• 📚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

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The radicalisation of landlords

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

• Paz Lenchantin’s cover of Venus in Furs

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• And maybe that’s what getting older is, an accumulation of loss that turns you into a different sort of person

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Have you used Social Media for Academics in your teaching or training?

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Current mood in AI generated images #13

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• Current mood in AI generated images #12

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• In a financialised economy raising interest rates actually causes inflation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• How to avoid shiny new thing syndrome

• The impact of the cost of living crisis on the educational experiences of international students

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• What Do Artificial Intelligence Systems Mean For Academic Practice?

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• The technological infrastructure of beatboxing

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• Current mood in AI generated images #11

• The ‘decided desire’ of the post-analysis neurotic

• I should’ve found a way out so everyone can find a way out

• “She says, I’m not your enemy. I said, that sounds like something that my enemy would say”

• ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

• Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #10

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• Visualising The Real

• Niklas Luhmann’s critique of organisational sociology

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• Current mood in AI generated images #9

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• Science and scholarship in a changing Europe, July 3rd

• The list of things I used to be is longer than the list of things I am

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• I am not in Kansas, where I am I don’t know where