• Ever wondered about how Tony Blair interprets his own drift towards right-wing politics?

• Cfp: Mini Conference on Digital Sociology

• Christian Smith on the Sacred Project of American Sociology

• The narrative significance of ‘unreadability’

• The materiality of digital technology

• Realist evaluation, mechanisms and theoretical minimalism

• A lovely review of my book!

• The Bullshit Machine

• Four extremely interesting digital sociology postdoc opportunities at Goldsmiths

• Self-tracking, governmentality and social control

• Notes for a realist theory of social movements 1.1

• Reminder: CFP still queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day

• Notes for a realist (mis)reading of Erving Goffman 1.1

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• The poetics of the gaze in capitalist modernity

• The most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever read

• Turn! Turn! Turn!

• How to Delete Your Facebook Account

• Help: alternatives to geo-blocking to protect sites from bots?

• Can we have a ‘turn’ to end all turns?

• Some thoughts on microfoundations and methodological individualism

• Asexuality Videos from World Pride

• Asexuality at the WorldPride 2014 Toronto Recap

• The emergence of digital sociology

• Incorporating blogging into an academic CV

• The politics of facebook

• Long drives

• Two upcoming quantified self special issues

• Adopting a homeless person

• Cfp “The ‘Spaces and Places’ of Professional Work in the Post-crisis Economy” – RC52 ‘Sociology of Professional Groups’ Interim Conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, 19-21 March 2015

• Sociologies of Everyday Life – Still Time to Submit Your Paper

• The Sociology of Hard Choices

• Interview about #asexuality for an Italian magazine

• Would you like to write for Discover Society?

• Bev Skeggs discusses the contemporary sociological imagination with Les Back

• Maya Angelou’s Letter to Her Younger Self

• Help: different approaches to managing departmental twitter feeds

• My current research on #asexuality #awp2014

• The politics of ‘brand protection’ in #highered

• The next phase of post-democracy? Political disagreement becoming personal prejudice, or, stop being racist against the Tories

• The future of scholarly publishing

• Getting inside people’s frames: reflexivity and cultural sociology

• Wait, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? The Newbie’s Guide to the MLA Insurgency

• Asexuality in the 1970s

• Asexual History Interest Group

• 10 ways to promote your university that don’t involve viral videos

• Professional Social Media: 10 Tips for Twitter

• Using blogs to publish working papers

• Mike Savage on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

• Critical realism and social informatics

• The future of #highered? Zero hours lecturers in “an enterprising and innovative community”

• The regulation of academic social media use

• Owen Jones – The Establishment And How They Get Away With It

• Where is Bitcoin 2.0 Heading?

• What sociologists actually do and what social theorists think they should do

• Call for Papers: Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism

• Sex therapists, pathology and asexuality

• Martin Scorsese and the Art of Silence

• Cfp – Moments of rupture – deadline for submissions extended

• Who needs Game of Thrones? Introducing the Pugs of Westeros

• An Alternative History of Sociological Thought

• Writing and your imagined audience

• The World Cup in Brazil and the Political Economy of Mega Events

• Values Beyond Value? Is Anything Beyond the Logic of Capital?

• Troubling Narratives Conference -it happened!

• The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

• “when you come across something which you had thought special and particular to you”

• Then Along Came STS….

• CFP: Triage Devices: How Organizations Manage Commitments, Goldsmiths Feb 2015

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• Critical theory and things just happening without anyone doing them

• Blogging as a “commonplace book”

• The politics of oil ownership

• The Further Sociology of Hipsters

• Evelyn Ruppert: The economies and ecologies of Big Data

• Getting out of the mess of life

• Carol Smart interviewed by Jeffrey Weeks

• The DIY PhD and the transformation of intellectual life

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• Duncan Watts on the challenge of big data

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• CIM Seminar: Bodies, Rhythms and Mediation @warwickuni

• Metrics in international #highered

• Metrics and Measurement in #HigherEd

• Intellectual Trajectory and the Pleasures of Disciplinarity

• Call for contributors to A Book of Blogs #NSMNSS

• CfP: Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons

• CfP: Children, Young People and Changing Urban Spaces’ conference at the University of Northampton

• Making the ‘Precariat’: Unemployment, Insecurity and Work-Poor Young Adults in Harsh Economic Conditions

• A BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Are Elite Universities Meritocratic?

• PhD and Postdcotoral positions on Complex Sytems at IFISC (cc @thedatascilab) #compsocsci

• The Muppets explain Phenomenology (via @TGJBrock)

• Normcore and the Anxieties of Big Data

• From “I’m alright, Jack” to “Fuck you, Jack”

• Bernard Stiegler – Hermeneutics, Heuristics, and Paideia in the Digital Epistémè

• Doppelganger

• The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• BSA happiness Study Group Seminar Novermber 2014 Northumbria University

• The Twitter ‘favourite’ button explained by @death_stairs