• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Start the Riot!

• How disagreements about evidence shaped the UK government’s inaction over face masks

• What’s been made visible by COVID-19 and what might become invisible once again

• The Project Graveyard

• What’s gone wrong with social media in higher education and why we urgently need to fix it

• Rap against dictatorship

• The case against lockdown

• Hannah Arendt on Conspiracies

• A collection of sea shanties

• Hope Not Hate’s recommendations for Zoom security

• The death march into crisis

• Behold him now, in utter solitude

• Who holds back the electric car?

• Popular Culture and Pandemic Imaginaries

• What’s it like to move from organising face-to-face conferences to organising online conferences?

• Chomsky on Anarchism

• Pragmatising Philosophy

• A moment of violence

• The psychopolitics of lockdown

• Imagining a decentralised social media

• data.index

• Part of me stays in the room where we met

• What has a year of COVID-19 done to knowledge production?

• Heterosexuality is a Construct

• Never trust a Tory

• What do we mean by ‘post-pandemic’?

• The poetics of pandemics: why ‘living with covid’ gets squeezed out by ‘life after covid’

• The latent utopia of Twitter

• What have we lost in the accelerated academy?

• What will hybrid offices look like?

• How will vaccine nationalism reshape globalisation?

• Save us, the human existence is failing

• Navigating research revolutions: big data, open research and post-truth

• They set me on fire and I did a lot of burning

• A quick guide to academic podcasting during a pandemic (part 1)

• The space for learning design during a pandemic

• Concepts for the new normal

• Sociology On and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: An Online Symposium

• The self under siege: the best introduction to modern continental philosophy I’ve encountered

• data.matrix

• Eat the meek

• The missing skill of technological reflexivity

• The responsibility of educators in a pandemic

• Craft and exploitation in the digital university

• The socio-political makeup of the coronaskeptic movement

• Preventing pandemics or preparing for them

• An internet minute in 2020

• Critical realism and digital social science

• Who’s to hold up the sky if not you and I?

• I got debts that no honest man can pay

• What does it look like when a health care system breaks down?

• This new age of plagues is directly the result of economic globalization