• 📣 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 slow university

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• Against slow scholarship

• the magic in giving language to hidden things

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

• Curation as care

• What is platform literacy?

• Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

• When music and fiction mingle

• CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden

• A quick guide to live tweeting

• Fateful moments that might have been

• Looking back through your Twitter history

• Call for abstracts: DQComm2018 The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference

• E-mails outside of office hours

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

• The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

• How do politicians understand their own status?

• A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

• Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group

• things I’ve been reading recently #41

• From homo economicus to homo digitalis

• Who are we if we can’t protect them?

• ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online

• If you’re in or near Cambridge over the next couple of months

• What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

• What does it mean to have a professional identity in an age of social media?

• Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

• Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

• Digital social science as a meta-field

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

• CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

• Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds

• CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies

• The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

• ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

• Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

• things I’ve been reading recently #40

• Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

• The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

• The Sociology of Trolling

• Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

• Are you interested in the political sociology of Corbynism?

• Are you interested in Graphic Social Science?

• Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

• CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018

• Answering social science questions with social media data