• 📣 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

• Blogging and the 1%-9%-90% rule

• Why Medium might be pretty great for academics

• The uk economy can no longer create enough jobs that pay well enough to keep people off benefits

• CfP: Death Online Research Symposium

• Vipassana

• Sexuality Summer School 26 – 30 May: Queer Anatomies

• I am this rat. You are this rat. We are all this rat.

• CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

• CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• Print is predictable and impersonal

• Heidegger on Thinking 1.4

• Autism and Intense World Syndrome

• 2 Research Fellow positions at the University of Sussex with fieldwork in Greece and India

• Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now?

• CfP: Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters

• Being dragged onto Wikipedia against your will

• CfP: Sociologies of Everyday Life

• CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th @SocioWarwick

• CfP: An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology

• Gender, Reflexivity and Friendship

• Unification and Fragmentation

• Fragmentation in Sociology

• Beatboxing Buskers in Birmingham

• Call for Papers on Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism

• The Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (REPS) PhD Network

• Reading the Fifty Shades phenomenon; free access till March

• SIID Postgraduate Conference March 2014 Call for Papers

• Perverse Incentives in Scholarly Publishing

• Bullets and batons in the US and Ukraine

• Finding Common Ground? Research Ethics across the Social Sciences: Conference and Workshops

• Digital Sociology at #BritSoc14

• Guest Post: #DigitalSociology down under

• Conference on Childhood Studies: Values of Childhood and Childhood Studies

• Final Reminder: Tomorrow (Tues 10 Dec), ‘Porn Roundtable’, Manchester Uni

• 1,000 months in which you can read 4,000 books

• Help needed: the institutional recognition of #asexuality

• The Sociology of Awkwardness

• CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• Boris Johnson and the End of History

• Enhancing the learner experience in HE

• CfP: An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology

• Nikolas Rose: What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions

• Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: Reflections, Repercussions and Reverberations

• The academic ethics of strikebreaking

• Launch of ‘SexGen Northern Network’

• The Politics of Impact and Social Media

• The lack of space for engaging positively with the impact agenda

• There are no Digital Humanities

• Heidegger on Thinking 1.3

• Anti-Manifesto