• 📣 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

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #152

• Current mood in AI generated images #151

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• What is Elon Musk’s end game?

• Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• A list of interesting Generative AI tools I want to explore

• You’ll need somebody when you come to die

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The enshittification of enshittification

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #150

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• So you were born and that was a good day, some day you’ll die and that is a shame

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• “It was the first time in my life where I felt an escape from my head”

• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #149

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #148

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Current mood in AI generated images #147

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• New opportunity for independent critical realist researchers

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #146

• Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches 😬

• A sociological rather than psychological notion of susceptibility to being drawn into cults

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Current mood in AI generated images #145

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Current mood in AI generated images #144

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #143

• What is ChatGPT? An introduction to humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism

• The Lacanian understanding of love