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

• 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

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

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

• 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?

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

• Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

• Calendar fragility in hybrid workplaces

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Taking the AGI pill

• What if universities no longer existed?

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

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

• Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• The origin of the phrase publish or perish

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

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

• Call for Book Proposals: University Reimagined

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

• The rebranding of University of Bolton

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

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

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• 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

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on The Nowhere Office, by Julia Hobsbawm

• My notes on Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion

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

• Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

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

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

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• Epistemic flooding

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

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

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

• If you want another reason to dislike Turnitin

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

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

• Adam Tooze on the sweaty muscularity of state power

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?

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

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

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

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

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

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• The Role of Professional Bodies in the Development of Sociology

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

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

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• What will the automated university look like?

• How the concept of platform shaped my research