• 📚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

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• Deadline soon! @TheSocReview ECR Essay Competition

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• Quit social media

• Some recent videos of Harmut Rosa talking about social acceleration

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• The Digital Everyday: Exploration or Alienation?

• CfP: The Future Between Progress and Regression

• A reading list on interdisciplinarity, with a conceptual and digital bias

• The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

• The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• The Distraction of the Networked Writer

• Discipline and innovate 

• It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

• The self-importance of researchers

• Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

• What did I do in 2016?

• The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

• Why Academics Must Use Social Media

• Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

• What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

• Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

• On Teaching Theory

• The Happy Unemployment of Horses

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 3

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 2

• My 20 favourite graphic novels of 2016

• My 20 favourite books of 2016

• The proliferation of books

• things I’ve been reading recently #30

• Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

• Carrying the weight of the world

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

• A collection of definitions of ‘Impact’

• The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

• Bounded autonomy in the workplace

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• Next week in Oxford: Digital Sociology v STS

• Communism for the few

• Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

• The Climate Agenda of Elites