• 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

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

• The impending automation of grant writing

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

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

• Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

• Niklas Luhmann’s critique of organisational sociology

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?

• ChatGPT: How have different disciplines defined the campus in different way?

• Generative AI and the digital divide

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• Digital tools for each of the six learning types

• Some thoughts on generative AI

• ChatGPT: how could generative AI improve the flow of information within the unviersity system?

• How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• Generative AI and the future of universities: four sociological forecasts

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• Fully automated luxury universities

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• We are not the users of generative AI