• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• I hate to think I’ll make it to 70, potentially 75, and realise I’ve never been alive

• Call for Papers: Lies, Bullshit and Fake News Online: Should We Be Worried?

• Critical Pedagogy HE Teaching Practice (CPHETP) Lab

• Reclaiming the social from the platforms that are eviscerating it

• The social ontology of algorithms and the importance of ethnographic technique

• What does it mean to talk about work as dehumanising? A critical realist perspective

• Margaret Archer: The Catholic Church as a Social Movement

• An introduction to Emmanuel Lazega’s neo-structuralism

• Data Power 2019: anyone interested in putting together a digital universities panel?

• ‘Free speech’ as the unifying principle of a resurgent right

• Analogue and digital chronopower: the example of Trump university

• Overcoming the micro/macro divide

• Digital labour in the university: understanding the transformations of academic work in the UK

• The mundane reality of neo-fascism

• Cambridge as a platform city

• 🐈 The Skiathos Cats 🐈

• I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies

• What the fuck!? The great question of our age

• A few videos on quantum computing and the physics of time I want to come back to later

• The social ontology of trans-human life

• Against spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu from Matthew Desmond and what it means for public sociology

• Look at me now 

• Programming as practice

• Sally Rooney on Theory Anxiety

• Cultural studies of data mining

• Liberalism and neoliberalism in communications research

• The Flat Earth phenomenon and what it reveals about YouTube

• Beyond fast and slow: temporal ontology in critical higher education scholarship

• Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

• a machine that’ll speak for me

• Debates about the nature of education

• The origins of the micro/macro divide

• The social origins of educational systems 

• the school in the sky, the school between the cracks

• Nigel Farage the YouTube star 

• Masterclass: An Introduction to Machine Learning

• A really interesting cfp on media and time

• The Corporate Fortresses of Digital Capitalism

• Where is the agency which will reign in big tech?

• Who’s a Bully? Civility, Authoritarianism, and Power in the Contemporary Academy

• Thinking with your feet 

• Trying to exist in superposition

• CfP: Digital Resistance

• From gated communities to moated communities

• Off shore capital and the great inflation

• What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

• The Sociology of Escalation Effects

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

• Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

• Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

• The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age