• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• CfP: Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference

• New paper – ‘Views expressed here are my own and not those of the university’: social media policies in UK higher education institutions

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• The sociological significance of TikTok

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Why did the Bluesky migration succeed where the Mastodon migration failed?

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• An ultra-minimalist blogging platform

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Someone is WRONG on the internet!

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• Digital-first scholarship

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

• Who actually reads this blog?

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Some thoughts on Bluesky

• Interview with me in VoltEdu about academic social media after Twitter

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• The death of participatory media

• Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

• A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

• This looks interesting – Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• Against Social Media for Academics

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

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

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

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

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

• The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

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

• How to enjoy reading social theory

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

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality