• 📣 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

• The Anthropology of Hipsters (and what it reveals about Anthropology)

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• The violent rage of the ‘nice guy’

• The breaking of intellectual superstars

• “Stop closing down the debate!”: some thoughts on racism, free speech and UKIP

• What is it like to be a telephone fundraiser?

• Queer Futures – new research project

• How does someone come to identify as asexual?

• George Galloway: “I don’t want your fucking vote”

• The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

• Next Critical Sexology Seminar – 30th May – “Sex Critical Approaches to Pornography”

• Akello Stone on Visual Sociology

• Valuing Electronic Music

• The six challenges social media poses for social researchers

• The Impact Agenda and the Good (Academic) Life

• No, @tvlicensing, I still don’t own a TV. Would you please leave me alone?

• Buzzfeed and the “the acceleration of the temporal rhythm of late capitalist visual culture”

• Warwick University Ltd Conference (not this Friday but soon)

• Racism and Digital Communication and Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: 2 events at @SocioWarwick 11th June

• Call for Artwork RGS-IBG 2014: Geographies of Co-Production in the Arts

• Academics using kickstarter

• Power in a World of Becoming, Process, Entanglement & Attachment – Programme Announced – June 2-3 (please circulate)

• 31 things the current UK government have privatised or want to privatise

• CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs

• The details of the Fourth Cultural Political Economy Workshop

• Unintentionally hilarious university recruitment videos

• Academic Conferences: “Disability in Translation” and “Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane”

• Fast capitalism and peer review

• In Praise of Brevity

• Floria Charity harassed by police and couple fined $746 for feeding homeless people

• DIY Citizenship – A Symposium: Critical Making, Activism & Design

• The Performativity of Social Movements (CC @TGJBrock)

• CfP: How capitalism survives? A Marxist-Feminist perspective

• CfP: BSA Activism in Sociology Forum

• CfP: Researching Sex and Intimacy in Contemporary Life: An interdisciplinary Symposium

• Looking for an Evernote alternative? Centrallo might be what you’re looking for

• Asexuality in Television and Film: Explicit Mentions (a reference post)

• “Why do I never listen to me?”: Internal Monologues and TV Comedy

• Daniel Miller on Becoming Human

• Elizabeth Warren for President

• Sociology as a brand

• Podcasts: Digital Sociology at #BritSoc14

• CfP: The media’s evolving role in sex education

• CfP: Big Data in Political Science

• Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist Perspectives

• The professionalisation of charities

• The sociology of ‘hipsters’

• Henry Miller on The Artist and individuality, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

• When writing is hard

• CfP: Profiling Digital Sociologists

• I’d forgotten how much I love watching Parkour….

• Morphogenesis and realist meta-theory: @dlittle30 reviews Margaret Archer’s Social Morphogenesis