• 📚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

• Social Media for Journal Editors

• The End of You Too

• An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

• A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

• Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!

• The Defensiveness of Elites

• Relational Traces

• The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

• How depoliticisation and political polarisation co-exist in American politics 

• A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

• RoboPresident: Politics in an Algorithmic World

• There are many ways to keep a digital research journal other than blogging

• Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

• The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

• The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• Early Career Researcher Event: Sociological Review Writing Retreat

• Data science meets social sciences: Understanding origins, means and consequences of social computing

• Data, Society and the Self: Digital Sociology in Theory and Practice

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• things that I’ve been reading recently #20

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

• What are ‘working papers’ for when we have social media?

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Why Digital Sociology Will Always Be Public Sociology and Vice Versa

• Cognitive triage in politics

• Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology @SocioWarwick

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• ‘Slow walking’ as a post-democratic tactic

• An Introduction to Asexuality by the BBC

• CfP: Autobiography 2.0?

• Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

• Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

• George Veletsianos on Networked Scholars

• The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

• A pleasing pile of books 

• Out Now: Social Media for Academics

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing #23

• Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• The LSE’s remarkable archive of public talks

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• Ontographology Cards: Oblique Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teams (sort of)