• 📣 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

• This country is nothing but an offshore laundry for turning evil into hard currency

• How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

• I don’t control life, but I control how I react to it

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• What is a ‘quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

• I get overwhelmed

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• A painting of a capybara in the style of starry night

• ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

• How can academics use ChatGPT to make their work easier?

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• And I never saw you waving, at least that’s what I’ll say

• But when it starts to sink I’ll grab the wheel, I’ll keep on steering for you

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• Generative AI and the future of universities: four sociological forecasts

• All I know is I forgot how to be me

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• Fully automated luxury universities

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• I’ve been taking some time to be distant, I’ve been taking some time to be still

• The Tale of Jenny & Screech

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• “You turned into who you are? I did too”: the love letters of Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• And I met you between the wax and the needle in the words of my favourite song

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• Artificial intelligence and educational centralisation

• I was far too scared to hit him, but I would hit him in a heartbeat now

• Epitaph on a Tyrant

• Words are for those with promises to keep