• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• I seem to chill the objects that I meant so much to love

• The loneliness of knowledge production during a pandemic

• The civic challenges which come after the pandemic

• The rook can look left, right, just turns his head. But the knight might rise up, investigate the grid…

• The politics of bad sex

• Teaching as a design science: a few reflections on Diana Laurillard’s approach to digital education

• The reservoirs and amplifiers of SARS-CoV-2

• The public discussion of higher education and research

• Call for Participants – Digital Inequality in Education: Pasts, Presents and Futures

• The point of life is live, love If you can, then pass it on

• The importance of the library

• Platform socialisation and the changing character of education

• RIP Jim Steinman

• What is social infrastructure?

• How to be a male ally in a culture of sexual violence against women

• What is asexuality and why is it interesting?

• Platform socialisation and the possibility of freedom

• I don’t control life, but I can control how I react to it

• Do you have an idea for a book about public sociology?

• What does it mean to be an efficacious agent? Some sketchy notes on critical realism and educational sociology

• Dewey’s conception of collateral learning and platform socialisation

• Why do platforms matter for public sociology?

• Recovering the Homeric gods

• An Archerian reading of John Dewey and its relevance for platform socialisation

• The role of involvement in learning how to learn

• Chomsky: On Being Truly Educated

• What sorts of experiences do social platforms generate?

• What do you miss? Research-led music on the impact of COVID-19 on higher education

• “Everybody’s hurt, mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now”

• Covid censoriousness

• The two competing models of education

• From the Margins to the Centre: Defining New Mission and Vision for HCI Researchers in South Asia

• The true object of democratic education: to stand up within the context and against the context

• Whom is education for? What is education for? A lecture by Noam Chomsky

• Noam Chomsky on The Purpose of Education

• The social ontology of education

• What is my work about?

• What do you do, exactly?

• On Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Education Ideal

• John Dewey, Habituation and Platform Socialisation

• Dewey on the over-socialised conception of ‘imitation’

• What are digital inequalities?

• Food or data? A few thoughts on digital inequality in the UK

• Call for solidarity from BEKS Istanbul

• New Book: The Public and their Platforms

• The agony of the petite bourgeoisie

• Big Tech’s (apparent) crackdown on the far right

• The gap between theory and practice in education

• The socialising role of community

• Higher education as self-formation

• How would John Dewey have understood the socialising influence of digital platforms?

• CFP: Accelerated Academy #8: Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemic