• I don’t rate you 👊

• The emptiness that comes with online performance

• Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

• New Paper: Platforms and Institutions in the Post-Pandemic University

• Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Pandemic Technofeudalism

• CfP: Digital Academia

• The Rise of Educational Audio

• Winter is coming 🎶😷🌨☃️

• The flow of writing

• A few thoughts on Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Walter Lippmann on the sociological imagination

• What is practical reasoning?

• Building and unveiling worlds in science fiction

• Why do we spend so little time analysing the socio-economic catastrophes which almost happened?

• Some rambling reflections on being a millennial leftist during this crisis, post-pandemic inequalities and the union sacrée of Covid-19

• I choose this, I choose this, I choose this

• Why isn’t the cost of living crisis the defining issue of UK politics?

• The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

• Who do we imagine ourselves to be tweeting on behalf of? Norm circles, networked harassment and the politics of social media

• Epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice 

• Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

• If you want to provide your writing with a sense of occasion, listen to this in the background

• Platform capitalism’s ideology of human frailty

• What can we do about the post pandemic university?

• The limits of online learning

• What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism

• You can tell a man’s demeanour from his facial hair

• E-mail mistakes as a window onto digital literacy in higher education

• George Monbiot on the tsunami of post-virus illness which is long Covid

• Do you use Margaret Archer’s approach to reflexivity in your work?

• Audiobook listening as scholarship

• Cambridge as the cutting edge of British capitalism

• The muppets explain phenomenology

• How bad will things get? The role of social theory when civilisation is collapsing

• I hate what you do and I don’t like you

• A comprehensive introduction to Social Media for Academics

• You either die a hero or you live long enough to see Batman’s words misattributed to you

• Platform capitalism and the compulsive search for signs

• How can I ensure I use social media in a careful and strategic way?

• Love and hugs and songs and rage 

• Against the individualisation of COVID

• Four alternatives to Evernote

• Where will all the anger go after the pandemic?

• User interface design and the LMS

• On being reflexive about how you e-mail

• “I’m sorry i just like myself more than I like you” 

• Why I’m extremely worried about this winter

• The failures of educational technologists to recognise the social context of educational technology

• RIP Mill Road Fox, a fleeting public mourns your death

• A provocative film: Zoom Education Has Failed An Entire Generation

• What is the ivory tower becoming?

• What does it mean to think sociologically about educational technology?

• Is anyone else’s WordPress doing this?

• The possible forms which post-capitalism could take

• I can be found in the garden, singing this song, when the last rose of summer is gone

• What is it like to be a New York City delivery driver?

• Education, Conflict & Crisis: From Critique to Transformation 

• CfP: Digital Transformation as a major issue in science and higher education 

• Under Northern Skies

• Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics

• Why I deleted my personal Twitter account

• The Collective on Education, Decoloniality and Emergencies is looking for a paid conference coordinator

• Do your research!

• The song which defined my experience of the pandemic

• A Memorandum of Understanding Between Pre-92 and Post-92 Universities

• David Hume on the existential limitations of philosophical reasoning

• Do we romanticise pre-digital life?

• What percentage of your life have you spent in a pandemic?

• Why herd immunity through vaccination isn’t possible

• Crises precipitate change

• The sociology of pandemic education

• Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

• The platform ecosystem as a field of temptation and the virtues required to negotiate it

• What I will miss about Cambridge, what I won’t miss about Cambridge

• The Buddhist principle of skill in means and theorising communication

• The sociological overlaps with incel culture

• Are you a non-player character in your own life?

• CfP: Living with Extinction

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• How does sociological thought contribute to human freedom?

• What does public engagement with academic research mean in an increasingly polarised society?

• Platform capitalism and the recovery of educational technics

• The Death of Yugoslavia

• It’s the final countdown…

• Are you a finisher or an abandoner? On the existential anxieties of the bibliophile

• Songs for teenagers

• The Return of the Privatdozent in the Platform University

• An introduction to community informatics

• The Side Effects of Vaccines – How High is the Risk?

• The Quest for Normativity: Challenges and New Directions in Social Research

• So no more talk about the backfires, this time we fire back

• Music is the weapon

• Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

• Being a digital scholar in the post-pandemic university

• The idiots are taking over

• Tilting within myself

• The epidemiological unsustainability of pre-Covid ways of living

• Higher education and the individualization of COVID-19

• The sociology of networked harassment