• 📣 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

• Digital-first scholarship

• An introduction to asexuality

• I never trusted my love and her wallpaper feelings

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• Current mood in AI generated images #56

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• 📍Exciting opportunity to join our team: 2 x permanent T&R lectureships at University of Manchester

• Capybaras: water loving hippo hamsters who can’t be bothered enough to care

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• Building local journalism around quality rather than quantity

• Adorno and the Busenattentat (breast action)

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Current mood in AI generated images #55

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• Margaret Archer’s interest in reflexivity was there from 1979

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #54

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• I sometimes find you childish, I sometimes find you mesmerising

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• It just occurred to me the last five films I saw were all utterly outstanding

• Current mood in AI generated images #53

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The challenge of feral sociology

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews