• New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

• Do we need a horizon scanning infrastructure for AI in higher education?

• The platitudes about generative AI in higher education are getting tedious

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• Encouraging language model to express themselves

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• 📣 CfP: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Balancing Equity, Access, and Innovation

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

• 👾 Three Years On: Generative AI at University of Manchester

• Turning ChatGPT into the control room of a user’s digital life

• Call For Papers & Registration: Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered

• Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

• A relational sociology of large language models in education

• Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• 4 reasons why Copilot is a poor alternative to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• The embodied experience of writing

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

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

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• 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

• Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive writing

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

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

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

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

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• Two reviews of Generative AI for Academics

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

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

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

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• 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 in the charity sector

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

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

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

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

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• The Deepfake Detection test

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

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

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

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

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• 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

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

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

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

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

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

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

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Socio-epistemic bubbles as the ubiquitous tacit structures of knowledge production

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• 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