• 📣 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 Impact of Social Theory

• Defensive Elites

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Cities and the Political Imagination

• things I’ve been reading recently #32

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Some really interesting theory reading lists

• Digital Methodologies

• Perfecting the work/life blend

• Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

• If uber are acting like this now, how would they act if they had a monopoly?

• Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• The new frontiers of monitoring your students

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The cultural significance of blogging

• To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

• The ambivalent promise of higher education

• A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

• A Domain of One’s Own

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

• The Morphology of Public Engagement

• The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

• The Sociological Review Early Career Researcher Event: Senior Seminar with Rivke Jaffe

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Call for AoIR Tartu panel participants on Algorithmic Agency

• Abundance and austerity 

• The myths of academic life

• The Good Intentions of Engineers

• An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?