• 📚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

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• Margaret Archer’s interest in reflexivity was there from 1979

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #54

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• I sometimes find you childish, I sometimes find you mesmerising

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• It just occurred to me the last five films I saw were all utterly outstanding

• Current mood in AI generated images #53

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The challenge of feral sociology

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• You’re young until you’re not, you love until you don’t, you try until you can’t

• 📍Margaret Archer’s final book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

• Current mood in AI generated images #51

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• Margaret Archer’s final paper: Coincidence – A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future

• Why aren’t libertarian conspiracy theorists interested in Project 2025?

• I don’t like walking around this old and empty house. So hold my hand, I’ll walk with you my dear

• Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Current mood in AI generated images #50

• These kids don’t play my shit I never had a top ten, maybe it’s because I sing about violence and depression  

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance