• 📚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

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• 📍Help us build grassroots community media in Manchester

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #16

• Memorial to Margaret Archer at the 2023 IACR conference

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Podcast: the future of the post-pandemic university

• 9 ways to use use conversational agents as a tool for thinking rather than a substitute for thought

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• Another GAI hallucinated book which I really want to write

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• Using generative AI to summarise conversations in order to feed them into future projects

• The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• GenAIEdu 2023: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education conference, Ulster University, Derry

• Music that is helping me finish my book #2

• I didn’t come looking for love, I didn’t come to pick a fight

• RIP Sam. I can’t believe it’s been 11 years.

• Music that is helping me finish my book #1

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

• A video reflection for the IACR 2023 Margaret Archer memorial session

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Cinemas as cultural temples

• Generative AI and the frictionless digital brain

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• Talk to my bot about my work

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

• “I think if you start writing a book and you don’t feel as if you’re drowning it’s not worth doing”

• Current mood in AI generated images #15

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• Generative AI for Academics

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• What’s been sticking in my eye? I got something sticking in my eye

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• When the earth opens up in front of you

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Current mood in AI generated images #14