• 📚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

• Living with theoretical pluralism

• The Political Economy of the American South

• This week: the second Accelerated Academy

• Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

• Five propositions about #publicsociology

• What is ‘the literature’?

• The lineaments of techno-fascism

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• Social Media and Public Sociology

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

• No longer praying at the altar of virality

• A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

• Chronosolidarity

• A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

• The Practice of Public Sociology: Sociological Review Early Career Event

• Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

• Out Now: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

• A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

• Striving for a ‘rigorous’ politics

• The affinity between enlightened technocrats and digital elites

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

• Broken Fingers

• things I’ve been reading recently #29

• Digital Sociology vs STS

• The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

• The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

• Four year post doc in #digitalsociology

• Towards a Pirate Sociology

• When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

• Perfect Government

• The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation

• The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

• Upcoming @BalanceNetwork events

• The Place That Sends You Mad

• How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

• Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

• Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

• Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

• Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

• What would the European Union look like in an American context?

• The Consolations of Gaming in Digital Capitalism

• things I’ve been reading recently #28

• A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

• External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

• The Epistemic Distance of Data Scientists