• 📣 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 importance of the library

• Platform socialisation and the changing character of education

• RIP Jim Steinman

• What is social infrastructure?

• How to be a male ally in a culture of sexual violence against women

• What is asexuality and why is it interesting?

• Platform socialisation and the possibility of freedom

• I don’t control life, but I can control how I react to it

• Do you have an idea for a book about public sociology?

• What does it mean to be an efficacious agent? Some sketchy notes on critical realism and educational sociology

• Dewey’s conception of collateral learning and platform socialisation

• Why do platforms matter for public sociology?

• Recovering the Homeric gods

• An Archerian reading of John Dewey and its relevance for platform socialisation

• The role of involvement in learning how to learn

• Chomsky: On Being Truly Educated

• What sorts of experiences do social platforms generate?

• What do you miss? Research-led music on the impact of COVID-19 on higher education

• “Everybody’s hurt, mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now”

• Covid censoriousness

• The two competing models of education

• From the Margins to the Centre: Defining New Mission and Vision for HCI Researchers in South Asia

• The true object of democratic education: to stand up within the context and against the context

• Whom is education for? What is education for? A lecture by Noam Chomsky

• Noam Chomsky on The Purpose of Education

• The social ontology of education

• What is my work about?

• What do you do, exactly?

• On Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Education Ideal

• John Dewey, Habituation and Platform Socialisation

• Dewey on the over-socialised conception of ‘imitation’

• What are digital inequalities?

• Food or data? A few thoughts on digital inequality in the UK

• Call for solidarity from BEKS Istanbul

• New Book: The Public and their Platforms

• The agony of the petite bourgeoisie

• Big Tech’s (apparent) crackdown on the far right

• The gap between theory and practice in education

• The socialising role of community

• Higher education as self-formation

• How would John Dewey have understood the socialising influence of digital platforms?

• CFP: Accelerated Academy #8: Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemic

• All hail our new robot overlords

• This is a test post from a wordpress webinar which I’ll delete

• The Slow Cancellation of the Future

• My so called life

• Us

• A digital citizenship agenda for educators

• The importance of a chart is inversely proportional to its necessity to the argument

• Workshop: the Digital Divide in the Post-Pandemic University

• Being open to the world

• We have to destroy all computers, starting now