• CFP: “Digital Subjectivities” Conference (Freie Universität Berlin, May 2026)

• The first AI ‘law firm’ in the UK

• 📘 Have you written a PhD using critical realism?

• Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

• Current mood in AI generated images #176

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #170

• The practice of social theory

• CfP: The New Urgency: The Use(lessness) of Theories in Educational Research

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2025

• Goodbye 2024 👋

• Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

• Current mood in AI generated images #135

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #124

• You can’t ban the English Defence League because it doesn’t exist but you can force Telegram to shut down organising groups

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• I came in here for anecdotes and left with friends I’ll never sing for

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• The Many Maps of the University of Manchester Campus. June 7th + 8th

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Some thoughts on the limitations of critical distance

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• 💻 Advance Your Career in Digital Education with the MA Digital Technologies Communication and Education

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• 90% of books sell less than 2000 copies and 50% sell less than 12 companies

• How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• Leave me alone

• Out Now: Margaret Archer’s Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• On temporising

• Book launch: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics, March 28th at 3pm-4pm

• International Association of Critical Realism 2024: Looking Back to Look Forward

• Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The psychodynamics of the post-left

• The book scene from The Remains of the Day

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd.

• The secret origin of NESTA

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• Current mood in AI generated images #23

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Building the Post-Pandemic University – 24th October, 2pm-3pm GMT

• Digital Sociology ECR workshop – Dec 14th-15th in Belgrade

• CfP: The Realist Approach to AI

• 📍Help us build grassroots community media in Manchester

• Memorial to Margaret Archer at the 2023 IACR conference

• Talk to my bot about my work

• Generative AI for Academics

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• Have you used Social Media for Academics in your teaching or training?

• What Do Artificial Intelligence Systems Mean For Academic Practice?

• Science and scholarship in a changing Europe, July 3rd

• The return of fascism in Europe

• What will a radical wave of automation look like in higher education?

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• What is a ‘quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

• How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• Artificial intelligence and educational centralisation

• Words are for those with promises to keep

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• Birdsong

• Obama the Blairite moderniser

• The death of participatory media

• Developing a research agenda consistent with Ikagai

• 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

• Post-Human Futures now out in paperback

• Generative AI spam

• Teaching Associate in Digital Sociology at Cambridge Sociology

• Coming soon: Building the Post-Pandemic University

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

• Defending the Social

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

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

• Ontological questions about the metaverse

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

• Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Who should we trust when the apocalypse comes? Some thoughts on post-horror

• There’s no guilty party

• Peter Sloterdijk on the difficulty of saying what is missing

• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain