• 📣 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

• CfP: Children, Young People and Changing Urban Spaces’ conference at the University of Northampton

• Making the ‘Precariat’: Unemployment, Insecurity and Work-Poor Young Adults in Harsh Economic Conditions

• A BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Are Elite Universities Meritocratic?

• PhD and Postdcotoral positions on Complex Sytems at IFISC (cc @thedatascilab) #compsocsci

• The Muppets explain Phenomenology (via @TGJBrock)

• Normcore and the Anxieties of Big Data

• From “I’m alright, Jack” to “Fuck you, Jack”

• Bernard Stiegler – Hermeneutics, Heuristics, and Paideia in the Digital Epistémè

• Doppelganger

• The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane

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

• BSA happiness Study Group Seminar Novermber 2014 Northumbria University

• The Twitter ‘favourite’ button explained by @death_stairs

• The weird world of high-frequency trading

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

• Five Recommendations for Social Scientists in responding to big data

• ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT!: The Psychosocial Imagination APS Launch Symposium 13 June

• Computational Social Science Conference

• Discover Society Issue 9

• CfP: Plunging into Turmoil: Social Sciences and the Crisis, Lisbon, 16-17 October, 2014

• CFP: still queer / a postgraduate and early-career work-in-progress study day at Queer@King’s

• Slavoj Žižek (2014) “Why I Hate Snow and Office Hours”

• CfP: What is intersectional about intersectionality now

• Workshop on animal agency and selfhood

• All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#1)

• University complaints by students top 20,000

• So someone actually made the perfect writing software….

• Computational Social Science Conference

• The International Asexuality conference – 28 June 2014, Toronto

• A Brief History of John Baldessari (narrated by Tom Waits)

• Apply now: Ninja Rockstar Content Associates needed A.S.A.P

• Computational Social Science Conference

• I just realised @soc_imagination is 4 years old tomorrow

• The sociology of Elliot Rodger

• CfP: Youth Activism and Resistance Conference

• CfP: Theorising Personal Medical Devices: New Perspectives

• Special Issue on ‘Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy

• Coming across old projects you completely forgot about

• Alan Watts on Empiricism

• Why Google’s driverless cars baffle me

• “With every racist pointed finger, I hear the goose steps getting closer”

• Computational Social Science Conference

• The rise of think tanks

• The seedy(ish) world of content marketing

• Concurrences in Postcolonial Research conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 20-23 August 2015

• Nigel Farage vs. Tony Blair

• So @soc_imagination is supposedly the 4th most popular Economics blog in the UK

• Computational Social Science Conference

• Valuing electronic music

• Margaret Archer interviewed in Times Higher Education

• Why do people blame their iPads for the fact they can’t concentrate in meetings?