• 📣 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

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #174

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• So, what is utopia good for? For walking

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #173

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #172

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #171

• Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt)

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #170

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #169

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #168

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #167

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #166

• Some thoughts on reading Margaret Archer’s work as a unified project

• Some notes on Margaret Archer’s theorising of digital technology

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

• RIP Michael Burawoy

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #165

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #164

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #163

• The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth

• Call for Book Proposals: University Reimagined

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #162

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• The practice of social theory

• Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

• The fire and the rose are one

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #161

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #160

• The sociological significance of TikTok

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• CfP: The New Urgency: The Use(lessness) of Theories in Educational Research