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  • 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

  • Copilot saving time for individuals does not mean Copilot saves time for organisations

  • Philosophy is what is left over when you bracket out common sense and expertise

  • The risks of integrating AI too rapidly into higher education

  • How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

  • Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

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

  • 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

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