• 📣 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

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded

• Digital Scholarship after Covid-19: an overview of my next book

• We are ugly but we have the music

• Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

• Post-horror and the obscene character of (post-pandemic?) parties

• André Gorz and the concept of hygiene

• Reflexivity, contingency and platforms

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• What do you do, exactly?

• What are socio-technical transitions?

• Some thoughts on hybrid teaching and student poverty in the 22/23 academic year

• Flourishing as freedom

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• Stagnation, euthymia and flourishing

• Do you work with social media in universities?

• Academic developers as choreographers of professional reflexivity

• The difference between being post-pandemic and post-covid

• We’ll go someplace, we’ll get a new start 

• An introvert’s guide to post-pandemic networking

• How do you have rewarding conversations about social theory?

• Why do we read philosophy?

• I choose this

• What is it that’s special about face to face events? Perspectives from Peter Sloterdijk and Randall Collins

• What does sustainable (digital) scholarship look like for individual scholars?

• Why is learning theory important?

• How many times must we be shown the outcome of the pattern?

• How can we ensure consistency in digital education while leaving room for experimentation?

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Could we have a university without e-mail?

• Human augmentation and the future of warfare

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

• What am I trying to do with my research?

• On Rain

• What is an intellectual community?

• Some thoughts on intellectual community

• What does it mean to be an academic leader?

• And I can feel things changing

• An ecological approach to information overload

• Some critical thoughts on the crisis of student engagement

• Institutionalising Civic engagement: what we can learn from the mistake of pressuring academics to use Twitter

• A cybernetic black pill

• How we survive is what makes us who we are

• 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

• The grim reality of ‘living with Covid’