• 📚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

• Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

• New Paper: Platforms and Institutions in the Post-Pandemic University

• Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Pandemic Technofeudalism

• CfP: Digital Academia

• The Rise of Educational Audio

• Winter is coming 🎶😷🌨☃️

• The flow of writing

• A few thoughts on Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Walter Lippmann on the sociological imagination

• What is practical reasoning?

• Building and unveiling worlds in science fiction

• Why do we spend so little time analysing the socio-economic catastrophes which almost happened?

• Some rambling reflections on being a millennial leftist during this crisis, post-pandemic inequalities and the union sacrée of Covid-19

• I choose this, I choose this, I choose this

• Why isn’t the cost of living crisis the defining issue of UK politics?

• The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

• Who do we imagine ourselves to be tweeting on behalf of? Norm circles, networked harassment and the politics of social media

• Epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice 

• Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

• If you want to provide your writing with a sense of occasion, listen to this in the background

• Platform capitalism’s ideology of human frailty

• What can we do about the post pandemic university?

• The limits of online learning

• What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism

• You can tell a man’s demeanour from his facial hair

• E-mail mistakes as a window onto digital literacy in higher education

• George Monbiot on the tsunami of post-virus illness which is long Covid

• Do you use Margaret Archer’s approach to reflexivity in your work?

• Audiobook listening as scholarship

• Cambridge as the cutting edge of British capitalism

• The muppets explain phenomenology

• How bad will things get? The role of social theory when civilisation is collapsing

• I hate what you do and I don’t like you

• A comprehensive introduction to Social Media for Academics

• You either die a hero or you live long enough to see Batman’s words misattributed to you

• Platform capitalism and the compulsive search for signs

• How can I ensure I use social media in a careful and strategic way?

• Love and hugs and songs and rage 

• Against the individualisation of COVID

• Four alternatives to Evernote

• Where will all the anger go after the pandemic?

• User interface design and the LMS

• On being reflexive about how you e-mail

• “I’m sorry i just like myself more than I like you” 

• Why I’m extremely worried about this winter

• The failures of educational technologists to recognise the social context of educational technology

• RIP Mill Road Fox, a fleeting public mourns your death

• A provocative film: Zoom Education Has Failed An Entire Generation

• What is the ivory tower becoming?

• What does it mean to think sociologically about educational technology?

• Is anyone else’s WordPress doing this?