• 📣 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

• What is my research about?

• How do you listen to audiobooks in a scholarly way?

• Peter Sloterdijk and the concept of the sphere

• A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

• A first attempt to theorise socialisation in a way which is adequate to the challenges of platform society

• A critical realist critique of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthumanism

• Long Covid in the post-pandemic university

• Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

• Critical realism needs to be a living tradition

• An interview with Margaret Archer about her life and work

• Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?

• The drama of seeing real thinking

• We are already living in the collapse

• These poor people live in these tiny apartments: Zoom as a window into the lifeworld in an unequal society

• Philosophers as situated in space and time, trying to muddle their way through

• On not swimming in circles

• The tragedy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Hold your own

• Why education matters

• No guilty party

• The loneliness of Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the Post-Pandemic University?

• Can we reclaim our agency by putting the internet in its place?

• The shifting landscape of misinformation: from macro-conspiracies to micro-conspiracies

• And come morning, I am disappeared

• The ontology of virtual worlds

• When will the Metaverse actually arrive?

• Why Microsoft will beat Facebook to the Metaverse

• What’s it like to spend your entire life as a cruise ship guest?

• Our entire life is only 4000 weeks

• Civil inattention on public transport during a pandemic

• What does it feel like to be inspired?

• Levelling Up Education: New Approaches to Place, Work and Education

• The phenomenology of insomnia

• The social ontology of the Metaverse

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

• Three books that shaped my work

• The Enemy Bacteria

• The bloody scene is bloody sad 

• To every thing there is a season 

• Keanu Reeves = philosopher of social acceleration

• What does it mean to be human after Covid-19?

• Music for thinking

• Music is the basis of all life

• What do you do? Intellectual biography as self-constitution

• Cambridge: the most unequal city in the UK

• The suprisingly familiar character of the TikTok algorithm

• Why capitalism made it impossible to eradicate Covid

• So you don’t want to be a normal journal any more?

• When will we know how dangerous Omicron is?

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do, of waking up and of following through

• Towards a sociology of splintered minds