• 📣 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

• Big Tech, Nationalism and Globalisation

• Automation and the reproduction of knowledge

• A video introduction to Social Media for Academics

• Most recently Amazon has gotten into healthcare—a $…

• Hampered by the need to defend the EU…

• We’re striking

• Connecting with what I’m actually interested in #exhaustionrebellion

• This was drawn by Patrick Tresset’s robot It…

• Why I’ve deleted my Twitter account #exhaustionrebellion

• The promise of the populist president

• Some screenshots from Social Media for Academics 2

• The logic of co-operation in the influencer economy

• Thinking with dichotomies: ‘old’ and ‘new’ media

• How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

• Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

• Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent

• The end of the opaque classroom

• A machinery for producing rationalisations

• How machine learning veils human bias

• The Great Disruptive Project of Uber

• The economics of attention vs the sociology of attention

• The paradox of the liberal contrarian

• The promise of the ‘passion economy’

• Upcoming Critical Realism webinars

• Social Media for Academics: The Changing Landscape of Scholarship

• The outlook of the digital technocrat

• An agenda for Digital Sociology

• A machine for killing relationality

• The Digital Condition: The Practical Order as Pivotal

• Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

• The vested interests of the media in Trump

• The Journal of Digital Social Research has launched!

• Social Media for Academics 2

• Whose university? Our university

• The acceleration of journalism

• Were you a fan of Sociological Imagination?

• The nostalgia of centrism

• The Platform University 2

• The first and second wave of viral publishers

• CfP: Data Literacy in Higher Education

• Vice’s ‘non-traditional’ working environment

• Recension Day

• Viral populism: what happens when isomorphism through algorithm hits politics?

• CfP: PostDigital Humans

• A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

• The Goods Yard, Kings Cross, London, UK

• The scholarly career of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti

• The gamification of virality and the pleasures it brings

• Staying small in order to grow

• A few notes the digital aristocracy

• Apps and their users: a few initial ontological thoughts

• Never say Amazon in a bookstore