• 📣 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

• Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• I lied about being the outdoor type

• The Invention of Lifestyle

• What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

• “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

• Omnifocus for Academics

• What does public sociology mean in an age of social media?

• A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

• Strategic distraction as a tool of political control on the Chinese internet

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• How do Americans define the sharing economy?

• Fame and the content eco-system

• The Blizzard of Photography

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur

• ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

• Funding third-party lawsuits as a tool of defensive elites

• Against lists of academic publications

• The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

• Sociology and Fiction: a @thesocreview Special Feature

• A special @thesocreview feature on the rise of the Superstar Professor

• Come to our workshop at Social Media & Society: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• Deleuzian populism

• The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

• The threat of pseudo-activity

• Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell

• WordPress owns the Internet

• Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

• The Thesis Whisperer: Starting an Academic Blog

• Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• Super-ego individualization

• Debt as an instrument of post-democratic control

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The paradox of personalisation 

• Freeing those who govern from the constraints of democracy

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

• Call for papers: everyday analysis 

• The Scale of Data Brokerage

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Escaping the digital cage

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data