• 📚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

• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too

• A new academic and intellectual bio after an eventful year

• Do we need a horizon scanning infrastructure for AI in higher education?

• What is happening when we desire to watch or read something?

• Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Expanding the very possibilities of being

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

• The rise of Youtube “street content”

• You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us”

• The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

• Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document”

• Olivia Laing on recovery

• One week after deleting my LLM accounts

• “I don’t know” is not an answer to the question

• My new favourite public art in Manchester

• Oh hello, I am also an AI. Would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?

• When LLMs give each other therapy

• We are poised on the shore of a new continent

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back. Well, tell her that I miss our little talks

• On no longer being a trainee group analyst

• Freud on the psychic rewards of sublimation

• A psychoanalytical theory of thirdness

• Will economic constraints on token use in organisations drive the emergence of norms?

• 2 x 3 year lectureships in our team at the University of Manchester

• People’s pets are going to start dying due to the heat

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• The violence of writing

• The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

• Our pasts are a poem that we have to learn to recite

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• Can you wait for 139 seconds?

• Chatbots vs inline automation and their respective implications for students

• The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills

• Using small LLMs in teaching and learning

• Claude 5: Write me a funny limerick about Heideggerian ontology that has the grandeur of epic poetry

• Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?