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Sixty, apparently, and most of it spent working in Digital Education

Prologue  So, I’m going to be 60, or if you’re reading this I am 60. It doesn’t feel momentous, I’m not even sure it should […]

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Beyond the Borderlands: Reimagining the Competencies of Postdigital Educational Leadership in an Era of Coalescing Geopolitical Crisis.

Based on Bryant, P., Lanclos, D., & Phipps, L., “Beyond the Borderlands: Reimagining the Competencies of Postdigital Educational Leadership in an Era of Coalescing Geopolitical […]

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Your Brain wasn’t built by a vendor!

Sunday morning. I rarely read newspapers anymore, so to get that same feeling of existential dread I was scrolling LinkedIn. There is a post by […]

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New year, new low in accountability in public discourse

Well it’s new year, and I was going to blog about some of the thinking I’d done around Postdigital leadership (maybe later) but instead I […]

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Climate, AI, and Technosolutionism 

I’ve been working in technology and higher education for so long that sometimes I forget that I have a background in environmental science. This morning […]

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Toxicity and Responsibility: Is it time to reassess institutional engagement with Twitter (X)

About a year ago I  left Twitter (or X), a decision based on concerns about the platform’s increasingly toxic environment. The decision was right, and […]

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Some small thoughts on climate change.

Working in Higher Ed we often despair of the way people ignore the warning signs of climate change, we work at dispelling the misinformation of […]

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Push the Narrative Back!

“Why won’t you let us innovate?!” “You are holding us back!” “If we have to do the things you say, we won’t be able to […]

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ACCOUNT SUSPENDED: YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE

Some Background Yesterday was remembrance Sunday in the UK, as always it falls nearest the the 11th of November. I am sure people know, but […]

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That thing you just said about your AI? Yeah, I have questions.

I / we have written about AI. We have asked about disclaimers and acknowledgements in response to people saying things like “We might feel that […]