• What people who ordered Social Media for Academics also bought

• CfP: 2016 Learning with MOOCs Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania

• Using Social Media to Manage Information

• The Growth of Political Consultancy

• The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

• How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

• Tweets about Social Media for Academics

• Slack and Basecamp for Academics

• Patience for the epigrammatic, but brief

• The Difference Between Stealing and Copying

• #BritSoc16 fringe event: ‘Radical Education Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University’

• Social Media for Journal Editors

• An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

• A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

• Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!

• The Defensiveness of Elites

• Relational Traces

• The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

• A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

• RoboPresident: Politics in an Algorithmic World

• There are many ways to keep a digital research journal other than blogging

• Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

• The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

• The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• Early Career Researcher Event: Sociological Review Writing Retreat

• Data science meets social sciences: Understanding origins, means and consequences of social computing

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• things that I’ve been reading recently #20

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

• What are ‘working papers’ for when we have social media?

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Why Digital Sociology Will Always Be Public Sociology and Vice Versa

• Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• An Introduction to Asexuality by the BBC

• George Veletsianos on Networked Scholars

• A pleasing pile of books 

• Out Now: Social Media for Academics