• 📣 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

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#17)

• the pleasures of knowing where you stand 

• when people falsely impute research to you

• blogging your fieldwork

• social media and solidarity in higher education

• the coming copyright wars on twitter

• using snapchat in higher education

• how to evaluate your web page for accessibility

• what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

• Closing an open letter

• #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

• oppression and self-promotion on social media

• the creepy treehouse problem

• imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

• the politics of noise in historical perspective

• the antinomies of blairism

• but on the day I die, I’ll say at least I fucking tried, that’s the only eulogy I need

• things I’ve been reading recently #10

• I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.

• the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

• The @_ISRF @DigitalSocSci and @BigDataSoc Essay Competition

• the synchronised society

• the war on radicalisation and where it might lead

• and the evilest of nine’s guaranteed to shoot crooked

• freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking

• memes are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• fitter, happier, more productive

• social engineers have never had so many options at their disposal

• the micro-politics of noise and the challenge of being-with-others

• I should’ve found a way out, so everyone can find a way out

• Relational Flourishing

• Normal service has been resumed: I will never trying closing my personal blog again

• Things I’ve been reading recently #9

• Towards a Digital Social Ontology: Free Day Symposium in London on July 8th

• Are you a PhD student or early career researcher interested in social ontology?

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#16)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #8

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#15)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #7

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Dear England

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to write (#14)

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• An introduction to Design Fiction for Sociologists, May 13th at Goldsmiths

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline TOMORROW)

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline TOMORROW!)

• Conlon Nancarrow

• Consultancy

• Using social media to destroy academic jargon

• How to live tweet effectively at academic conferences