• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• “You just cannot trust someone who is publishing ten papers a year in top journals.”

• When we get together, take apart my fantasy; when we are done, we’ll work on you

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• Urban geometries

• My 30 favourite films of the last two years

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• Academic censorship on sexual misconduct and power abuse: Not in our academia

• I guess this is growing up

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• You’re waiting for more than you can feel

• Machine translation in higher education

• Can academic projects keep up with the UX expectations of students?

• Some thoughts on Bluesky

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #27

• How to think contextually about educational technology

• Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

• To what extent was Roy Bhaskar’s later philosophy shaped by Theosophism?

• Lauren Berlant on the couple form’s own ordinary dangers

• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• A list of human cognitive biases and the assumptions underpinning them

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• The music of the data centre

• Interview with me in VoltEdu about academic social media after Twitter

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #26

• “Go, you chicken fat, go!”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #25

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #24

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• Societal collapse is a process rather an event

• The hostility to earnestness in 90s/00s British culture

• Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in

• What we call the beginning is often the end

• Goodbye summer ☀️ 👋 🍂

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• 9 Stoic Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)

• On learning what matters to us

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• The beat that completes your shit these days

• The looming crisis in higher education