• 📣 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

• For a whole range of reasons, I’m finding social media extremely tiresome at the moment. Hence I’ll just be here on my blog for the foreseeable future.

• The Cambridge approach to social ontology

• Sociology and anarchism

• The promise of university bureaucracy: academic neoliberalism as project rather than outcome

• CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

• How Should STS Address Inequality? As a Subject, a (Dis)Value)? Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

• The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

• Capturing the classroom: the Google Agenda

• Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

• Are you interested in sociological fiction?

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• How does one become a competitive Rubiks cube player?

• A few questions about Marvel’s Secret Wars

• Are you interested in blogging about social science methodology?

• Why doesn’t technocrat have an antonym?

• Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley

• What happens when you meet a troll?

• The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

• The media must take responsibility for recent far right attacks on left wing journalists

• Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

• Call for Papers: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work

• The intellectual legacy of Charles Taylor: securing the vantage point of (historical) philosophical anthropology

• When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

• Social volatility and the shrinking time horizons of political life: the case of the Remain campaign’s war book

• 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