• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• The sensory pleasure of academic writing

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding

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

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and writing

• The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital Age

• The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

• Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

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

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

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

• Generative AI and the conspiracy to ensure the productivity of certain academics

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• Using reasoning models to support theory-building

• The first reviews of Generative AI for Academics have arrived

• A list of interesting Generative AI tools I want to explore

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• LLMs are rubber ducks that can talk back to you

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

• I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• Generative AI Beyond the Bubble: Looking Ahead to the 24/25 Academic Year

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• The weird poetry which ensues when Claude tries to read my handwriting

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• What will be left after the GenAI bubble bursts?

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Can you get Claude to explain why it refuses to insult you? An exploration of LLMs, guard rails and self-reference

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• You can now build and publish simple web apps using Claude

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

• Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

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

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• ChatGPT knows what MA DTCE stands for but Claude doesn’t

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

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

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year