• 📣 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

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Capitalism is tearing us apart

• Rilke on living the questions rather than demanding the answers

• A theory of learning for the future: the realist concept of reflexivity and the pragmatist concept of experience

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• The lavender has stained my skin and made me strange

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Georg Simmel and Critical Realism

• Why (material) things matter to people

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• My favourite lyrics from Nick Cave’s Ghosteen filtered through an AI art generator

• Inventing our lives

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• What happens if Twitter fails? A few provisional suggestions

• What Microsoft Teams is and what it could be

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• Being open to the world

• The comfort of ideas

• The chasm at the heart of our agency

• Why do we tweet?

• Coaxing the sight and sound back to your life

• New Paper: Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

• The growing infrastructural dominance of big tech within education. What is to be done?

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group, Friday October 28th 1pm-2pm

• CfP: Public Knowledge – the Academy and Beyond

• What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy

• The temporal ontology of modernity

• Webinar: is an environmentally sustainable digital education possible?

• The unconscious fluency of writing

• I built a room for you in the back of my mind

• Are you looking for a teaching role in digital education?

• This Place is a Shelter

• Toni Morrison on fascism

• Disrupting the post-pandemic university: an audio experiment

• The meaning of civics as the new world struggles to be born

• Finding joy on a dying planet: failing to act as psychic self-defence and how to overcome it

• The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

• Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

• Podcasting in higher education

• Should you write every day?

• The privilige of academics during the pandemic

• Some thoughts on technology in the post-pandemic university

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group

• Some notes on social generativity