• 📣 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 Philosophy of Data Science

• Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

• The International Origins of Social and Political Theory

• Non-conventional academic career paths

• Is the murky world of internet marketing making me paranoid?

• How connected is your university to the arms trade?

• The Potential of Video Essays for Scholarly Communication

• Legally navigating academic blogging and social media – next Wednesday

• Two UCU member sacked for allegedly leaking information about the V-C to the press

• The Responsibilities of Academics

• The Future’s Not What it Used To Be

• Data Big and Small: Past, Present and Future

• Who are you to wave your finger?

• The challenges to creativity in higher education

• Register in the next week if you want to ensure a place – Workshop @SocioWarwick: Investigating the Internal Conversation

• “so I only stop to tell her that I love her at the red lights”

• Algorithmic Blacklisting: Big Data & Industrial Conflict

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Conferences

• Call for Papers: Doing Time in the Sociology of Education

• The limitations of academic talk

• Thatcher Fucked The Kids

• Distracted People and Fragile Movements: a relational realist theory of social movement in a digital age

• No to outsourcing of academic staff! Public meeting by @warwickucu on Wednesday

• Call for Papers – Scold’s to Trolls; Social and Legal Responses to Visible and Audible Women

• CFP – Global Cultures of Contestation

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st!)

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

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference (deadline May 1st!)

• The Avoidance of the Intellectual

• Sociological questions about the coming era of data-driven privatised policing

• Why you should @readcube to manage your library of papers

• David Cameron Serenaded By Ukulele Player Singing ‘F**k Off Back To Eton’

• Social Science Funding in the US potentially on the verge of being cut in half

• “all the things I believed with all my heart when I was young are just coasters for beers & clean surfaces for drugs”

• The Two Tier Future of Employment in UK Higher Education

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Civility

• Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

• I like the #CatManifesto

• The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Idea

• CfP: Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism

• President of Imperial College London: “Professors are really like small business owners”

• The Surprisingly Rapid Destruction of the Professions

• Loner

• The Writing Routine of Richard Sennett

• The overarching questions which interest me

• Constructing a sociological career in the accelerated academy

• “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

• Kitten Mittens

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• A new resource for teaching social theory

• An initial attempt to critique co-evolutionary approaches to understanding the socio-technical

• Reflexivity and the Social Production of Distraction