• 📣 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 coming UK culture wars?

• Some quick thoughts on the sociology of craft

• The search for the ‘perfect’ situation

• Inside the Mind of the Republican Party

• Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson and the norms of public intellectualism in a digital age

• CfP: Discover Society

• The Practice of Abstraction

• LGBT Youth Suicicde Prevention – researcher post

• Why Things Matter to People

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

• Dear England

• Discover Society

• Seminar Series on the History of Sexuality

• Striving for deep work when the situation demands shallow work

• Why Sociologists and Technologists Should Talk

• The virtues of a daily writing habit

• Blogging as Public Sociology

• If America has a communist President then perhaps Britain could have a socialist Prime Minister?

• BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society – Call for papers

• Money, Power and Opportunity in the Late Modern City, or, isn’t it a shame J G Ballard isn’t around to see this?

• Narrowly escaping the academic life

• The Retreat from Being and Flight into Having

• Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

• “Now fucking pay me” – One of my all time favourite film scenes

• Activists fight for right to the city – Britons, Africans unite in urban struggles

• Confused as to why the US government has been shut down? Let Mr Burns explain

• Invited speaker booed, threatened and led off stage for anti-war views

• “When I first read Foucault’s account of the panopticon. I thought it was brilliant but overheated. Now, it actually seems like somebody’s plan”

• Why Is America in Decline?

• Would Benjamin have dismissed Žižek as a hack?

• Want to take part in an interesting art project this Sunday?

• Is anyone else weirdly fascinated by this sort of spam?

• CfP: Discover Society

• BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society

• Space, place, democracy and digital at DPR 2014

• Save the #NHS and join the march and rally on 29 September!

• The Incredible Disappearing Agent

• CfP: Theory Stream for BSA Annual Conference 2014

• Beyond ‘Fateful Moments’ and ‘Turning Points’: Conceptualizing Biographical Events and Their Relationship To Social Change

• The Weirdly Humanistic Anti-Humanism of Richard Rorty

• Brian Fallon and Bruce Springsteen – a love affair in three parts

• “I’m a cyborg? I thought I was just wearing glasses”: technology, agency and ontology

• The Quantified Self Research Network (QS, Self-Tracking and Wearable Computing)

• Some critical thoughts on psychosocial research

• Asexuality as a Spectrum: A National Probability Sample Comparison to the Sexual Community in the UK

• Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of literary and artistic value

• Biography, Path-Dependence and Social Events

• An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology? Some initial thoughts

• Does Žižek take himself as seriously as other people do? Idolatry, activism and the academic left

• The Sociology of Daydreaming

• Les Back on Digital Sociology

• Helene Snee on Digital Sociology