• 📣 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

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination

• I Ain’t Scared of Lightning

• Nick Cave on sobriety

• The Entangled Forest

• I’m transforming, I’m vibrating, look at me now

• Are universities too slow to cope with Generative AI?

• On losing what we never possessed

• It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• The “when-I-finally” mindset

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• How do we inventory the use of generative AI in different areas of activity?

• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

• What will generative AI mean for digital methods?

• Ain’t this just like the present to be showing up like this?

• Tristan Harris on the AI Dilemma

• On rushing and apophatic reflexivity

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Three White Horses and a Golden Chain

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• The problem with falling in love in late-night bars is that there’s always more nights, there’s always more bars

• Looked the devil in his face like, “Motherfucker, do your worst”

• Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

• What is diagnosis?

• Chat-GPT: Write the communist manifest but in favour of capitalism

• Chat-GPT: write me an Eminem song about cats

• AI and Assessment: ChatGPT and the Future of Education

• How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?

• The career trajectory of Jon Stewart

• The rarely seen fourth verse of Gangster’s paradise

• Asking technosceptical questions

• Will generative AI kill discovery?

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• Birdsong

• Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

• Not with a bang but a whimper

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• 📍Generative AI and the Future of the University: Three Events at the University of Manchester

• A poem about generative AI and its impact on universities in the style of Dr Seuss

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• Obama the Blairite moderniser

• Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

• The unity of dread and bliss

• “You can’t change the past but you can make the future. Anyone who tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil”

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• The death of participatory media

• In all its longings and hesitations, the shape of what you lived

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction