• 📣 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 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

• Post-Pandemic Scholarship: Some Initial Thoughts, April 22nd at 2pm GMT

• The great sickly slums which will soon be screaming

• State capacity for decisive action in an emergency does not necessitate the suppression of democracy

• From the war on terror to the war on pandemics?

• The spectral character of Covid-19, or, will growing deaths undermine denialism

• A sober discussion of vaccine risks

• Defining a time frame: from the pandemic, to the intermediate pandemic to the post-pandemic

• The relevance of Erich Fromm for online learning during a pandemic

• Human culture and Covid-19

• A few thoughts about the anti-lockdown case

• Solutionism and Covid-19

• The variation in the R rate between infected individuals

• The technological strength yet evolutionary weakness of human civilisation vis-a-vis SARS-CoV-2

• The institutional health of Sociology in the UK

• What comes after Trump?

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• Is Slavoj Žižek slowly becoming Christopher Hitchens?

• Take only what you need from it

• The insidious sexism of Modern Family

• Theorising socio-cultural change: a note on the casual contemptuousness of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst

• Physical distancing and intensified social connectivity

• A note of caution about posthumanism in education

• Some thoughts on the political economy of Covid-19

• I’m in love with the night

• Some critical thoughts about the post-digital

• I miss Gaslight Anthem so much

• Why can’t history leave us alone? I want to return to my bubble