• What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

• Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• A case study of scholarly abundance: Asexuality Studies

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

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

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

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

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

• 90% of books sell less than 2000 copies and 50% sell less than 12 companies

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

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

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• Science and scholarship in a changing Europe, July 3rd

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• The first and second wave of viral publishers

• Vice’s ‘non-traditional’ working environment

• Staying small in order to grow

• A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

• An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

• The dynamics of discipline formation

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

• The proliferation of books

• Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

• Bounded autonomy in the workplace

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• What is ‘the literature’?

• A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

• A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• why are we not boycotting academia.edu?

• digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

• What will micro-publishing look like in higher education?

• Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

• Using blogs to publish working papers

• Fast capitalism and peer review

• The academic blogosphere, scholarly craft and the end of ‘pluralistic ignorance’

• The Faux Underdogs of the Digital Economy

• The Privacy of Public Sociology

• Using Slideshare and Prezi to disseminate your work

• Perverse Incentives in Scholarly Publishing

• Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) 2014: 23 to 25 July 2014, Leicester, UK.

• Some reflections on editing books and special issues while doing a PhD

• First they mashed up the book, then they massacred its author: reply to Ewan Morrison