• 📣 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

• CfP: 2016 Learning with MOOCs Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania

• Using Social Media to Manage Information

• CfP: Persistent Conversation

• The Growth of Political Consultancy

• The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

• How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

• Tweets about Social Media for Academics

• Slack and Basecamp for Academics

• Patience for the epigrammatic, but brief

• Aaron Swartz on digital business models

• What would a socialist version of Netflix look like?

• The Difference Between Stealing and Copying

• Call for papers: the politics of identity 

• #BritSoc16 fringe event: ‘Radical Education Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University’

• On Redundancy 

• Digital Data, Epistemic Gain and Epistemic Loss: we need to stop seeing digitalisation in epochal terms

• Self-pimping as the prevailing social and business imperative

• Social Media for Journal Editors

• The End of You Too

• An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

• A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

• Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!

• The Defensiveness of Elites

• Relational Traces

• The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

• How depoliticisation and political polarisation co-exist in American politics 

• A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

• RoboPresident: Politics in an Algorithmic World

• There are many ways to keep a digital research journal other than blogging

• Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

• The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

• The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

• The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

• Early Career Researcher Event: Sociological Review Writing Retreat

• Data science meets social sciences: Understanding origins, means and consequences of social computing

• Data, Society and the Self: Digital Sociology in Theory and Practice

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• things that I’ve been reading recently #20

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• The performative pressures posed by presidency 

• Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

• What are ‘working papers’ for when we have social media?

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Why Digital Sociology Will Always Be Public Sociology and Vice Versa

• Cognitive triage in politics

• Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

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