• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• Opus 4.7 is capable of utterly devastating theoretical critique

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

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

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

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

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

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

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

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

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

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

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

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Audiobook listening as scholarship

• Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

• The self-importance of researchers

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

• The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

• Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

• The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• blogging as an outboard brain

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 1

• How to use @Artefact_Cards for academic writing

• Treating ideas with seriousness: @DLittle30 on social media and scholarship

• Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

• The intellectual legitimacy of academic blogging

• Trying to “evade the academic literature”

• “Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind”: Jack Kerouac, creativity and academic writing

• Continuous Publishing and Being an Open-Source Academic