• 📚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

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• Well this has got to die, this has got to stop

• Chat-GPT as a bullshit engine

• The unintelligent agency of generative AI

• To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• 👨‍🏫 The world’s a stage and we play a character, I found him 👨‍🏫

• How right-wing think tanks laid the foundation for the coalition’s agenda

• An idea for spotting chat-gpt written essays

• Call for Participants Globalisation and Commercialisation in the Social Sectors

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Trying to exist in superposition

• Internal conversation and repression

• This is the garden. Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest

• Learned societies and national conferences

• Post-Human Futures now out in paperback

• 🌼🌿 Spring is coming 🌼🌿

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• Generative AI and the Future of Education: A New Era of Possibility

• Baa Baa Land

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• I remember you well from the Chelsea hotel but that’s all, I don’t think of you that often

• The books ChatGPT thinks I already wrote and which I now think I should write

• ChatGPT: “Write me a poem about the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu”

• ChatGPT and the student digital learning experience

• A song about C Wright Mills written by Chat-GPT

• The Homework Machine

• Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

• The charter for AI

• Against Social Media for Academics

• The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

• Generative AI spam

• Using AI to reduce grading workload and increase student feedback

• The new digital divide: the generatively rich and the generatively poor?

• The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

• Generative AI as engines of radicalisation

• When I was young I was invincible

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

• On becoming mid career and post-disciplinary

• Every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination

• Teaching Associate in Digital Sociology at Cambridge Sociology

• The wonder of cats

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• I’ll fight you till I win

• And if I see you, how it changes me