• 📣 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

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• I’ve never had a contract with @VirginMedia, yet they’re sending me details of my ‘spending’

• Calling PhDs & ECRs: @thesocreview conference funding competition is now open!

• things I’ve been reading recently #17

• the most read posts on my blog in 2015

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

• digital capitalism and digital social science

• digital data and ‘the utopia of total social legibility’

• institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

• ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

• what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

• the problem of ‘community’

• is Twitter making the Internet local again?

• the geopolitics of phone sex

• CfP: Mediated Intimacies

• CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

• CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

• CfP: The Power of Presence – Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#22)

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#21)

• “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

• Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

• Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

• #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

• Social Science as Communication

• smart phones and work place repression

• the deroutinisation of work

• CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now

• Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

• CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#20)

• 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique

• the new frontier of computational politics

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the riddle of society 

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

• the need for digital social ontology 

• some thoughts on responsibility

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems

• Silicon Valley: The Invisible Trap. Evgeny Morozov on How to beat bureaucracy

• some thoughts about the accelerated academy

• technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

• What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

• six ways till sunday

• Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

• the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

• research as a mode of resistance