• 📚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

• voluntarily disclosed personal information online and susceptibility to manipulation 

• why dehumanisation matters 

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

• reflections on six years spent studying asexuality 

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing 

• why are we not boycotting academia.edu?

• “world of warcraft is the new golf”

• what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

• digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

• social media and social science research ethics

• the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

• techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

• social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods

• images of the human in digital social science

• “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

• got an idea for a monograph? submit to @thesocreview monograph call

• places available: the challenge of sociological writing

• call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

• follow @accelerateduni for accelerated academy updates

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

• Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

• call for proposals: @thesocreview seminar competition

• the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

• the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

• peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

• the ascendancy of the quants 

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• the politics of stupidity

• the next front in the war on ad blocking 

• the old world of banking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• digital capitalism and the search for work

• Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

• organisational minimalism