• 📣 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

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Breathe for me: interesting performance event in collaboration with @sociowarwick

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

• The multiplication of communication channels

• Every time you open an account online, the filter bubble expands 

• Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

• A podcast about Social Media for Academics

• the challenge of cultural abundance

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• The Temporal Cost of the Commute

• 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

• Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Creating an ‘idea index’

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• #YesWeCode Initiative

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The foundational lie of digital capitalism

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• ‘Economic Science Fictions’ – call for essays

• things I’ve been reading recently #21

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”

• Rant-driven journalism 

• The emergence of the ‘informal advisor’ in Washington politics 

• Post-democracy’s no-nonsense purveyors of hard political truths

• Children’s and Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• Pace Science: Data, Acceleration, Duration (cc @filvos)

• A symposium on the digital subject

• Help support @DiscoverSoc

• The value of university managed online spaces

• How to use social media for academic purposes

• Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

• BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

• The Dual-Edged Character of Digital Freedom

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The entrepreneurial journalist

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• Death Online Research: Last minute CFA 

• Steve Fuller on information overload

• Are you coming to @thesocreview’s Annual Lecture?

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach