• 📣 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

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• Generative AI for Academics

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• What’s been sticking in my eye? I got something sticking in my eye

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• When the earth opens up in front of you

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Current mood in AI generated images #14

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The radicalisation of landlords

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

• Paz Lenchantin’s cover of Venus in Furs

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• And maybe that’s what getting older is, an accumulation of loss that turns you into a different sort of person

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Have you used Social Media for Academics in your teaching or training?

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Current mood in AI generated images #13

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• Current mood in AI generated images #12

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• In a financialised economy raising interest rates actually causes inflation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• How to avoid shiny new thing syndrome

• The impact of the cost of living crisis on the educational experiences of international students

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• What Do Artificial Intelligence Systems Mean For Academic Practice?

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• The technological infrastructure of beatboxing

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• Current mood in AI generated images #11

• The ‘decided desire’ of the post-analysis neurotic