This article focuses on the challenge that could be broadly termed as ‘the digitisation of academic work’. However, this article stresses the concrete composition of academic work without making any general presumptions regarding how the university looks at present. The article concludes that it makes not much sense any more to talk about academic practice in terms of humans or non-humans, material or digital, etc. Instead, perhaps it makes more sense to speak of actors in academic practice as being human-digital.