• 📣 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

• CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

• ‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research

• The value of graphic social science

• Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

• A call for sociological micro-fiction!

• CfP: Understanding the political economy of digital technology

• The epistemic privilege of platforms

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

• The changing character of the academic game

• The dynamics of discipline formation

• When sociologists meet organised politics

• Answering social science questions with social media data, March 8th in London

• What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

• One of my favourite closing scenes to a film

• TOD Talks: The Future of Science Communication

• The new old division at the heart of politics

• The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

• Answering social science questions with social media data

• Social listening and the black health economy

• On intellectual craft 

• things I’ve been reading recently #39

• The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

• The dangerous fantasies of defensive elites

• Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

• The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

• Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

• Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

• Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

• 10 reasons you should publish on Medium

• Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

• CFP EASST2018: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”

• Workshop: The Turn To AI in Content Moderation and Communication Governance

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

• CfP: Articulating Voice

• Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation18

• Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

• Using social media as a social theorist

• On the Rat Race

• The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

• The material interests of Big Tech

• Proposal for a Concept Lab

• Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

• Social media and the impact agenda

• CfP: Accelerated Academy

• CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

• Towards Common Process Understanding in Collective Welfare

• What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

• The missing history of the practical intellectuals

• The global fourth estate

• Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster