• 📣 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

• bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

• critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

• the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

• from governing the body to governing the mind

• self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

• judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• human centred data science

• animals being amazed by magic tricks

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• The Lives and Deaths of Data

• buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

• the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

• soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

• the opaque subject and the elusive activity

• how much time do workers spend worrying?

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

• the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

• the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

• CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication 

• CFP: Machine Communication

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

• against ‘hybrid beings’ as a way of understanding our entanglement with digital tech 

• why would anyone use Hootsuite rather than Buffer?

• Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption

• towards a sociology of human flourishing

• Charles Babbage’s precursor to Mechanical Turk 

• the recursive loop of technological metaphors for subjectivity

• the early music of brian fallon

• AoIR 2016: Call for Proposals (anyone interested in proposing a #digitalsociology session?)

• putting together an AoIR panel on Instagram

• CfP: Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

• The Challenge of Sociological Writing w/ @AcademicDiary, @thesiswhisperer & @ThomsonPat

• Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

• mapping the post-capitalist paradigm and its thinkers

• Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting

• Call for CSCW Workshop participants: Designing online experiments

• CfP: Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures

• perspectives on the non-use of technology

• Social Media Data for Social Research

• follow #fastuni for live tweeting from the accelerated academy

• CfP: Radicalization and Media Logic: Surveillances and Self-Mediatization in Social Media and Politics

• 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media

• defending human rights in a digital age

• In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Scicence Hub

• Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges

• Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity

• Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

• the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk