• 📣 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

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #131

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #130

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• The friendly face of objet petit a

• Burdened by the image of an unalienated future, one finds oneself fleeing from existence itself

• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #129

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #128

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• Current mood in AI generated images #127

• The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #126

• I live my life in widening circles

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• Put out my eyes, and I can see you still

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• Making the familiar strange

• The best resource on Lacan I’ve encountered so far

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• There was a Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 😮

• Current mood in AI generated images #125

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• The Deepfake Detection test

• Those whom we transform into myth are themselves myth-ridden

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #124

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #123

• What you seek, it is near, now comes to meet you half-way

• The enigmatic desolation of Caspar David Friedrich

• We must be still and still moving, into another intensity

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• 🍂 Current mood in AI generated images #122

• What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes