• 📚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

• The Privacy of Public Sociology

• Cats vs racoons

• Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• AGender: A Conference about Female and Transgender Masculinities

• Social Media in Social Research conference, London

• Man Walks Out Of Question Time Studio Over Immigration Row

• The creepy realisation that I got lured back into facebook

• Improvisation in academic life

• Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

• David Jay on the “head clicky thing” that happens when non-asexuals suddenly understand asexuality

• BSA Seminar ‘Masculinities, Adaptation and Difference’ – deadline extended

• Older Care Home Residents and Sexuality/Intimacy.

• The politics of austerity

• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

• The Phenomenology of Reading and the Rhetoric of Theorists

• The greatest tweet I have ever seen

• Reframing the ‘self’: personal identity, social identity, self-concept and self-presentation

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• CfP: Love and Relationships in the Media

• Review of punk sociology

• Allen Ginsberg reading Howl, with music by the Kronos Quartet

• Jack Kerouac on Resonance and Subjectivity

• Disability Conferences: Prostheses and patenting, “crip displacements”, and disability sport

• The Asexuals Project

• Scroobius Pip the storyteller

• Asexuality World Festival 2014

• Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

• Social Theory and Intellectual Translation

• Mobile apps for qualitative research, or, the app that never was

• Is the state shrinking? Yes, even if John Redwood says it isn’t

• Identity, experience and meta-categories in social theory

• The Causal Power of Ideas

• CfP: What are conferences for? The Political economy of academic events

• A cat and a dolphin learn to interact

• Lots of free stuff from the Journal of Critical Realism

• Big Data & Society now open for submissions

• After Kinsey: (Re)Theorising Sexuality afnd Gender in a ‘Post-Closet’ Context

• The Asexual Story Project is live!

• Dear apple – can I have the space back on my ipad? Thanks

• Austerity comes to the Ukraine

• Call for papers – Moments of rupture: Event and negativity in modern thought

• Dr House successfully disproves asexuality, wins $100

• The dangers of the Kindle: attentive reading vs mining for ideas

• How to be a blogger without having your own blog

• Patrick Dunleavy on the Republic of Blogs

• And almost six years later it was finished…

• Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology (20% discount)

• “Am I living my life right? As an INTP”

• Groups: Challenges for Contemporary Political Philosophy

• The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies

• Attila the Stockbroker on Bob Crow