• 📣 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

• I did not remember how frequently characters smoked in early 90s superhero comics

• The most popular posts on my blog in 2023

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #41

• Online reading group: Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• What is social ontology? Margaret Archer’s introduction in 13 minutes

• Current mood in AI generated images #40

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• Why do buildings feel the way they do for us?

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• Now I’m ready to grow young again

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Current mood in AI generated images #39

• Current mood in AI generated images #38

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

• The grief, it gets me, and the weird goodbyes

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• You could still be what you said you were when I met you

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• Current mood in AI generated images #37

• “You point your fucking finger. You racist, you bigot. But that’s not the problem, now is it?”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #36

• Donna Tartt reads The Secret History

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

• My 10 favourite films of 2023

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• Never trust a Tory

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• Time to get the seeds into the cold ground. It takes a while to grow anything.

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• When Elon Musk and George Osborne were forced to confront that people hate them

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• The best Gaslight Anthem show I’ve found on Youtube

• Generative AI for Academics

• The best National show I’ve found on YouTube

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #35

• The rise of sociophobia

• Current mood in AI generated images #34

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The future’s not what it used to be

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• I can’t steal you