• On platform and agency

• In defence of the lecture

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #21

• Music that is helping me finish my book #3

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• If Librarians Were Honest, by Joseph Mills

• ChatGPT’s advice on examining student essays for evidence of generative AI

• On sociological cynicism about AI

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Building the Post-Pandemic University – 24th October, 2pm-3pm GMT

• Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter

• Current mood in AI generated images #20

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #19

• Digital Sociology ECR workshop – Dec 14th-15th in Belgrade

• Call for Proposals – Posthumanism and Media Studies

• CfP: The Realist Approach to AI

• With this pain I’d rather paint and try to turn this broken picture into something that it ain’t

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• Who does the thinking? The role of generative AI in higher education

• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

• Generative AI, the threat of automation and the treatment/diagnosis link

• Current mood in AI generated images #18

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• 📍Help us build grassroots community media in Manchester

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #16

• Memorial to Margaret Archer at the 2023 IACR conference

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Podcast: the future of the post-pandemic university

• 9 ways to use use conversational agents as a tool for thinking rather than a substitute for thought

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• Another GAI hallucinated book which I really want to write

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• Using generative AI to summarise conversations in order to feed them into future projects

• The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• GenAIEdu 2023: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education conference, Ulster University, Derry

• Music that is helping me finish my book #2

• I didn’t come looking for love, I didn’t come to pick a fight

• RIP Sam. I can’t believe it’s been 11 years.

• Music that is helping me finish my book #1

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

• A video reflection for the IACR 2023 Margaret Archer memorial session

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Cinemas as cultural temples

• Generative AI and the frictionless digital brain

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• Talk to my bot about my work

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

• “I think if you start writing a book and you don’t feel as if you’re drowning it’s not worth doing”

• Current mood in AI generated images #15

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• Generative AI for Academics

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Possibly my favourite part of being an academic

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• What’s been sticking in my eye? I got something sticking in my eye

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• When the earth opens up in front of you

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• Current mood in AI generated images #14

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Beneath the waves an ocean

• The radicalisation of landlords

• Personal change as paradigm shift

• The powerful cultural pull to the right which has been felt in parts of the left

• Paz Lenchantin’s cover of Venus in Furs

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• And maybe that’s what getting older is, an accumulation of loss that turns you into a different sort of person

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Have you used Social Media for Academics in your teaching or training?

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Current mood in AI generated images #13

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education