• Are you overworking as an academic?

• What if universities no longer existed?

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

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• My notes on The Nowhere Office, by Julia Hobsbawm

• My notes on Digital minimalism, by Cal Newport

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

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

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

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

• “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

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

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

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• In defence of the lecture

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

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

• The impending automation of grant writing

• Industrial action and the broken funding system in higher education

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

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

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

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

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

• Curiosity is tiring and thought-stopping cliches are energy conserving

• Fully automated luxury universities

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• Learned societies and national conferences

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Too much Zoom in the post-pandemic university

• How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

• Why has social media become so grim?

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• What Microsoft Teams is and what it could be

• The comfort of ideas

• Why do we tweet?

• Resources for organising online conferences

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• Work in the Digital Society

• Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

• 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique