• 📚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

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Creating an ‘idea index’

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• #YesWeCode Initiative

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The foundational lie of digital capitalism

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• ‘Economic Science Fictions’ – call for essays

• things I’ve been reading recently #21

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”

• Rant-driven journalism 

• The emergence of the ‘informal advisor’ in Washington politics 

• Post-democracy’s no-nonsense purveyors of hard political truths

• Children’s and Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• Pace Science: Data, Acceleration, Duration (cc @filvos)

• A symposium on the digital subject

• Help support @DiscoverSoc

• The value of university managed online spaces

• How to use social media for academic purposes

• Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

• BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

• The Dual-Edged Character of Digital Freedom

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The entrepreneurial journalist

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• Death Online Research: Last minute CFA 

• Steve Fuller on information overload

• Are you coming to @thesocreview’s Annual Lecture?

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• Are you studying the internal conversation? Get in touch soon for a free workshop

• Do we need to reorientate Sociological thought? Or are perpetual calls to do this part of the problem?

• The Future of Data Science

• How will social media transform #highered?

• The Politics of Time and the Possibility of Democracy

• The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain

• “What do you do?”

• The Temporal Constraints of Consumption

• The chronopolitics of consumer anxiety

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Re-orienting Sociological Thought: May 11th at @CardiffSOCSI

• The Fracturing of Free Time

• I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead

• all the world is green

• Against the ‘slow professor’