• 📣 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 alliance between the billionaires and the thought leaders

• The birth of machinology

• When political theory restages the ‘Corbynism is a cult’ trope

• What is digital literacy and how do you teach it?

• Academics like the idea of Twitter in the classroom but what do students think?

• The cultural entrepreneurs behind your favourite thought leaders 

• Technology and the billionaire class

• Why education and technology is full of bullshit

• Who would be against the people?

• Social media and education… now the dust has settled

• The dark possibilities incipient with Universal Basic Income

• Collectivising public sociology

• Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?

• The performance of critique and why it frustrates me 

• The political adulthood of the Occupy generation

• You can’t have your ‘facts’ back

• The consequences of our expectations

• The concept of ‘mobile literacy’

• The sociology of expectations (and platform imaginaries)

• A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

• Taking back control: what happens when people realise they were lied to?

• Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

• Externalisation as defence mechanism

• The components of digital literacy

• Lateral vs vertical evaluation of sources

• Corbynism without Corbyn

• The Kardashian index: social media and academic celebrity

• When the venture capitalists tried to get to Edward Snowden

• And who are you supposed to be?

• Optimism as a political factor in Brexit Britain

• How education imagines the future

• Austerity politics as reactionary populism

• Beyond the myth of the ‘cyberkid’

• It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

• The Great Disruptive Project

• Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

• Do you have an idea for a sociological walk?

• The moral theories of platform engineers

• CfP: Planetary Magic – Elemental Engagements with (Chinese) Digital Infrastructures in an Age of Loss

• So you were born, and that was a good day

• CfP: Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

• Farewell @thesocreview, it has been a wonderful five years 👋😢

• CfP: What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?

• Digital literacy as individual and collective empowerment

• What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines

• The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing

• Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

• The epistemological conservatism of the accelerated academy

• Organisational sociology and algorithms

• A cybernetics of distraction?

• Programming as Social Science: a case study of @pdbrooker’s surprisingly militant bots

• Driving robots mad