• “so I only stop to tell her that I love her at the red lights”

• Algorithmic Blacklisting: Big Data & Industrial Conflict

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Conferences

• Call for Papers: Doing Time in the Sociology of Education

• The limitations of academic talk

• Thatcher Fucked The Kids

• Distracted People and Fragile Movements: a relational realist theory of social movement in a digital age

• No to outsourcing of academic staff! Public meeting by @warwickucu on Wednesday

• Call for Papers – Scold’s to Trolls; Social and Legal Responses to Visible and Audible Women

• CFP – Global Cultures of Contestation

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st!)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline May 1st!)

• The Avoidance of the Intellectual

• Sociological questions about the coming era of data-driven privatised policing

• Why you should @readcube to manage your library of papers

• David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’

• Social Science Funding in the US potentially on the verge of being cut in half

• “all the things I believed with all my heart when I was young are just coasters for beers & clean surfaces for drugs”

• The Two Tier Future of Employment in UK Higher Education

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Civility

• Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

• I like the #CatManifesto

• The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Idea

• CfP: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

• President of Imperial College London: “Professors are really like small business owners”

• The Surprisingly Rapid Destruction of the Professions

• Loner

• The Writing Routine of Richard Sennett

• The overarching questions which interest me

• Constructing a sociological career in the accelerated academy

• “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

• Kitten Mittens

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• A new resource for teaching social theory

• An initial attempt to critique co-evolutionary approaches to understanding the socio-technical

• Reflexivity and the Social Production of Distraction

• The Rise of the Self-Funded Studentship and What It Says About Academia (and Academics)

• Theory Stream Plenary at the BSA Annual Conference

• Transformative Practice and Theory: Where We Stand Today

• Podcast: Andrew Sayer on Why Things Matter To People

• Reframing Margaret Archer’s critique of habitus

• Who could object to a project that seeks to stop killer robots?

• University tuition fees in England are now, on average, the highest in the world

• Workshop: Investigating the Internal Conversation

• Big Data & Society – Early Career Researcher Forum

• Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

• Cognitive Triage and Television

• The Strange Transformation of Gideon Osborne

• The reality of the ‘rapper sword dance’ does not match the image the phrase conveyed in my mind

• The place of sociology in the Second Machine Age

• That time we went on a pub crawl with Karl Marx

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

• Videocast of the Algorithms and Accountability conference (cc @DALupton @SusanJHalford)

• “I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded”

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

• When shopping is a baffling ordeal

• Dear academic hive mind, please help me identify radical education projects in the UK

• Relational Realism, Collective Reflexivity and Social Movements

• The pathetic triviality of the discourse on ‘campus censorship’

• The surprisingly vitriolic misogyny of James Bond

• Call for Papers ECREA Symposium Political Agency in the Digital Age

• What would British fascism look like?

• “I had it all figured out then it washed away”

• Outline of a relational realist theory of anarchism

• The dead zones of the imagination in higher education

• Straight with a twist”: reflections on heterosexuality beyond the heteronormal

• (Re)situating Queer Theory on the Critical Left

• The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism

• Academic entrepreneurship and white privilege

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• Is it just managers who are heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest?

• How obsessive auditing produces “a profession which is incompatible with a normal life”

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• IFTTT just raised their game

• The drip-by-drip erosion of our liberties in an age of austerity

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Help: need to escape from intractably useless web host

• Overcoming your modernist training for constant improvement, advancement, development and accumulation

• Some brief thoughts about digital social ontology

• Brian Fallon covering Oasis

• The Emperor’s New Clothes

• Creativity as Apophatic

• What will micro-publishing look like in higher education?

• Stewart Lee on Twitter

• The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology, July 8th in London

• Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2015

• Call for papers: Doing Justice to Figures

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 3

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

• The Social Ontology of L.S. Lowry

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 1

• A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behavior

• If this works reliably then I want one now

• Why I can’t take Osborne or Cameron seriously when they promise to ‘wage war’ on tax evasion & avoidance

• From the quantified self to the quantified dog

• A case study in the contrivances of marketing: The @NPowerHQ Price Promise