• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚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

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The invention of the Marvel universe

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• So here I am

• Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• Your next chapter will be great

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• We’re all coming home in a while

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Current mood in AI generated images #176

• If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you!

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• On being a mystery to ourselves

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• Current mood in AI generated images #175

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing