• 📣 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: Writing Communities: People as Place

• Paul Krugman discusses Piketty with Bill Moyers

• Paul Krugman Makes Rand Paul’s Head Explode With Facts In ‘Big Government’ Debate

• I give it a few months before Piketty shows up in web memes…

• The Piketty Panic and the Making of Intellectual Superstars

• Digital sociology and the coming crisis of qualitative research

• Become a contributor to The Asexual Agenda!

• Has anyone else’s wordpress spam filter stopped working?

• Call for contributors: relaunch asexualitystudies.org as a group blog

• Jeremy Rifkin: “The Zero Marginal Cost Society”

• Orphans

• And I hate these things but I always attend

• Spitting like a dragon with a similar demeanour

• A Eulogy for Twitter

• Queering Higher Education Panel at SRHE Conference 2014: Call for Panel Presenters

• Governing Academic Life – conference marking 30yrs since Foucault’s death

• Elphinstone PhD Scholarship on technology and work-life bourdaries

• Lisa Diamond on Sexual Fluidity

• Why ask “why talk”?

• Overcoming ‘nature vs nurture’

• Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology

• PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

• Quantifying the time wasted by quasi-market systems

• Digital Public Sociology at #BritSoc14

• Theorizing Roles and Collective Intentionality: Contemporary Perspectives

• 5 reasons why Evernote is overrated

• How the “Internet of Things” is Killing Capitalism

• Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

• The Uncompromising Pessimism of Public Sociology

• PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

• Dogs Annoying Cats with Their Friendship

• The Centre for Social Ontology

• Question of the Week: April 22nd, 2014

• Tony Blair: ‘I say lies’

• The opposite of everythingism

• The Sociology of Everythingism

• What a clever way to encourage people to join an academic social network

• Are 90% of academic papers really never cited?

• Self-awareness and reflexive technologies

• PhD Workshop: What’s the point of social ontology?

• Games for health UK conference at Coventry University

• The making of intellectual superstars

• Video blogging your journal articles

• Warwick Oral History Network Seminar

• The many ways to be a ‘gray-A’

• Can we visually represent theory?

• Digital Sociology events at #BritSoc14

• Perhaps unsurprisingly Social Media for Academics is proving much more fun to write than my PhD was….

• A glossary of critical realist terminology

• Cycles to Gehenna

• The Psychosocial Imagination

• The academic blogosphere, scholarly craft and the end of ‘pluralistic ignorance’