• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Olivia Laing on recovery

• One week after deleting my LLM accounts

• “I don’t know” is not an answer to the question

• My new favourite public art in Manchester

• Oh hello, I am also an AI. Would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?

• When LLMs give each other therapy

• We are poised on the shore of a new continent

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• There’s an old voice in my head that’s holding me back. Well, tell her that I miss our little talks

• On no longer being a trainee group analyst

• Freud on the psychic rewards of sublimation

• A psychoanalytical theory of thirdness

• Will economic constraints on token use in organisations drive the emergence of norms?

• 2 x 3 year lectureships in our team at the University of Manchester

• People’s pets are going to start dying due to the heat

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• The violence of writing

• The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

• Our pasts are a poem that we have to learn to recite

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• Can you wait for 139 seconds?

• Chatbots vs inline automation and their respective implications for students

• The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills

• Using small LLMs in teaching and learning

• Claude 5: Write me a funny limerick about Heideggerian ontology that has the grandeur of epic poetry

• Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

• An interesting test for new Claude models

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

• The declining potential for agency with LLMs

• What impact is the AI crisis having on public perception of a degree’s value?

• How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

• The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource

• Helping students out of AI-spirals

• What are the conditions which make it possible to learn with AI?

• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• The murdering of possibility to regulate our suffering

• Generational hostility to AI

• Melancholia and creativity

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• What do we mean when we talk about a scaffold for learning?