• 📣 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 images to prompt GAI story telling

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• Margaret Archer’s Final Book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. Launch event on March 28th, 3pm GMT

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• ChatGPT’s attempts to circumvent copyright law are getting incredibly creative

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Current mood in AI generated images #62

• E-mail based generative AI: a good idea badly executed

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• 🌳 Last year is dead, they seem to say. Begin afresh, afresh, afresh 🌳

• Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education

• When I was young I was invincible

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”

• Current mood in AI generated images #61

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• Codependency as Team Neurosis

• The old elephant loves Moonlight Sonata

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #60

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• It is not too late to seek a newer world

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• Current mood in AI generated images #59

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Intuition as social theory

• The reparative activity of cow-watching 🐮

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• The next wave of GAI: the digital daemon is coming soon

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• A map of AI productivity tools

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #58

• A trans reading of Poor Things

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in AI generated images #57

• Tell us where you’re from, what you want to become

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler