• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Call for papers: Turn Studies in Retrospect

• Data Science Fellowship Opportunity

• Problem with post scheduling in wordpress 4.0

• What are research methods for?

• The exciting future of governance

• Science Gallery Dublin – Lifelogging Lab CALL for Proposals for upcoming exhibition

• Daniel Chernilo on The Idea of Philosophical Sociology – October 14th @SocioWarwick

• The Overton Window

• Some notes on naturalism

• Why don’t more early career researchers produce podcasts?

• “I have no idea what to tweet about!”

• Nathan “Flutebox” Lee and Beardyman @ Google

• David Cameron: “I’m hardcore and I know the score, I am disgusted by the poor”

• Daniel Chernilo on The Idea of Philosophical Sociology – October 14th @SocioWarwick

• Everything that’s wrong with the UK train network in one image

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• Is Harmut Rosa in a band called Los profesores?

• Harmut Rosa on the logic of acceleration and the good life

• Is American higher education as horrible as ‘advice’ posts make it sound?

• Music to contemplate life to (#1)

• If winter ends

• Stuff I want to find out

• Reflections on five years spent studying asexuality

• Learning to say ‘no’ in #highered

• The internal conversation of James Bond

• How not to use twitter as an academic

• 7 ways to use a blog as a research journal

• I Coulda Been A Contender

• The Para-Academic Handbook: Discussion Event, Saturday 11 October @Hydra Books

• What do you actually use Evernote for?

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#8)

• Social media: a political tool or apathy’s partner in crime?

• Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons

• Why does the iPhone matter to us?

• CfP – special issue on The Quantified Self at Work

• Connecting Epistemologies: Methods and Early Career Researchers in the Connected Communities Programme

• I wouldn’t chide you, out perform, out write, and out rhyme you

• The future of social science blogging in the UK

• Gigs I wish I had attended (#2)

• “MAKE EM PURR” – SAGE FRANCIS

• What’s the difference between ‘public intellectualism’ and being unusually willing to talk about stuff in public?

• Very interesting looking Quantified Self workshop in November

• The Politics of Attachment

• Is this how the Circle got started….?

• Revisiting the Riots – Riots Reframed film screening

• An introduction to analytical sociology

• Daniel Little reviews Social Morphogenesis volume 1 and volume 2

• The sociology of thinking and cognitive mechanisms

• CfP The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare @ IEEE BIBM’14, Belfast‏‎

• The role of metaphors in framing Data Science

• The modern Data Scientist

• Wellcome Trust Symposium and The Curious Museum of Personal Medical Devices