• 📚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

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• What is a wonk?

• “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

• Call for Papers: The Journal of Repressive Social Theory

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• Sociological Fiction Zine

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change

• In defence of ‘curation’

• Using graphic novels to communicate your research

• How to attribute authorship on @soc_imagination?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#25)

• “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

• The Polysemic University

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Social Media Training Workshop

• My new chapter on the digitalisation of the archive

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in an age of Donald Trump?

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

• Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement Summer School

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination

• The Ontology of Fake News

• Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness

• things I’ve been reading recently #33

• CfP: Queer Studies Conference

• The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

• The Impact of Social Theory

• Defensive Elites

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Cities and the Political Imagination

• things I’ve been reading recently #32

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism