• 📣 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

• I did a half marathon in a storm yesterday

• The obscure moon lighting an obscure world

• The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

• UCU’s 10 principles for AI

• Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

• The objects which haunt us

• Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence

• Hello Spring

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

• What am I? I am only dust in this light

• Things I’ve learned about life from a year of distance running

• I have waited here, under the stars for the longest time

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Together we can make hope normal again

• The internal tensions facing Reform before the next election

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• Sex as the things we cannot say

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• Claude Code GitHub commits over time

• From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

• LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

• Unlike the saints, we have no use for angels

• If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• To work and to build, to connect, and create

• The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

• What Should Mark Do in March? A Dialogue Between Claude and GPT

• GPT 5.4’s round up of Mark’s February blogging

• On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

• The victory over winter, which is coming, must come, perhaps has already come…

• Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

• Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• ☀️Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits

• The AI-productivity pay off is here and it’s slightly terrifying

• The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• How can I make sad music if I’m not sad anymore?

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: The jagged frontier of agentive AI and the risks of sociological prompt injection

• An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

• The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

• Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency