• 📣 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

• Maya Angelou’s Letter to Her Younger Self

• Help: different approaches to managing departmental twitter feeds

• My current research on #asexuality #awp2014

• The politics of ‘brand protection’ in #highered

• The next phase of post-democracy? Political disagreement becoming personal prejudice, or, stop being racist against the Tories

• The future of scholarly publishing

• Getting inside people’s frames: reflexivity and cultural sociology

• Wait, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? The Newbie’s Guide to the MLA Insurgency

• Asexuality in the 1970s

• Asexual History Interest Group

• 10 ways to promote your university that don’t involve viral videos

• Professional Social Media: 10 Tips for Twitter

• Using blogs to publish working papers

• Mike Savage on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

• Critical realism and social informatics

• The future of #highered? Zero hours lecturers in “an enterprising and innovative community”

• The regulation of academic social media use

• Owen Jones – The Establishment And How They Get Away With It

• Where is Bitcoin 2.0 Heading?

• What sociologists actually do and what social theorists think they should do

• Call for Papers: Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism

• Sex therapists, pathology and asexuality

• Martin Scorsese and the Art of Silence

• Cfp – Moments of rupture – deadline for submissions extended

• Who needs Game of Thrones? Introducing the Pugs of Westeros

• An Alternative History of Sociological Thought

• Writing and your imagined audience

• The World Cup in Brazil and the Political Economy of Mega Events

• Values Beyond Value? Is Anything Beyond the Logic of Capital?

• Troubling Narratives Conference -it happened!

• The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

• “when you come across something which you had thought special and particular to you”

• Then Along Came STS….

• CFP: Triage Devices: How Organizations Manage Commitments, Goldsmiths Feb 2015

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• Critical theory and things just happening without anyone doing them

• Blogging as a “commonplace book”

• The politics of oil ownership

• The Further Sociology of Hipsters

• Evelyn Ruppert: The economies and ecologies of Big Data

• Getting out of the mess of life

• Carol Smart interviewed by Jeffrey Weeks

• The DIY PhD and the transformation of intellectual life

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• Duncan Watts on the challenge of big data

• Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

• CIM Seminar: Bodies, Rhythms and Mediation @warwickuni

• Metrics in international #highered

• Metrics and Measurement in #HigherEd

• Intellectual Trajectory and the Pleasures of Disciplinarity

• Call for contributors to A Book of Blogs #NSMNSS

• CfP: Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons