• 📚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 future of twitter in two images

• Using big data to quantify complex social processes

• The Feudal System of Online Content

• The Sociology of Intellectual Faddishness and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

• NOFX live @ Padova 16/06/2013 Full Show

• Not Your Typical Call for Papers (cc @idlEthnographer)

• Writing with One’s Feet

• Beardyman at Coachella Festival 2013 – Full live set

• Reach for the sky

• Becoming Who We Are: theorising personal morphogenesis in a changing world

• “You can’t change the past but you can make the future & anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil”

• “in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream”

• BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Confernece 2014 – Call for Papers

• Inside Llewyn Davis, or what is it like to be a fractured reflexive?

• As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry

• The dark side of open access

• Crisis and personal morphogenesis

• The empiricist army out to rescue ‘proper evidence-based science’ from the theorists

• The ‘creative confusion’ of the near to completion PhD student (part 2) #phdchat

• “No of course the roof won’t cave in”: ontological security and reflexive poise

• Are Twitter now selling followers themselves?

• Angry Johnny & the Radio

• Representing Interiority in Film and TV

• Funding Opportunity – Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities

• Changing Intimate Exchanges and Emerging Forms of Resistance to Intensified Self-Commodification

• Regulating Intimacy Graduate Symposium

• Penguins grieving

• CfP: What are seminars for? What are conferences for? Towards DIY academic events

• A public address to the British Government by Anonymous

• I’m in the US version of the Metro (which I didn’t realise existed until recently)

• If I circulate something via my blog do people assume it’s my event?

• Has anyone else noticed this disturbing trend? Superstar profs doing ‘research’ in TV and web adverts

• CfP – Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters

• PhD Funding Opportunity: Graduate Teaching Assistantships at Leicester

• Cameron’s declaration that “money is no object” has destroyed his austerity message

• Social Media for Academics

• CFP “International Conference on Men and Masculinities”, 11-13 September 2014, IZMIR TURKEY

• CfP: Sociologies of Everyday Life

• Social Theory and Health: Celebrating the work of @GrahamScambler (March 5th 2014)

• About Participation Now

• QLRF: Monday 17th February: The Ageing Queer Populations of London

• The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell!

• Data Science Lunchtime Seminars at Warwick: Andrea Baronchelli

• Repeating yourself in academia

• 4D Research: Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research.

• Workshop: “Feminist ‘turns’ and the political economy of knowledge production”, Univ. Warwick, 28 Feb. 2014, 2-4pm

• Freedom Lasso

• iOS7 broke my iPad (part 2)

• British Society of Criminology Conference 10-12 July, 2014

• Final CFP: Geographies of Public-Art Co-Production: Let Us Talk about Public Art, but Where Are the Publics?

• CfP: Educating Young People About Sex

• Discover Society #5