• 📣 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 Molecular Animation?

• Relying on algorithms for biosecurity

• The return of normality

• Post-pandemic reconstruction

• The creative freedom of post-work

• Someone is wrong on the internet: a conversation between web comics

• Call for papers: Special issue of Journal of Critical Realism on Critical Realism and Pragmatism

• Do people annoy you more than they used to?

• Students Jury on Online/Pandemic Learning: Thoughts To Consider

• The sublime high of visibility

• A conversation with Tyler Shores about digital wellbeing

• Raptor Jesus is Risen

• Big data, social listening and social futures

• Who is writing this blog?

• Magical voluntarism: I got this

• New Book: Post-Human Futures

• What big tech knows about your children

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• Professor Bernhard Steinerhoff, Lecturer

• Three thoughts about post-pandemic inequality

• Being immersed in work while it rains at night

• Nick Land’s Poeticisation of Capital’s Obscenity

• Post-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book

• What are the opportunities and challenges for Digital Social Research?

• What does it mean to be partners-in-freedom?

• 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’