• 📚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

• Mining resonance to the point of exhaustion, or, why does this sound so shit to me now?

• (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy

• Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• The cultural sociology of defensive elites

• Détournement and social media

• The weaponisation of epistemology: strategy and tactics

• The underdetermination of agency by architecture

• An introduction to social media for academics

• Fascinating call for papers on infrastructural politics 

• Trump administration seeking permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records

• The challenge of being ready to think

• On being a concept wrangler

• The organic sociology of Silicon Valley

• The everyday life of platform capitalism’s elites

• The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

• Against poststructuralism

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• Where do data scientists come from?

• The generational politics of critical theory

• Socialising the machines

• SRA Annual Conference 2018: Adapting to change – where next for social research?

• CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

• The Foundations of British Sociology

• Films I’ve seen recently

• Books I’ve been reading

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• Will I survive a nine mile walk and make it home to Molly?

• Workshop: The Foundations of British Sociology

• I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

• When the populists inspire the ad men

• What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

• The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

• The disjointed temporality of political life

• The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

• The claustrophobia of imminence

• The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

• What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

• Hybrid formats for communicating theory

• The Face in the Crowd

• The Sociological Review and the History of the Discipline

• The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

• The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

• Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

• things I’ve been reading recently #42

• What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

• From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

• The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference