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

• social media and academic freedom

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

• using snapchat in higher education

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

• 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 Responsibilities of Academics

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

• 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”

• Constructing a sociological career in the accelerated academy

• 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

• The omnipresent threat of violence under neoliberalism

• 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”

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 1

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

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

• Cruel optimism in #highered

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

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

• 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!”

• Ghosts of Sociologists Past in the Accelerated Academy

• Higher Education and The Temporal Conditions for Critique

• Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

• CfP: Feminist Early Career Academics

• ‘Rank and Yank’ in Higher Education

• Queerly Theorising Higher Education & Academia: Symposium Registration

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

• CfP: Ethics and Education Research

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

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

• 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”

• Call for Papers: Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism

• The DIY PhD and the transformation of intellectual life

• Metrics in international #highered

• Intellectual Trajectory and the Pleasures of Disciplinarity

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

• University complaints by students top 20,000

• The Anthropology of Hipsters (and what it reveals about Anthropology)

• The Impact Agenda and the Good (Academic) Life

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

• Warwick Oral History Network Seminar

• The Semiotics of Academic E-mail Signatures

• Review of punk sociology

• CfP: What are seminars for? What are conferences for? Towards DIY academic events

• We’re all in it together within #HigherEd

• Laddism and Higher Education

• Noam Chomsky on The Purpose of Education

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

• Perverse Incentives in Scholarly Publishing

• Enhancing the learner experience in HE

• The academic ethics of strikebreaking

• There are no Digital Humanities

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

• The Case Against Open Access

• The value of public higher education

• Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

• Normativity, Social Science and Secularism: Reply to @rightscholar

• “What was Visual Sociology?”: specialisation and fragmentation within disciplines

• The growth of ‘marcomms’ and the transformation of higher education

• The Great University Gamble

• Why have other VCs not been making the case for UK higher education in the media over the last two years?

• Student Fees, Common Goods and Moral Imagination