• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚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

• Connecting Epistemologies: Methods and Early Career Researchers in the Connected Communities Programme

• I wouldn’t chide you, out perform, out write, and out rhyme you

• The future of social science blogging in the UK

• Gigs I wish I had attended (#2)

• “MAKE EM PURR” – SAGE FRANCIS

• What’s the difference between ‘public intellectualism’ and being unusually willing to talk about stuff in public?

• Very interesting looking Quantified Self workshop in November

• The Politics of Attachment

• Is this how the Circle got started….?

• Revisiting the Riots – Riots Reframed film screening

• An introduction to analytical sociology

• Daniel Little reviews Social Morphogenesis volume 1 and volume 2

• The sociology of thinking and cognitive mechanisms

• CfP The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare @ IEEE BIBM’14, Belfast‏‎

• The role of metaphors in framing Data Science

• The modern Data Scientist

• Wellcome Trust Symposium and The Curious Museum of Personal Medical Devices

• Research ‘Ignite’ CFP – Being Human in a Digital Age

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.4

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#7)

• On Sex-Favourable Asexuality

• What would happen if an evil scientist wiped the memories of everyone within a workplace?

• Social Acceleration and Musical Innovation

• Notes on The Social Life of Theory 1.3

• Pop Sonnets

• Harmut Rosa engages with the work of Margaret Archer

• An introduction to curation tools

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#6)

• Help: examples of academics finding, collating and filtering information

• Struggling to put words to an idea

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#5)

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.3

• Notes on the Social Life of Theory 1.2

• The sociology of data science

• When writing on the iPad becomes a pleasure rather than a chore

• Self-tracking, social control and cognitive triage: the trials and tribulations of aspiring financiers

• Solving the problem of finding images for blog posts

• When marketers are too lazy to disguise their fill in the blanks

• Notes on the Social Life of Theory 1.1

• ‘Governing Money After Bitcoin and the “Sharing Economy’, Bill Maurer (UCI), Mon 8 Sep, 2-4pm

• Workshop 11-12th November 2014 – ‘Occupying Politics in a Time of Alterity’

• Remember when you lost your shit and drove the car into the garden….?

• Customer experience metrics

• Call for contributions: An Alternative History of Sociology

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• The Philosophy of Data Science

• The five modes of self-tracking

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#4)

• The artistic opportunities afforded by self-tracking technology

• Social media @NatCen Learning workshops with me & Dhiraj Murthy

• Lots and lots of blogging

• The political socialisation of Barack Obama