• 📚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

• The possible forms which post-capitalism could take

• I can be found in the garden, singing this song, when the last rose of summer is gone

• What is it like to be a New York City delivery driver?

• Education, Conflict & Crisis: From Critique to Transformation 

• CfP: Digital Transformation as a major issue in science and higher education 

• Under Northern Skies

• Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics

• Why I deleted my personal Twitter account

• The Collective on Education, Decoloniality and Emergencies is looking for a paid conference coordinator

• Do your research!

• The song which defined my experience of the pandemic

• A Memorandum of Understanding Between Pre-92 and Post-92 Universities

• David Hume on the existential limitations of philosophical reasoning

• Do we romanticise pre-digital life?

• What percentage of your life have you spent in a pandemic?

• Why herd immunity through vaccination isn’t possible

• Crises precipitate change

• The sociology of pandemic education

• Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

• The platform ecosystem as a field of temptation and the virtues required to negotiate it

• What I will miss about Cambridge, what I won’t miss about Cambridge

• The Buddhist principle of skill in means and theorising communication

• The sociological overlaps with incel culture

• Are you a non-player character in your own life?

• CfP: Living with Extinction

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• How does sociological thought contribute to human freedom?

• What does public engagement with academic research mean in an increasingly polarised society?

• Platform capitalism and the recovery of educational technics

• The Death of Yugoslavia

• It’s the final countdown…

• Are you a finisher or an abandoner? On the existential anxieties of the bibliophile

• Songs for teenagers

• The Return of the Privatdozent in the Platform University

• An introduction to community informatics

• The Side Effects of Vaccines – How High is the Risk?

• The Quest for Normativity: Challenges and New Directions in Social Research

• So no more talk about the backfires, this time we fire back

• Music is the weapon

• Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

• Being a digital scholar in the post-pandemic university

• The idiots are taking over

• Tilting within myself

• The epidemiological unsustainability of pre-Covid ways of living

• Higher education and the individualization of COVID-19

• The sociology of networked harassment

• Why the R number can be extremely misleading when it comes to the transmissibility of new variants

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty

• The reification of social change

• The enforced digitalisation of the pandemic

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The data have landed, by Michael Rosen