• 📚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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #67

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• International Association of Critical Realism 2024: Looking Back to Look Forward

• RIP Sam. 14 years yesterday.

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

• On dance notation

• Current mood in AI generated images #66

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• A capybara and its guinea pig friends ❤️

• Current mood in AI generated images #65

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• I’ve had this stuck in my head for the last 48 hours

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• How the use of deepfakes will be legitimated

• 🐈‍⬛ In praise of black cats

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• Current mood in AI generated images #64

• On AI therapy

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• The silent inner world

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• Claude 3 is astonishingly fluent in theorising its own path to super-intelligence

• A wild god searching for a faraway girl, who was basically a mirage that nevertheless loomed large

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• Margaret Archer’s Final Book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. Launch event on March 28th, 3pm GMT

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• ChatGPT’s attempts to circumvent copyright law are getting incredibly creative

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Current mood in AI generated images #62

• E-mail based generative AI: a good idea badly executed

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• 🌳 Last year is dead, they seem to say. Begin afresh, afresh, afresh 🌳

• Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education

• When I was young I was invincible

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”