• 📣 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

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

• Manchester/Salford Critical Ed Tech Network Event, February 19th 12pm-2pm

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #159

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• Eep! Eep! Eep!

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• LLMs as engines of problematization

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #158

• Mainstream betting sides offering 1/3 odds on Trump either disregarding or changing constitutional term limits

• Zupančič: How to live a life worth living

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard | Full Length Documentary

• I just discovered there is a Capoeira fighter in the UFC and it’s stunning

• Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

• Why did the Bluesky migration succeed where the Mastodon migration failed?

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #157

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #156

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• You were not on the receiving end of it all

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• Why I find Manchester in 2025 architecturally depressing, but in an interesting way, in one photo

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #155

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• I asked a librarian if he had a book about Pavlov’s dogs and Schrödinger’s cat

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

• There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• “If H5 is ever going to be a pandemic, it’s going to be now”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #154

• Using reasoning models to support theory-building

• How are people using Claude?

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• Lacan lecturing in English: Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject whatever

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #153

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2025

• Goodbye 2024 👋

• The first reviews of Generative AI for Academics have arrived

• A condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything

• 2024: a (work) year in review

• My 25 favourite films of 2024

• My 20 favourite books of 2024

• ⚡️ The God War: my first attempt at Marvel fan fiction