• I did an interview with the Omnishow about productivity, writing and creativity with Omnifocus

• My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

• How visible are you in the LLM?

• Claude’s final round up of my blogging

• ChatGPT’s final round up of my blogging

• A new academic and intellectual bio after an eventful year

• Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s June Blogging

• The violence of writing

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• ChatGPT’s Roundup of Mark’s May Blogging

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• New paper: The changing nature of social media and research impact

• The jouissance of writing

• ChatGPT’s roundup of Mark’s April blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

• What the blog categories reveal: a view from the inside

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• What Should Mark Do in April? A Debate Between Claude and GPT

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s March Blogging

• GPT 5.4’s roundup of Mark’s March blogging

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

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

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

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

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

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

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

• Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• An AI-Assisted Overview of My Research: Claude Reviews My Publication Record

• The first inbox zero in about six months

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• The last 10 ways I used Claude and ChatGPT

• I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading

• “Generative AI for Academics is a brisk, sensible map for using LLMs in scholarly life”

• How to stop e-mail dominating your life

• Why I don’t like recording events

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

• Lovely review of Generative AI for Academics

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

• Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

• A precarious sense of clarity about what work matters (and what doesn’t) as I get older

• 📣 Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are now available

• A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Readwise.io lets you talk to your notes and it’s amazing

• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• Webinar: Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way?

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• Are you overworking as an academic?

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice

• What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative AI?

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers