Tools
Digital tools created to assist in sociological research, data collection, and analysis.
Academic Research
Academic Journal Monitor — Live tracker of new articles across 70+ social-science journals — sociology, criminology, political economy, social theory, anthropology, political science — plus keyword discovery searches, powered by OpenAlex.
Scholarly Writing
Ibid — Checks every citation in a manuscript against its bibliography, and every entry against the text: missing works, uncited entries, wrong years, and misspelled authors, in the text or in footnotes. For Mac (free beta).
Wordrange — Counts the words in a PDF or Word manuscript part by part, the way journals count them: main text and notes, with or without the abstract, references, and appendices. For Mac (free).
RSS News Monitors
AI Monitor — Politics of artificial intelligence, AI commercialization, and compute infrastructure.
Space Monitor — Space commercialization and orbital infrastructure.
Tech Monitor — Silicon Valley: platform companies, AI labs, chips, enterprise/cloud, key individuals, and commentary.
Left Politics Monitor — Social democracy, democratic socialism, and the radical left across Europe and the Americas.
Right-Wing Politics Monitor — Right-wing populist actors across Europe, the U.S., and Brazil.
Transatlantic Right-Wing Monitor — A more comprehensive, standalone monitor of right-wing politics across 10+ countries.