• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• “It was the first time in my life where I felt an escape from my head”

• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #149

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #148

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Current mood in AI generated images #147

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

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• New opportunity for independent critical realist researchers

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #146

• Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches 😬

• A sociological rather than psychological notion of susceptibility to being drawn into cults

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Current mood in AI generated images #145

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Current mood in AI generated images #144

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #143

• What is ChatGPT? An introduction to humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• Hannah Arendt on Benjamin’s thought fragments and pearl diving

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• 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

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #142

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• I talked to somebody again who knows how to help me get better

• Current mood in AI generated images #141

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

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