• 📣 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

• 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

• 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