• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

• Call for Blog Posts: the Rise of the Superstar Professor

• the demand for data science

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• research as a mode of resistance 

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• the perverse statism of those seeking to create a market in higher education

• the chronopolitics of commitment in higher education

• the restructuring of the humanities

• the coding skills bubble

• rejecting the dependence of higher education upon flying 

• interrogating internships: unpaid work, creative industries, and higher education

• The fiction future of faculty: September 16th in Manchester

• The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• social media and academic freedom

• the question no one seems willing to answer about university branding

• using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

• social media and solidarity in higher education

• using snapchat in higher education

• what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

• the creepy treehouse problem

• How connected is your university to the arms trade?

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

• The challenges to creativity in higher education

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Conferences

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

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

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

• The Two Tier Future of Employment in UK Higher Education

• The Chronopolitics of Academic Civility

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

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

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

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

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

• The dead zones of the imagination in higher education

• 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”

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

• Richard Hall – Against Educational Technology in the Neoliberal University

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

• Cruel optimism in #highered

• Academia and Identity – When Research meets Activism

• Interesting research project worth supporting: Social Media in the First-Year Experience

• Misdirection as technique of governance, or, “it’s student activists attacking freedom of speech, not the state!”

• Higher Education and The Temporal Conditions for Critique

• Some things about the acceleration of higher education which I would like to understand more than I do

• ‘Rank and Yank’ in Higher Education

• How to get started on a sociology essay

• Queerly Theorising Higher Education & Academia: Symposium Registration

• There is an undergraduate module on the Sociology of Thinking!

• CfP: Ethics and Education Research

• Help support contingent faculty in women’s & gender studies

• Shaking up the social sciences and the acceleration of higher education

• Is American higher education as horrible as ‘advice’ posts make it sound?

• Learning to say ‘no’ in #highered

• Research ‘Ignite’ CFP – Being Human in a Digital Age

• Help: different approaches to managing departmental twitter feeds

• The politics of ‘brand protection’ in #highered

• 10 ways to promote your university that don’t involve viral videos

• The future of #highered? Zero hours lecturers in “an enterprising and innovative community”

• The regulation of academic social media use

• Metrics in international #highered

• Metrics and Measurement in #HigherEd

• A BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Are Elite Universities Meritocratic?

• University complaints by students top 20,000

• The Impact Agenda and the Good (Academic) Life

• Warwick University Ltd Conference (not this Friday but soon)

• Unintentionally hilarious university recruitment videos

• Queering Higher Education Panel at SRHE Conference 2014: Call for Panel Presenters

• Governing Academic Life – conference marking 30yrs since Foucault’s death

• Warwick Oral History Network Seminar

• 14/02 MDX Education Meets Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Precarity

• Warwick’s strike-breaking history students

• We’re all in it together within #HigherEd

• Laddism and Higher Education

• Popular Education Network Conference 2014 – Malta

• Noam Chomsky on The Purpose of Education

• The TEDification of #HigherEd? Negotiating between the accessibly simple and the simplistically accessible

• Enhancing the learner experience in HE

• The academic ethics of strikebreaking

• The Politics of Impact and Social Media

• The lack of space for engaging positively with the impact agenda

• There are no Digital Humanities

• Education, Emotions and the Future Seminar

• If communications offices want to promote particular departments they should make videos like this

• A dialogue between phenomenology and realism in pedagogical and educational research

• Imagine taking a Udacity class and being able to …..

• Living With The H-Index: Metric Assemblages In The Contemporary Academy

• Dear @LoughboroughSU, did this seem like a good idea at the time?

• Inaugural meeting for a SE London Campaign for Public Uni / CDBU group

• The value of public higher education

• Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

• EduWiki Conference 2013 – Call for proposals

• #HigherEd and the ‘Consumerization of IT’