• 📚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

• What scholarly activities have you engaged in over the last week?

• Three computational sociologies

• CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

• A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond

• UCU workload survey report

• Value and Values

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

• Boredom and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

• things I’ve been reading recently #23

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Vintage social media

• The growth of the Twinterns

• Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades

• What would experimental closure look like outside of a lab?

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

• Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

• Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

• The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

• Forces of Victory

• Laziness as a virtue 

• Picturing the Social

• Work Life Balance + Digital Conference

• Billionaires are people, too

• Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

• What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

• Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• I lied about being the outdoor type

• The Invention of Lifestyle

• What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

• “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

• Omnifocus for Academics

• What does public sociology mean in an age of social media?

• A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

• Strategic distraction as a tool of political control on the Chinese internet

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• How do Americans define the sharing economy?

• Fame and the content eco-system

• The Blizzard of Photography

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur