• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Day man, fighter of the night man ☀️

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• Stagnation, euthymia and flourishing

• Do you work with social media in universities?

• Academic developers as choreographers of professional reflexivity

• The difference between being post-pandemic and post-covid

• We’ll go someplace, we’ll get a new start 

• An introvert’s guide to post-pandemic networking

• How do you have rewarding conversations about social theory?

• Why do we read philosophy?

• I choose this

• What is it that’s special about face to face events? Perspectives from Peter Sloterdijk and Randall Collins

• What does sustainable (digital) scholarship look like for individual scholars?

• Why is learning theory important?

• How many times must we be shown the outcome of the pattern?

• How can we ensure consistency in digital education while leaving room for experimentation?

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Could we have a university without e-mail?

• Human augmentation and the future of warfare

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

• What am I trying to do with my research?

• On Rain

• What is an intellectual community?

• Some thoughts on intellectual community

• What does it mean to be an academic leader?

• And I can feel things changing

• An ecological approach to information overload

• Some critical thoughts on the crisis of student engagement

• Institutionalising Civic engagement: what we can learn from the mistake of pressuring academics to use Twitter

• A cybernetic black pill

• How we survive is what makes us who we are

• 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

• The grim reality of ‘living with Covid’

• What is my research about?

• How do you listen to audiobooks in a scholarly way?

• Peter Sloterdijk and the concept of the sphere

• A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

• A first attempt to theorise socialisation in a way which is adequate to the challenges of platform society

• A critical realist critique of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthumanism

• Long Covid in the post-pandemic university

• Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

• Critical realism needs to be a living tradition

• An interview with Margaret Archer about her life and work

• Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?

• The drama of seeing real thinking

• We are already living in the collapse

• These poor people live in these tiny apartments: Zoom as a window into the lifeworld in an unequal society