• 📚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 concept of ‘mobile literacy’

• The sociology of expectations (and platform imaginaries)

• A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

• Taking back control: what happens when people realise they were lied to?

• Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

• Externalisation as defence mechanism

• The components of digital literacy

• Lateral vs vertical evaluation of sources

• Corbynism without Corbyn

• The Kardashian index: social media and academic celebrity

• When the venture capitalists tried to get to Edward Snowden

• And who are you supposed to be?

• Optimism as a political factor in Brexit Britain

• How education imagines the future

• Austerity politics as reactionary populism

• Beyond the myth of the ‘cyberkid’

• It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

• The Great Disruptive Project

• Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

• Do you have an idea for a sociological walk?

• The moral theories of platform engineers

• CfP: Planetary Magic – Elemental Engagements with (Chinese) Digital Infrastructures in an Age of Loss

• So you were born, and that was a good day

• CfP: Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

• Farewell @thesocreview, it has been a wonderful five years 👋😢

• CfP: What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?

• Digital literacy as individual and collective empowerment

• What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines

• The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing

• Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

• The epistemological conservatism of the accelerated academy

• Organisational sociology and algorithms

• A cybernetics of distraction?

• Programming as Social Science: a case study of @pdbrooker’s surprisingly militant bots

• Driving robots mad 

• The strange performances of the brain

• The ontological gap between entities and interaction

• Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

• Call For Blog Posts: Reflections On Doing Sociology Outside The Global North

• “If you are for or against dictatorship, call in”: the terrifying turn in British politics

• Ontological veiling   

• Scholarly centres of gravity

• Big data and the future of sociological theory

• Have you attended a talk or workshop on social media I’ve done over the last few years?

• Cybernetics as a way of life

• Theorising the relationship between data and agency

• Call for papers: literature and sociology

• The dream of reducing learning to teaching

• lights are out, phones are dead and I’m the only thing that’s runnin in this city

• How do data come to matter?

• The coming supply crisis in UK higher education

• The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose