• 📣 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

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

• How visible are you in the LLM?

• Why AI vendors are targeting public institutions

• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• The beginnings have already begun

• The language models have persuaded me I should shut up for a bit

• Claude’s final round up of my blogging

• ChatGPT’s final round up of my blogging

• Are LLM-written Substacks getting out of hand?

• What are the judgements which students are making as they use AI?

• How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

• The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

• I know you love to fall

• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• So I stayed in the darkness with you

• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too

• A new academic and intellectual bio after an eventful year

• Do we need a horizon scanning infrastructure for AI in higher education?

• What is happening when we desire to watch or read something?

• Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• Expanding the very possibilities of being

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

• The rise of Youtube “street content”

• You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us”

• The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

• Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document”

• 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