• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• The ontological implications of generative AI

• Large language models as a corporate pissing contest

• The most incredible sky I’ve ever seen in Manchester

• The tension between attachment and authenticity

• 📍Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and Materializing Higher Education Futures

• Coming soon: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Defending the Social

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• You’re young until you’re not

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Here’s Lookin’ at You Kid

• I’m going to the river where the current rushes by

• Why do computational methods matter for education?

• On waiting for something to happen

• Metaverse-related books and films

• The concept of cathexis

• How do we stop social media making the academy even more unequal?

• Generative AI and the future of assessment: an open discussion at the Manchester Institute of Education 

• We might be dead by tomorrow

• LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

• Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

• Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression

• The Use of Digital Artefacts in Teaching and Researching: Guidelines for Practice