• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• What impact is the AI crisis having on public perception of a degree’s value?

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

• We need structural changes to assessment rather than discursive changes

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• New paper: The changing nature of social media and research impact

• What do staff need to be ready for AI integration? 

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• The pedagogical risks of generative AI: the problem of cognitive outsourcing

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

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

• UCU’s 10 principles for AI

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

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

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

• What do we mean by responsible AI? A panel discussion

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• The two tier future of LLM-infused higher education

• CfP: Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• What are Reform UK’s policies for higher education?

• Certified AI-Free Skills and Knowledge: doing all work in person, offline and on paper

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• 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?

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

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• What if universities no longer existed?

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

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

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

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

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

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

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

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• 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

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

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

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

• How much are academics paid in different national systems?

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

• What will the automated university look like?

• The looming crisis in higher education

• Artificial intelligence and educational centralisation

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• Higher education and the individualization of COVID-19

• Higher education as self-formation

• Automation and the reproduction of knowledge

• How many professors are part of the 1%?

• Unbundling the university

• The Platform University

• The coming supply crisis in UK higher education

• The promise of university bureaucracy: academic neoliberalism as project rather than outcome

• The coming big data revolution within higher education

• The Polysemic University

• The ambivalent promise of higher education

• The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

• The Place That Sends You Mad

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

• The Second Accelerated Academy

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• How will social media transform #highered?

• The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

• Notes on the Uberisation of Doctoral Education

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• some thoughts about the accelerated academy

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• the chronopolitics of commitment in higher education

• the intensification of work and the notion of work/life balance

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• registration now open: power, acceleration and metrics in academic life

• the origins of digital capitalism 

• The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• social media and academic freedom

• using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

• using snapchat in higher education

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• How connected is your university to the arms trade?

• Two UCU member sacked for allegedly leaking information about the V-C to the press