• 📚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

• things I’ve been reading recently #10

• I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.

• the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

• The @_ISRF @DigitalSocSci and @BigDataSoc Essay Competition

• the synchronised society

• the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

• and the evilest of nine’s guaranteed to shoot crooked

• freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking

• memes are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• fitter, happier, more productive

• social engineers have never had so many options at their disposal

• the micro-politics of noise and the challenge of being-with-others

• I should’ve found a way out, so everyone can find a way out

• Relational Flourishing

• Normal service has been resumed: I will never trying closing my personal blog again

• Things I’ve been reading recently #9

• Towards a Digital Social Ontology: Free Day Symposium in London on July 8th

• Are you a PhD student or early career researcher interested in social ontology?

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#16)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #8

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#15)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #7

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Dear England

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#14)

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline TOMORROW)

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline TOMORROW!)

• Conlon Nancarrow

• Consultancy

• Using social media to destroy academic jargon

• How to live tweet effectively at academic conferences

• The Philosophy of Data Science

• Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

• The International Origins of Social and Political Theory

• Non-conventional academic career paths

• Is the murky world of internet marketing making me paranoid?

• How connected is your university to the arms trade?

• The Potential of Video Essays for Scholarly Communication

• Legally navigating academic blogging and social media – next Wednesday

• Two UCU member sacked for allegedly leaking information about the V-C to the press

• The Responsibilities of Academics

• The Future’s Not What it Used To Be

• Data Big and Small: Past, Present and Future

• Who are you to wave your finger?

• The challenges to creativity in higher education

• Register in the next week if you want to ensure a place – Workshop @SocioWarwick: Investigating the Internal Conversation

• “so I only stop to tell her that I love her at the red lights”

• Algorithmic Blacklisting: Big Data & Industrial Conflict