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.
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 and the U.S.
Transatlantic Right-Wing Monitor — A more comprehensive, standalone monitor of right-wing politics across 10+ countries.
Audio Briefings
Shammas Space & Tech Briefing (Spotify · YouTube) — AI-generated daily audio briefing on space, AI, and the wider tech industry.
Shammas Right-Wing Politics Briefing (Spotify · YouTube) — A daily audio briefing on right-wing and far-right political actors across Europe and the Americas — parties, figures, movements, and transnational networks.
Apps and Extensions
MDView — A lightweight Markdown reader for macOS.
URL-to-Notes — A Google Chrome extension for saving links to Apple Notes.
Claude Usage Menubar — macOS menu bar widget showing Claude usage quotas (5-hour and weekly windows).