• 📣 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 Side Effects of Vaccines – How High is the Risk?

• The Quest for Normativity: Challenges and New Directions in Social Research

• So no more talk about the backfires, this time we fire back

• Music is the weapon

• Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

• Being a digital scholar in the post-pandemic university

• The idiots are taking over

• Tilting within myself

• The epidemiological unsustainability of pre-Covid ways of living

• Higher education and the individualization of COVID-19

• The sociology of networked harassment

• Why the R number can be extremely misleading when it comes to the transmissibility of new variants

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty

• The reification of social change

• The enforced digitalisation of the pandemic

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The data have landed, by Michael Rosen

• The political economy of Bidenism

• The ontological preconditions for radical digital citizenship

• A video introduction to The Public and Their Platforms

• Heidegger on the End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking

• Conspiracy theories as assembly devices

• On waiting for life to start

• The compulsive search for signs

• The district sleeps alone tonight

• The malaise of modernity

• Black out on white night

• This is a test post from a WordPress session

• The pedagogical principles of the Python bootcamp

• New Chapter: Growing Up in a World of Platforms

• New Paper: Public Scholarship in the Platform University

• The voyages of concepts: some critical thoughts on sociotechnical imaginaries and its application in education

• What critical realism can learn from ANT and speculative realism

• I ain’t waiting for nothing, I just show up to shine

• Participants needed for two projects about technology, inequality, and the future of Higher Education

• A Song of Goodbye, by Ian McMillan

• In a world that has decided that it’s going to lose its mind, be more kind my friends

• The Somatechnics of Research

• Nietzsche’s theory of dialogue and its implications for educational podcasting

• Social media exposes the gap between the real company culture and the management fantasy

• How has the pandemic changed internet use in the UK?

• Call for participants: a global dialogue about the digital divide

• 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