• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

• “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• CFP: Generative AI Governance – Special Issues in Information, Communication & Society

• How do we visualise an assemblage?

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Why I don’t trust research comms agencies who contact individual academics

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Who actually reads this blog?

• If AI was like a hammer

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• I want to unfold

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Some thoughts on Bluesky

• Interview with me in VoltEdu about academic social media after Twitter

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• In defence of the lecture

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• 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

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

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

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

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

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Ontological and cultural humanism

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

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction