• 📚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

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• Current mood in AI generated images #105

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Can you get Claude to explain why it refuses to insult you? An exploration of LLMs, guard rails and self-reference

• Join us on August 3rd to celebrate the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #104

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #103

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• You can now build and publish simple web apps using Claude

• Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

• I wander through the pet store asking, “What is my true nature?”

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• Current mood in AI generated images #102

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #101

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The unacknowledged debt of Richard Rorty to the ethos of post-war Oxford philosophy

• “I love you and that painful decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day”

• Some thoughts on the UK general election 2024

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

• Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• Things Stoics say that I want to remember #1

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• Nick Cave on becoming a person

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

• How did J. L. Austin’s war time experience shape his theory of performativity?

• Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

• Gulls are urbanists, as fiercely identified with that status as any bearded gentrifier

• What is sexual attraction? Some Lacanian thoughts on asexuality studies

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #100

• 🤫 Bury the evidence

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right over the next ten years?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #99

• I made friends with a family of capybaras

• You came on your own, that’s how you’ll leave

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• My ten favourite films of 2024 so far