• 📚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 would techno-fascist public space be like?

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

• big data and the politics of austerity 

• big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

• the big data divide 

• the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

• the perverse statism of those seeking to create a market in higher education

• Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars

• how the digital elites do festivals 

• did bill gates predict the smart phone?

• The Collective Subject as Enemy: The Public between Legal Fiction and Political Potentiality

• cfp: social media: connected cultures (via @hl_robertson)

• the chronopolitics of commitment in higher education

• southpark on the self-appointed digital elite of yelp

• digital escapology: the consultancy growth sector of the 2020s?

• post-capitalism: envisaging a shared future

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

• call for contributions: the politics of data

• The good old days

• Manchester Social Movements Conference – Call for Papers

• call for papers: IPP2016 “the platform society” (via @claudiakincaid)

• call for contributions to the @sociowarwick centre for women and gender blog 

• call for papers: digital methodologies – beyond big & small data

• call for contributions: digital sociology and the future of the discipline

• seminar on digital action repertoires 

• critical realism book launch, 8th december 

• the sociologists outside of academia group tenth anniversary meeting

• the manchester ethnography network seminar series

• the restructuring of the humanities

• the intensification of work and the notion of work/life balance

• a film about (a)sexuality I was in

• why the metrolink is a bit crap

• mark zuckerberg’s philosophy of techno-fascism

• loyalty to the facebook mission 

• transparency and opacity in digital capitalism

• the gift economy of the digital elite 

• the emergency as a tool of labour discipline 

• the motivational challenge of corporate success in tech

• structure, culture and agency: selected papers of margaret archer

• digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

• the extremely disturbing dreams of mark zuckerberg 

• the turn away from contract labour in the sharing economy 

• the multiple time regimes within facebook

• you are always being ranked and it’s your job to perform 

• the rituals of tech bros 

• the creepy rituals of the facebook office

• mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!

• the centre for social ontology book series

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• still places left for tomorrow: sociological careers outside of academia

• deadline tomorrow! the question of the human in social theory & social research