• 📣 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 Rise of the Self-Funded Studentship and What It Says About Academia (and Academics)

• Theory Stream Plenary at the BSA Annual Conference

• Transformative Practice and Theory: Where We Stand Today

• Podcast: Andrew Sayer on Why Things Matter To People

• Reframing Margaret Archer’s critique of habitus

• Who could object to a project that seeks to stop killer robots?

• University tuition fees in England are now, on average, the highest in the world

• Workshop: Investigating the Internal Conversation

• Big Data & Society – Early Career Researcher Forum

• Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

• Cognitive Triage and Television

• The Strange Transformation of Gideon Osborne

• The reality of the ‘rapper sword dance’ does not match the image the phrase conveyed in my mind

• The place of sociology in the Second Machine Age

• That time we went on a pub crawl with Karl Marx

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

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

• Videocast of the Algorithms and Accountability conference (cc @DALupton @SusanJHalford)

• Things I’ve been reading recently #6

• “I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded”

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

• When shopping is a baffling ordeal

• Dear academic hive mind, please help me identify radical education projects in the UK

• Relational Realism, Collective Reflexivity and Social Movements

• The pathetic triviality of the discourse on ‘campus censorship’

• The surprisingly vitriolic misogyny of James Bond

• Call for Papers ECREA Symposium Political Agency in the Digital Age

• What would British fascism look like?

• “I had it all figured out then it washed away”

• Outline of a relational realist theory of anarchism

• The dead zones of the imagination in higher education

• Straight with a twist”: reflections on heterosexuality beyond the heteronormal

• (Re)situating Queer Theory on the Critical Left

• The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism

• Academic entrepreneurship and white privilege

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• Is it just managers who are heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest?

• How obsessive auditing produces “a profession which is incompatible with a normal life”

• CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

• IFTTT just raised their game

• The drip-by-drip erosion of our liberties in an age of austerity

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life (deadline May 1st! All 5 keynotes now confirmed)

• Call for papers: Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

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

• Help: need to escape from intractably useless web host

• Overcoming your modernist training for constant improvement, advancement, development and accumulation

• Some brief thoughts about digital social ontology

• Brian Fallon covering Oasis

• The Emperor’s New Clothes

• Creativity as Apophatic

• What will micro-publishing look like in higher education?

• Stewart Lee on Twitter