• 📣 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

• Things I’ve been reading recently #5

• The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology, July 8th in London

• Call for Participation: Digital Methods Summer School 2015

• Call for papers: Doing Justice to Figures

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 3

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

• The Social Ontology of L.S. Lowry

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 1

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#13)

• A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behavior

• If this works reliably then I want one now

• Why I can’t take Osborne or Cameron seriously when they promise to ‘wage war’ on tax evasion & avoidance

• From the quantified self to the quantified dog

• A case study in the contrivances of marketing: The @NPowerHQ Price Promise

• Heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest

• 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

• Who is this describing?

• Towards a Sociology of the Good Life

• You must change your life!

• Call for papers: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life

• Things I’ve been reading recently #4

• Five important works of realist social theory being published in 2015

• Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference

• Richard Hall – Against Educational Technology in the Neoliberal University

• This is how it works

• Using fiction to write about your research

• Using social media to improve the student experience: creating a departmental back channel for undergraduates

• An unusual e-mail

• Opening up @soc_imagination as a platform for public engagement

• 16 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• Cruel optimism in #highered

• From passion to profit: exploitation under neoliberalism, or, how seriously should we take latte art?

• Are academics very well-educated journalists who write badly but will work for free?

• Things I’ve been reading recently #3

• Routines and Reflexivity – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

• The businessman and the fisherman

• Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing #12

• This looks great: ‘Weber/Simmel antagonisms’ conference

• CfP: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life, 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague

• Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

• Academia and Identity – When Research meets Activism

• Call for an Internet Social Forum

• Inner resources:  the roles of reflexivity, self-awareness and emotional responses in the work of the academic researcher.

• Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

• Selling psychopathy in late modernity

• Routines and Reflexivity – March 10th @SocioWarwick

• How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

• The sociological imagination of Ava DuVernay

• Can relational reflexivity be fractured? (cc @weaver_beth)