• 📣 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

• CelebYouth on Blogging

• Mark Murphy on Blogging

• Ben Baumberg on Blogging

• Evelyn Ruppert on Digital Sociology

• Noortje Marres on Digital Sociology

• Queer Now and Then seminar series, University of Manchester

• Critical Realism and American Sociology

• What the other social sciences can learn from economics

• Quantified Self Research Network – Inaugural Event

• Being Human, Personal Identity and Biography

• Proposal: Digital Scholarship Reading Group @WarwickUni

• Asexuality, Identity and ‘Scratching an Itch’

• The Strange World of Educational Viral Marketing (part 2)

• Cluster hire in Transgender Studies at the University of Arizona

• Relationality, Reflexivity and Power

• Being Human and Second-Order Emotions

• The paradox of Brutalism

• Becoming Who We Are: Social Relations and Personal Morphogenesis

• Manufacturing Consent in an Age of Austerity: Bashar al-Assad the “naughty child”

• ‘Theory’ is what happens when common starting-points can no longer be taken for granted

• The disturbing experience of finding yourself emphatically agreeing with Peter Hitchens

• Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

• Spring Breakers, Late Capitalism and Nihilism

• Being Human and What Matters To Us

• Why academic podcasts are much more valuable than people realise

• Not scheduling my academic life at all – reply to @raulpacheco

• “For the women of the world, kill terrorists”

• Austerity Chic and Class Politics

• CfP: Hard Times – Austerity and Popular Culture

• Normativity, Social Science and Secularism: Reply to @rightscholar

• 17 reasons why you should blog about your research

• The strange passions of ex-leftists

• EduWiki Conference 2013 – Call for proposals

• Being Human and Transvaluation (part 1)

• The books I’m currently reading (#1)

• What’s the point of ontology? Outline of an approach to the sociology of social theory

• “Oh ‘INTP’. So that’s what I am”: Identity and Alterity in a Digital Age

• Being Human, Emotionality and Everyday Life

• The Last Outing project

• Youth Researcher Development Workshop

• Being Human and Social Normativity

• Floating Cities, Class War and Matt Damon: what more could you want?

• ‘Negative Solidarity’ and the Cameroon Concept of Fairness

• Being Human: Natural, practical and social affectivity

• Conceptualising biographical events

• BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

• “What was Visual Sociology?”: specialisation and fragmentation within disciplines

• Emotions as commentaries on human concerns

• Being Stuck Between Public Sociology and Public Engagement

• Human Beings, Social Agents and Social Actors

• Researching Affect and Psychosocial Studies

• CFP Beyond Binaries: Exploring the Psychosocial (A Postgraduate Conference at the University of East London, UK)