• 📚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

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Together we can make hope normal again

• The internal tensions facing Reform before the next election

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• Sex as the things we cannot say

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• Claude Code GitHub commits over time

• From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

• LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

• Unlike the saints, we have no use for angels

• If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• To work and to build, to connect, and create

• The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

• What Should Mark Do in March? A Dialogue Between Claude and GPT

• GPT 5.4’s round up of Mark’s February blogging

• On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

• The victory over winter, which is coming, must come, perhaps has already come…

• Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

• Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• ☀️Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits

• The AI-productivity pay off is here and it’s slightly terrifying

• The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• How can I make sad music if I’m not sad anymore?

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: The jagged frontier of agentive AI and the risks of sociological prompt injection

• An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

• The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

• Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

• Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

• The productivity gains of agentic AI are starting to show

• The new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

• The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• Stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being

• What does thinking sound like to you?

• The libidinal character of speaking in public

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: the internet will soon be filled with lost and confused LLMs

• OpenAI have just made a big move into research software

• The influence of Kojève on Lacan

• Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

• The night is darkening round me

• Why we need a machine sociology #4: the relational configuration of agents determines their success

• Why we need a machine sociology #3: because the existing projects are absolutely fascinating

• The class composition of American proto-fascism