• 📚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 epochal theorising of Zygmunt Bauman

• The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, Rupert Brooke

• The lumpen-libertarian uprising

• Hold your own

• The Masterplan

• Winter is coming

• The growing divide in educational technology

• The suspended futures of Covid-19

• Post-Pandemic Digital Scholarship

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Hold your own

• Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

• It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Fragile movements and social media

• The infinite lecture hall model

• The campus as a learning infrastructure

• Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

• Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic

• The coming fascism

• Social media for academics and Covid-19

• Inhabited institutionalism

• Civic decline and the valorisation of debate

• The orthodox narrative of civic decline

• We won’t have digital scholarship until we rethink outputs, expertise and knowledge

• Social media in the Post-Pandemic University: a bootcamp for graduate students

• Silicon Valley’s cult of work

• Trump’s regrets about Twitter

• Time is a cycle, not a line

• Deadline soon! CfP: the Post-Pandemic University

• Platform Epistemics, Slavoj Žižek and Digital Reflexivity

• What does social media do to the civil sphere?

• What is participation?

• Covid-19, lockdown and the kinetic utopia of modernity

• Recognising the need which Jordan Peterson is serving

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• The importance of what we don’t (and can’t) say

• What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

• Žižek on asexuality

• Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

• The terrifying horizon of (digitalised) social order

• Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

• The monthly Digital Sociology discussion group

• What is a stereotype?

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• Is capitalism too big to fail?

• What is ‘modernising zeal’?

• Call for Papers: Digital Technology, Lockdown and the Post-Pandemic University

• Social media governance within higher education

• “The more closely you look at a word, the more distantly it stares back at you”

• Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Neoliberalism and its dependence upon oil