• 📣 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

• Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

• Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

• Trump as a tactician of post-truth

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

• CfP: Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies

• Against university marketing

• Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

• CfP: What is universe? Communication, complexity, coherence

• The digital academic as autobiographical actor

• A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

• In defence of the individual

• Helen Margetts: How social media (and other platforms) can promote equality in 2027

• The (slow) private life of homo academicus

• Google’s next billion users

• The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

• Call for speakers: Answering social science questions with social media data

• Craft and exploitation in the digital university

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• Things I learned from trying and failing at #NaNoWriMo

• The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

• Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

• CFP: Alternative Social Media special issue of Social Media + Society

• The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

• There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

• CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)

• The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

• The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

• Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

• Call for Papers: Journalism in the Age of Partisan Politics, Political Protests, and President Trump

• How to trash the political rulebook

• Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

• The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

• How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

• things I’ve been reading recently #38

• CfP: Co-design Special Issue – Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring

• Call for Papers: “Research Synthesis” and “Big Data in Psychology”

• The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

• The coming big data revolution within higher education

• Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

• Vested interests in ‘openness’

• An interview with Stand Up magazine about social media and fragile politics

• Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

• The screams of ‘post-truth’: the rise and fall of the political commentator

• CfP: The Social Lives of Digital Methods

• An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

• The Mediatization of Time

• Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair

• The acceleration of social theory

• The new new left meets the old new left

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

• Ubiquitous drone surveillance