• 📣 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

• Beyond fast and slow: temporal ontology in critical higher education scholarship

• Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

• a machine that’ll speak for me

• Debates about the nature of education

• The origins of the micro/macro divide

• The social origins of educational systems 

• the school in the sky, the school between the cracks

• Nigel Farage the YouTube star 

• Masterclass: An Introduction to Machine Learning

• A really interesting cfp on media and time

• The Corporate Fortresses of Digital Capitalism

• Where is the agency which will reign in big tech?

• Who’s a Bully? Civility, Authoritarianism, and Power in the Contemporary Academy

• Thinking with your feet 

• Trying to exist in superposition

• CfP: Digital Resistance

• From gated communities to moated communities

• Off shore capital and the great inflation

• What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

• The Sociology of Escalation Effects

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

• Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

• Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

• The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age

• Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 2 – Work Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 1 – Youth Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Introducing Digital Futures

• Engineer automaticity in digital capitalism: from Bauman’s gardening state to the synthetic biology corporation

• Repoliticising tech mythology

• Digital technology and facilitating corruption

• An industry for creating dynasties

• Margaret Archer’s social theory as a revulsion in the fact of empiricsm

• The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

• A masterclass in post-capitalist publishing with Gary Hall

• “They ruined the world”

• From political engagement to asset protection

• The collapse of the tech mythology

• CFP: Intersectional Automations

• The singular new risks of organisational IT projects

• The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

• How corruption makes history  

• The political economy of viral stars 

• My imposter syndrome

• Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

• Fake news as an endless game of epistemic whack-a-mole

• On dialogical pessimism 

• The ideas industry and funding the new right

• Is this what techno-fascism will look like?

• a DDoS attack on the human will