• 📣 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

• the acceleration of viruses and malware 

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! TOMORROW at 11am

• an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

• Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self

• Call for papers: digital gaming (cc @TGJBrock)

• Call for Papers: The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu

• an introduction to social ontology

• neil gaiman’s 8 rules of writing

• what makes human beings distinctive amongst animals?

• new songs from brian fallon’s impending solo album

• research blogs as monuments to treating ideas seriously

• are you conducting research on reflexivity?

• a question about cultural globalisation

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• things I’ve been reading recently #16

• the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

• social psychological approaches to understanding why people are blasé about data security

• voluntarily disclosed personal information online and susceptibility to manipulation 

• why dehumanisation matters 

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

• reflections on six years spent studying asexuality 

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing 

• why are we not boycotting academia.edu?

• “world of warcraft is the new golf”

• what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

• digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

• social media and social science research ethics

• the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

• techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

• social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods

• images of the human in digital social science

• “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

• got an idea for a monograph? submit to @thesocreview monograph call

• places available: the challenge of sociological writing

• call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

• follow @accelerateduni for accelerated academy updates

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

• Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

• call for proposals: @thesocreview seminar competition

• the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

• the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors