• 📣 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

• And it’s sick that all these battles are what keeps me satisfied

• If IBM is here to make your dreams come true, you can probably say the same thing about nightmares too

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Current mood in AI generated images (and music) #107

• Stare into the void until the void stares back

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• The political economy of hopelessness

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #106

• Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• Lacan on the trauma of birth

• I see you fading, fading, but you saved me

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• Current mood in AI generated images #105

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Can you get Claude to explain why it refuses to insult you? An exploration of LLMs, guard rails and self-reference

• Join us on August 3rd to celebrate the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #104

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #103

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• You can now build and publish simple web apps using Claude

• Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

• I wander through the pet store asking, “What is my true nature?”

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• Current mood in AI generated images #102

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #101

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The unacknowledged debt of Richard Rorty to the ethos of post-war Oxford philosophy

• “I love you and that painful decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day”

• Some thoughts on the UK general election 2024

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

• Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• Things Stoics say that I want to remember #1

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• Nick Cave on becoming a person