• 📣 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 fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• Current mood in AI generated images #121

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• The more I consider the world, the more I realize that it’s supposed to have a cohesion that no longer exists

• On being sane in insane places

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• Current mood in AI generated images #120

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• I just discovered Therapist Reaction YouTube and I can’t stop watching it

• Current mood in AI generated images #119

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Reflexivity was always integral to Margaret Archer’s macro-sociology

• He came home from the war with a party in his head

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #118

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

• I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• A poor lost and confused fox running down one of Manchester’s main shopping street in the middle of the day 😢

• Hannah Arendt Consortium Launch event Sept 26th and 27th, 2024

• Ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #117

• And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts

• The limp charade of Cambridge in the 2020s

• On getting what you want

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• Who’s to hold up the sky if not you and I?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #116

• Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on The Nowhere Office, by Julia Hobsbawm

• My notes on The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionise Everything, by Matthew Ball

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• My notes on Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• Generative AI Beyond the Bubble: Looking Ahead to the 24/25 Academic Year

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• “Dear Self, I know you’re crying out for help”