• 📣 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

• Are you studying the internal conversation? Get in touch soon for a free workshop

• Do we need to reorientate Sociological thought? Or are perpetual calls to do this part of the problem?

• The Future of Data Science

• How will social media transform #highered?

• The Politics of Time and the Possibility of Democracy

• The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain

• “What do you do?”

• The Temporal Constraints of Consumption

• The chronopolitics of consumer anxiety

• Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

• The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Re-orienting Sociological Thought: May 11th at @CardiffSOCSI

• The Fracturing of Free Time

• I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead

• all the world is green

• Against the ‘slow professor’

• The intensification of work and the death of imagination

• Reducing structural problems to lifestyle issues 

• Historicizing the Digital: language practices in new and old media

• The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

• Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

• Sociology and fiction: a round up of the @thesocreview project so far

• Why do you find social media useful as an academic?

• Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

• The Ambivilance of the Abject

• ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

• Declining political literacy as a vector of post-democratisation

• The Materiality of the Digital

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• Crafting an online identity

• So what is ‘networking’?

• Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

• The Fictional Conference

• Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology @SocioWarwick

• The Absent Horizon of Mortality

• Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

• Mood – Aesthetic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

• Academic Social Media in the Research Economy

• Why digitalisation gives rise to ‘memory wars’

• Isomorphic Inequalities

• Uber’s managed labor force

• Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

• The new cheapest place to order Social Media for Academics online

• Would you like to recommend Social Media for Academics to your library?

• What people who ordered Social Media for Academics also bought

• Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

• Like air, ideas are incapable of being locked up and hoarded

• Rich nations as entropy hubs