• 📣 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

• The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

• Our pasts are a poem that we have to learn to recite

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• Can you wait for 139 seconds?

• Chatbots vs inline automation and their respective implications for students

• The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills

• Using small LLMs in teaching and learning

• Claude 5: Write me a funny limerick about Heideggerian ontology that has the grandeur of epic poetry

• Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

• An interesting test for new Claude models

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

• The declining potential for agency with LLMs

• What impact is the AI crisis having on public perception of a degree’s value?

• How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

• The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource

• Helping students out of AI-spirals

• What are the conditions which make it possible to learn with AI?

• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• The murdering of possibility to regulate our suffering

• Generational hostility to AI

• Melancholia and creativity

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• What do we mean when we talk about a scaffold for learning?

• The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

• Is there a psychoanalytical concept for how one frustration can be a synecdoche for frustration as such?

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution?

• We need structural changes to assessment rather than discursive changes

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• What does it mean for students to use AI in active rather than passive ways?

• Nietzsche and Nick Cave

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• New paper: The changing nature of social media and research impact

• What do staff need to be ready for AI integration? 

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• The pedagogical risks of generative AI: the problem of cognitive outsourcing

• Glow

• F. Scott Fitzgerald on the metaphysical horror of insomnia

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom