• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚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

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• Lu You’s (1183) cat poetry

• Current mood in AI generated images #33

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• The Role of Professional Bodies in the Development of Sociology

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• So if I go down, Lily, I’m going down believing

• We’re getting a divorce, you keep the diner

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• Stuart Hall: “I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.”

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• ‘The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media’ is now open access

• ‘Promises Promises’: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic Re-Negotiation of Education Futures – Nov 22nd, Manchester

• Current mood in AI generated images #32

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Do you bury friendship along with a friend?

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• A TED talk on pet loss

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Current mood in AI generated images #31

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

• Hold it ’til you feel it there. As dark, and dense, and wet as earth. As vast, and bright, and sweet as air

• A frog jumps into the water

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The preciousness of what is already broken

• How I miss you, how I miss you. And it’s good to be alive

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Maté on grieving as compassionate inquiry

• Nature’s aim for everything includes its cessation

• I am a weatherman watching the skies, trying to read you

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• 🐈‍⬛ Farewell my silent comrade

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Michigan, 1975

• Who actually reads this blog?

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• And everybody’s hurt, and mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• We circle round the sun until someday we won’t, and on and on and on it goes

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• 🐈‍⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal

• If AI was like a hammer

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world