• 📚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

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Socio-epistemic bubbles as the ubiquitous tacit structures of knowledge production

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #86

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #85

• The interaction between climate change and antimicrobial resistance

• Some thoughts on the limitations of critical distance

• How to enjoy writing #15: Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #84

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• Current mood in AI generated images #83

• 🎧 Generative Dialogues: a podcast about GAI in higher education

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

• For I move slower and quieter than most

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• Four useful roles you can ask ChatGPT or Claude to play

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• If we don’t approach GAI with reflexivity then education is doomed

• Adam Tooze on the sweaty muscularity of state power

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• The enjoyment of turmoil

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #82

• Crowds on Demand: “out-of-the-box campaigns, audiences and events”

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• The almost infinite range of cases to which shallow fakes can be applied

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a million locks and finally read a book in peace

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me

• Margaret Archer’s last paper: Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach?

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing