• 📣 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

• How many online accounts do you have?

• In defence of ontology

• What is progress in social theory?

• Foucauldian analysis and the mystification of elites

• Griselda Pollock, “Is Feminism a Bad Memory or a Virtual Future?”, Warwick, May 12

• The Faux Underdogs of the Digital Economy

• The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 2)

• Bourdieu meets Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, Beauvoir and Mills (in Burawoy’s imagination)

• The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 1)

• The Semiotics of Academic E-mail Signatures

• Caring in Crisis? Communications and Public Reactions to Humanitarian Crises and International Development Causes

• “I told ’em you will grow to be something tenacious and exalted, you are mighty, you are gracious, you are lauded”

• PhD Workshop: What’s the Point of Ontology?

• Why you should blog and tweet about your research

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An Invitation to DIY Sociology #1

• Women’s Spaces and Feminist Politics: one day conference at QMUL

• The Privacy of Public Sociology

• Cats vs racoons

• Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• AGender: A Conference about Female and Transgender Masculinities

• Social Media in Social Research conference, London

• Man Walks Out Of Question Time Studio Over Immigration Row

• The creepy realisation that I got lured back into facebook

• Improvisation in academic life

• Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

• David Jay on the “head clicky thing” that happens when non-asexuals suddenly understand asexuality

• BSA Seminar ‘Masculinities, Adaptation and Difference’ – deadline extended

• Older Care Home Residents and Sexuality/Intimacy.

• The politics of austerity

• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

• The Phenomenology of Reading and the Rhetoric of Theorists

• The greatest tweet I have ever seen

• Reframing the ‘self’: personal identity, social identity, self-concept and self-presentation

• Stuart Hall BSA Conf Event 24 April

• CfP: Love and Relationships in the Media

• Review of punk sociology

• Allen Ginsberg reading Howl, with music by the Kronos Quartet

• Jack Kerouac on Resonance and Subjectivity

• Disability Conferences: Prostheses and patenting, “crip displacements”, and disability sport

• The Asexuals Project

• Scroobius Pip the storyteller

• Asexuality World Festival 2014

• Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

• Social Theory and Intellectual Translation

• Mobile apps for qualitative research, or, the app that never was

• Is the state shrinking? Yes, even if John Redwood says it isn’t

• Identity, experience and meta-categories in social theory

• The Causal Power of Ideas

• CfP: What are conferences for? The Political economy of academic events

• A cat and a dolphin learn to interact