• 📚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

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Current mood in AI generated images #49

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #48

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Two feet standing on a principle

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Current mood in AI generated images #47

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• The impending reality of the digital daemon

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Derek Hook on diagnosis in Lacan

• The starting point for my second attempt to write a novel: Trinity College Cambridge, after the crash 🌊☀️☠️

• The psychodynamics of the post-left

• Capybaras and chess: together at last

• He pretends that he’s understanding and you know in the grand scheme of everything he’s probably called a nice man

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• Nick Cave on the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning

• What are the analytical payoffs of Margaret Archer’s realist social theory?

• Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• What are your strengths?

• 📍Digital Sociology Wikipedia Editathon/Meetup – Feb 1st in Edinburgh

• What you’re doing to me now, ouch

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• Why did Giddens largely ignore Bourdieu?

• We need jungle, I’m afraid (I can’t accept drum and bass)

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• How much are academics paid in different national systems?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #46

• 📖 Books I’ve read in 2024

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• “I feel like I’m gaining some kind of power by expelling all of my inner thoughts and secrets to people in rooms”

• The Lacan gang