• 📣 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

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.2

• Social Theory as Optometry

• Call for contributions: An Alternative History of Sociology

• Gigs I wish I had attended (#1)

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#3)

• Self-tracking and social control: what would techno-fascism look like?

• Rob Kitchin on critical data studies

• What will neo-neoliberal ideology look like?

• Call for Contributions – Special Issue on Sexism

• Self-tracking and data sensibilities

• Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#2)

• Time is always running out

• Stretching the Sociological Imagination: A Conference in Honour of John Eldridge

• The slam poetry of Denice Frohman

• Qualitative self-tracking and the Qualified Self

• Bourdieusian Hipsters Explain Foucauldian Memes

• Ever wondered about how Tony Blair interprets his own drift towards right-wing politics?

• Cfp: Mini Conference on Digital Sociology

• Christian Smith on the Sacred Project of American Sociology

• The narrative significance of ‘unreadability’

• The materiality of digital technology

• Realist evaluation, mechanisms and theoretical minimalism

• A lovely review of my book!

• The Bullshit Machine

• Four extremely interesting digital sociology postdoc opportunities at Goldsmiths

• Self-tracking, governmentality and social control

• Notes for a realist theory of social movements 1.1

• Reminder: CFP still queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day

• Notes for a realist (mis)reading of Erving Goffman 1.1

• An introduction to blogging and twitter for social researchers

• The poetics of the gaze in capitalist modernity

• The most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever read

• Turn! Turn! Turn!

• How to Delete Your Facebook Account

• Help: alternatives to geo-blocking to protect sites from bots?

• Can we have a ‘turn’ to end all turns?

• Some thoughts on microfoundations and methodological individualism

• Asexuality Videos from World Pride

• Asexuality at the WorldPride 2014 Toronto Recap

• The emergence of digital sociology

• Incorporating blogging into an academic CV

• The politics of facebook

• Long drives

• Two upcoming quantified self special issues

• Adopting a homeless person

• Cfp “The ‘Spaces and Places’ of Professional Work in the Post-crisis Economy” – RC52 ‘Sociology of Professional Groups’ Interim Conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, 19-21 March 2015

• Sociologies of Everyday Life – Still Time to Submit Your Paper

• The Sociology of Hard Choices

• Interview about #asexuality for an Italian magazine

• Would you like to write for Discover Society?

• Bev Skeggs discusses the contemporary sociological imagination with Les Back