• 📣 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

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

• ‘Slow walking’ as a post-democratic tactic

• An Introduction to Asexuality by the BBC

• CfP: Autobiography 2.0?

• Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

• Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

• George Veletsianos on Networked Scholars

• The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

• A pleasing pile of books 

• Out Now: Social Media for Academics

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing #23

• Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

• Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

• The Accleration of Political Rhetoric

• The LSE’s remarkable archive of public talks

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• Ontographology Cards: Oblique Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teams (sort of)

• The Politics of the Platform Society

• New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others

• CfP: Ethics as Methods in the Era of Big Data

• CfP: Future Making

• Why Digitalization is Prior to Financialization

• Henry Rollins on the pleasures of acceleration

• The Politics of an Uncertain Future

• Writing praxes beyond papers and books

• Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy

• YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

• stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

• defensive elites and the actions they’re willing to take

• Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

• Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

• The first year of the Accelerated Academy project

• Early Career Researcher Event @TheSocReview: A Master-Class with Professor Éric Fassin

• The Reactionary Politics of Tech Bros

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• Social Media and Social Futures

• “Let Me Stay”: Exhibition on Housing Insecurity in Manchester

• The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

• The Promise of the Pivot Format

• Protest and Performance Week @WarwickUni

• On Subculture

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

• The Feral Interdisciplinarian

• There are no strings on me

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• CfP: Data Friction

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication