• 📣 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 question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• What is Graphic Social Science?

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• things I’ve been reading recently #35

• The dark future of mediatization

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The precursors to curation

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• On the Spiralists

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• CfP – “Youtubers” Conference – deadline June 15

• CfP: ‘Social Research in a Sceptical Age’

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• Call for Participants: The Practice of Social Theory

• Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

• The Political Economy of Student Housing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• #SocMedHE17: Making an impact

• Do you want your research to produce more impact?

• Help us forge UK applied sociology

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Time-packing and space-packing

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The causal powers of media

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• Social Media and the Impact Agenda: making an impact with your research 

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?