• 📚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

• An interesting test for new Claude models

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

• The declining potential for agency with LLMs

• What impact is the AI crisis having on public perception of a degree’s value?

• How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

• The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource

• Helping students out of AI-spirals

• What are the conditions which make it possible to learn with AI?

• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• The murdering of possibility to regulate our suffering

• Generational hostility to AI

• Melancholia and creativity

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• What do we mean when we talk about a scaffold for learning?

• The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

• Is there a psychoanalytical concept for how one frustration can be a synecdoche for frustration as such?

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution?

• We need structural changes to assessment rather than discursive changes

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• What does it mean for students to use AI in active rather than passive ways?

• Nietzsche and Nick Cave

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• New paper: The changing nature of social media and research impact

• What do staff need to be ready for AI integration? 

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• The pedagogical risks of generative AI: the problem of cognitive outsourcing

• Glow

• F. Scott Fitzgerald on the metaphysical horror of insomnia

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

• Distance running and finishing books

• Stay calm, boy, my thoughts are burning like they’re napalm

• The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

• The jouissance of writing

• Life asks us to mourn each passing incarnation of the self

• Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way

• Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

• Why do we want what we want?

• Who we are arises from how we have been hurt

• ChatGPT’s roundup of Mark’s April blogging

• The realist concept of concern and the Lacanian concept of desire

• The utter banality of getting what you fantasise about

• “Jeremy Corbyn gets into Downing Street, pulls a lever currently jammed at neoliberalism, yoinks it in the direction of social democracy and all is good”

• Talkie: a pre-1931 chatbot

• Anno: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi

• Gemini’s propensity for self-loathing

• AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users