• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Mad Explosive Spontaneity

• Current mood in AI generated images #23

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world

• Shock as a narrative vacuum

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• Music that is helping me finish my book #4

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• Kill yоur maѕters, kill уour mаker, kill thе dawning of creatіon

• What do plants sound like?

• Ain’t it a sin?

• Using ChatGPT to fix spreadsheets

• Current mood in (non) AI generated images #22

• On platform and agency

• In defence of the lecture

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #21

• Music that is helping me finish my book #3

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• If Librarians Were Honest, by Joseph Mills

• ChatGPT’s advice on examining student essays for evidence of generative AI

• On sociological cynicism about AI

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Building the Post-Pandemic University – 24th October, 2pm-3pm GMT

• Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter

• Current mood in AI generated images #20

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #19

• Digital Sociology ECR workshop – Dec 14th-15th in Belgrade

• Call for Proposals – Posthumanism and Media Studies

• CfP: The Realist Approach to AI

• With this pain I’d rather paint and try to turn this broken picture into something that it ain’t

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• Who does the thinking? The role of generative AI in higher education

• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

• Generative AI, the threat of automation and the treatment/diagnosis link

• Current mood in AI generated images #18

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• 📍Help us build grassroots community media in Manchester

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #16

• Memorial to Margaret Archer at the 2023 IACR conference

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media