• 📚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 and the noise it injects into daily life 

• the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

• how many dancing billionaires are there at burning man?

• a perpetual-motion machine that runs on a weird mix of dissatisfaction and eternal hope

• digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

• acronyms seriously suck 

• the hiring rituals of tech companies 

• the performativity of bins

• interview with the founder and ceo of palantir

• the pleasures of intensified work

• does your monograph not deserve a trailer?

• my tips on social media for academics in the times higher

• the paypal mafia

• the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

• the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

• things I’ve been reading recently #14

• one month left : the @ijsrm seminar competition

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

• a week left to register: the question of the human in social theory & social research

• an image I can’t get out of my mind

• the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

• the insular world of a technology giant

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

• remembering cinemania: the history of digitalisation 

• german is such a wonderful language 

• a foretaste of the coming uber wars

• the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

• the coding skills bubble

• the dangerous distraction of tech-utopianism

• my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

• algorithmic alienation of aspiring asylum seekers

• big data barbarism

• time use event in oxford

• rejecting the dependence of higher education upon flying 

• innovation through appropriation

• the challenge of sociological writing

• social media for academics: available for pre-order!

• digital distraction and human concern 

• towards a meta-critique of data science 

• the motivational culture of early microsoft 

• the fascinating crudeness of early digital rights management 

• upcoming bird la bird events in london

• why the left should not support the britain stronger in europe campaign

• a case of you

• the esoteric appeal of tony giddens

• how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens

• liberating yourself from leisure activities

• must not sleep, must warn others

• dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

• the 2015/16 @sociowarwick seminar series

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research