• 📣 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 transformation of bodily normativity

• ‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…’

• It’s tough being a man these days…

• The techno-politics of self in late capitalism (part 2)

• The techno-politics of self in late capitalism

• Academic social media resources

• Reports on Social Media

• Social media training resources produced by researchers at the University of Warwick

• 23 Things for a Digital Professional

• BSA Annual Conference – Pre Conference Postgraduate and Early Career Day

• Social media and internal comms in higher education

• The Blues, Mary

• Manning and Assange

• The Digital University Press

• My Academia 2.0 monograph plan

• Reflections on continuous publishing and academia 2.0

• The most eerily prescient statement about UK politics I have ever come across…

• Meta-Ethnography

• Why I dislike postmodernism/postmodernists…

• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• Marginal Cartographies: Researching Beyond Borders

• BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On

• Round up of tips for PhD students (sociologicalimagination.org)

• Final bit of post-workshop thought processing: a useful metaphor for teaching academics about Twitter

• Some thoughts on getting academic types to use Twitter

• “Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”

• My TEDx talk: late capitalism and a/sexual culture

• BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On

• 2012 Call for Papers about Asexuality

• The cultural significance of asexuality

• The State Lottery

• Sexual Minority Research in the New Millennium

• Social Class and Educational Aspiration

• And I know I’m not the one who is habitually optimistic. But I’m the one who’s got the microphone here so just remember this…

• Marginal Cartographies: Researching Beyond Borders

• Interrogating Sex and Gender Categories: an Asexual Case Study

• And the ‘original’….

• I read some Marx and I liked it…

• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• TEDx Warwick: Home Grown Ideas (with me, @lukerobertmason and others)

• Hip-Hop or Shakespeare? Akala at TEDx

• Master Tasks for Intellectuals

• Nick Crossley on Relational Sociology

• 11 random thoughts on asexuality studies, to be written up properly at a later date…

• Some thoughts on socialization and personhood

• Margaret Archer – Socialization as reflexive engagement

• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• Different uses which PhD students can make of Twitter. If anyone has any they can add to the list, it would be really appreciated!

• There’s more to life than sex? How sexuality is changing and why it matters

• The foundation of relational sociology

• Hey students, are you finding it difficult to manage your money?