• How right-wing think tanks laid the foundation for the coalition’s agenda

• An idea for spotting chat-gpt written essays

• Call for Participants Globalisation and Commercialisation in the Social Sectors

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Trying to exist in superposition

• Internal conversation and repression

• This is the garden. Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest

• Learned societies and national conferences

• Post-Human Futures now out in paperback

• 🌼🌿 Spring is coming 🌼🌿

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• Generative AI and the Future of Education: A New Era of Possibility

• Baa Baa Land

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• I remember you well from the Chelsea hotel but that’s all, I don’t think of you that often

• The books ChatGPT thinks I already wrote and which I now think I should write

• ChatGPT: “Write me a poem about the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu”

• ChatGPT and the student digital learning experience

• A song about C Wright Mills written by Chat-GPT

• The Homework Machine

• Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

• The charter for AI

• Against Social Media for Academics

• The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

• Generative AI spam

• Using AI to reduce grading workload and increase student feedback

• The new digital divide: the generatively rich and the generatively poor?

• The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

• Generative AI as engines of radicalisation

• When I was young I was invincible

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

• On becoming mid career and post-disciplinary

• Every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination

• Teaching Associate in Digital Sociology at Cambridge Sociology

• The wonder of cats

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• I’ll fight you till I win

• And if I see you, how it changes me

• There’s poetry inside this city if you listen enough

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• The ontological implications of generative AI

• Large language models as a corporate pissing contest

• The most incredible sky I’ve ever seen in Manchester

• The tension between attachment and authenticity

• 📍Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and Materializing Higher Education Futures

• Coming soon: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Defending the Social

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• You’re young until you’re not

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Here’s Lookin’ at You Kid

• I’m going to the river where the current rushes by

• Why do computational methods matter for education?

• On waiting for something to happen

• Metaverse-related books and films

• The concept of cathexis

• How do we stop social media making the academy even more unequal?

• Generative AI and the future of assessment: an open discussion at the Manchester Institute of Education 

• We might be dead by tomorrow

• LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

• Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

• Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression

• The Use of Digital Artefacts in Teaching and Researching: Guidelines for Practice

• Some thoughts about generative AI and the future of education

• I am older now and we did it when we were young

• Too much Zoom in the post-pandemic university

• Irvine Welsh on angst, addiction and writing

• Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

• The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

• Why do computational methods matter for education? Jan 18th at 4pm GMT

• Blog Maggot

• ChatGPT’s limerick about Nietzsche’s depressiveness

• Going on Strike from the Internet: A Plea for Disconnection

• The ladder of abstraction

• Ontological questions about the metaverse

• I am large, I contain multitudes

• What is trauma?

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• The only thing that’s left to do is live

• How to enjoy reading social theory

• Year’s End

• The eye-on-the-object look

• Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

• The pleasure of returning to novels

• Why we need a post-digital approach to the platform university

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• Next year’s going to be better than this

• I miss my old house

• The time a bus went boom outside a conference I was organising