• 📣 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

• My 20 favourite graphic novels of 2016

• My 20 favourite books of 2016

• The proliferation of books

• things I’ve been reading recently #30

• Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

• Carrying the weight of the world

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

• A collection of definitions of ‘Impact’

• The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

• Bounded autonomy in the workplace

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• Next week in Oxford: Digital Sociology v STS

• Communism for the few

• Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

• The Climate Agenda of Elites

• Living with theoretical pluralism

• The Political Economy of the American South

• This week: the second Accelerated Academy

• Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

• Five propositions about #publicsociology

• What is ‘the literature’?

• The lineaments of techno-fascism

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• Social Media and Public Sociology

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

• No longer praying at the altar of virality

• A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

• Chronosolidarity

• A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

• The Practice of Public Sociology: Sociological Review Early Career Event

• Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

• Out Now: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

• A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

• Striving for a ‘rigorous’ politics

• The affinity between enlightened technocrats and digital elites

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

• Broken Fingers

• things I’ve been reading recently #29

• Digital Sociology vs STS

• The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

• The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

• Four year post doc in #digitalsociology

• Towards a Pirate Sociology

• When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

• Perfect Government

• The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation