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Three books that shaped my work

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Resources for organising online conferences

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An ecological approach to information overload

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Some critical thoughts on the crisis of student engagement

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Institutionalising Civic engagement: what we can learn from the mistake of pressuring academics to use Twitter

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A cybernetic black pill

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How we survive is what makes us who we are

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14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

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The grim reality of ‘living with Covid’

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What is my research about?

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How do you listen to audiobooks in a scholarly way?

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Peter Sloterdijk and the concept of the sphere

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A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

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A first attempt to theorise socialisation in a way which is adequate to the challenges of platform society

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A critical realist critique of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthumanism

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Long Covid in the post-pandemic university

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Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

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Critical realism needs to be a living tradition

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An interview with Margaret Archer about her life and work

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Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?

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The drama of seeing real thinking

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We are already living in the collapse

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