• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Academic freedom in the neoliberal university

• The Pseudo-Psychology of Asexuality

• Do you hate e-mail? I do. Can’t universities think of smarter ways to communicate internally?

• The University Project

• Andrew Hinderliter at “Spotlight on Asexuality”

• What sort of thing is asexuality?

• The Difficulty of Working Out Who You Are: Sexual Categories, Sexual Culture and Asexuality

• The Comics I’m selling (only posting this on the blog because I needed something online that I could link to in ads)

• The Third Industrial Revolution?

• The myth of academic autonomy

• Self-pathologisation and e-mail

• The punishing intensification of work within academia…

• Precarity in academic life

• Networking online for researchers

• Words cannot do justice to quite how much I want this iPad case…

• John Rex on the Politics of Social Research

• Olivier Cormier-Otaño at “Spotlight on Asexuality”

• The Dark Age of Macroeconomics

• Paul Krugman on the failings of the economics profession

• Wikipedia and Social Science 2.0

• Participant Observation

• Reflexivity and CBT

• Using an ePortfolio

• Managing Online Identity

• This is also really cool…

• A year ago I would have thought this was really silly…

• Bill Gates vs Cassette Boy

• How we could do academic publishing differently…

• iPhone 5???

• The chutzpah is pretty breath-taking…

• Want to deconstruct heteronormative paradigms and cultivate a transformative and emancipatory radical intellectual praxis…?

• My response to Tom “sue the oppressive LSE feminazis” Martin

• Shrill neoliberal ideologue begins lecturing about the moral virtues of declining prosperity – a sign of things to come?

• Blogging for Researchers

• C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On


• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination

• The Secret Club at the Heart of Politics?

• Could you imagine this on UK TV?

• How do our brothers and sisters shape who we are?

• The all-powerful conspiracy which hides the fact that men are oppressed by women. Or not…

• Serco Group – “the biggest company you’ve never heard of”

• UK Riots: Sociological Perspectives and Civic Responses

• My PhD in 60 seconds (video to follow soon!)

• Becoming Who We Are

• Missed Opportunities

• What’s the point of edited books? A step-by-step proposal for social media alternative

• Asexual Practices and Identities: Negotiating the Sexual Imperative

• BSA Annual Conference 2012: Sociology in an Age of Austerity

• Stuck between modernity and postmodernity? The modern history of Coventry

• The Blurring Boundaries Between CIA and NYPD – Modernization and Liberty

• The concept of ‘prestige’ in the emerging 21st century communicative ecology

• There was an old woman…