• 📣 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

• transparency and opacity in digital capitalism

• the gift economy of the digital elite 

• the emergency as a tool of labour discipline 

• the motivational challenge of corporate success in tech

• structure, culture and agency: selected papers of margaret archer

• digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

• the extremely disturbing dreams of mark zuckerberg 

• the turn away from contract labour in the sharing economy 

• the multiple time regimes within facebook

• you are always being ranked and it’s your job to perform 

• the rituals of tech bros 

• the creepy rituals of the facebook office

• mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!

• the centre for social ontology book series

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• still places left for tomorrow: sociological careers outside of academia

• deadline tomorrow! the question of the human in social theory & social research

• social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

• the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

• how many dancing billionaires are there at burning man?

• a perpetual-motion machine that runs on a weird mix of dissatisfaction and eternal hope

• digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

• acronyms seriously suck 

• the hiring rituals of tech companies 

• the performativity of bins

• interview with the founder and ceo of palantir

• the pleasures of intensified work

• does your monograph not deserve a trailer?

• my tips on social media for academics in the times higher

• the paypal mafia

• the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

• the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

• things I’ve been reading recently #14

• one month left : the @ijsrm seminar competition

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• a week left to register: the question of the human in social theory & social research

• an image I can’t get out of my mind

• the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

• the insular world of a technology giant

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

• remembering cinemania: the history of digitalisation 

• german is such a wonderful language 

• a foretaste of the coming uber wars

• the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

• the coding skills bubble

• the dangerous distraction of tech-utopianism

• my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

• algorithmic alienation of aspiring asylum seekers

• big data barbarism

• time use event in oxford

• rejecting the dependence of higher education upon flying