Phil McAleer

Let’s be honest, not even Ai can figure out how to reclaim travel expenses at a Uni!

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News just in from Reviewer 5: youtu.be/UzPh89tD5pA?...

ps - good luck! :-)

I'm happy to announce a new and improved version of my quarto revealjs extension that interfaces with roughnotation

More annotation types, fragment support, works with flourish extension to allow for annotations of code chunks, and reverse animations are all here

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

At this rate you got to get good odds on Kemi Badenoch defecting to Reform by mid February, blaming the lack of leadership in the Tory party!

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

I’ve just published {typeR}, a small R package that lets you simulate live typing. It prints code
To install:
devtools::install_github("fgazzelloni/typeR")

If you teach or demo R, I’d love your feedback on how it works for you. #rstats #rpackages

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"It was good enough in our day!"

Why is my first reaction, "Wow! There goes the fun of random number guessing! (sad face)" What is wrong with me!!! 😂

Valuable article, 'Bridging the gap between pre-university and university psychology education in the UK: The role of the BPS Teacher’s Toolkit' – www.bera.ac.uk/blog/bridgin...

The University of Glasgow Main Building and Tower at night lit blue and pink to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week

This week, our tower will be lit blue and pink to mark #BabyLossAwarenessWeek 9-15 October.  

Sending love to anyone in our community who has been affected by pregnancy or baby loss.  

You're not alone. 💙 🩷

YouTube video by University of Glasgow Content Advisory: baby loss and miscarriage

CA: miscarriage

This #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, we highlight our commitment to supporting colleagues who have experienced baby loss.

UofG's Emma & Phil discuss their experience of miscarriage and the new UofG guidance on baby loss & fertility treatment.

glasgow.ac.uk/babylossguidance

Would explain why my MRI studies on threat perception never worked; we were looking in the amygdala not the Amygdala! Silly us!

How professional cycling can teach Higher Education to navigate AI Phil McAleer and Helena Paterson, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow Reading Time: Approximately 5-10 minutes. In the 1990s the world of cycling finally woke up to the realis...

If you've ever wondered what 1990s #cycling can teach us, in 2025, about incorporating #AI into #HigherEducation, this article on LinkedIn from @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social & myself is the very one for you! All comments welcome!

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...

Thanks Niamh! Really appreciate that.

I am still a bit sorry I couldn’t quite get to use my “Lycr-AI” pun, but the article is probably better for it! 😉

Interesting and thoughtful article from @philmcaleer.bsky.social & @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social

Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year

How professional cycling can teach Higher Education to navigate AI Phil McAleer and Helena Paterson, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow Reading Time: Approximately 5-10 minutes. In the 1990s the world of cycling finally woke up to the realis...

If you've ever wondered what 1990s #cycling can teach us, in 2025, about incorporating #AI into #HigherEducation, this article on LinkedIn from @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social & myself is the very one for you! All comments welcome!

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...

Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" If Books Could Kill · Episode

Great episode of one of the best podcasts, #IfBooksCouldKill, covering aspects of psychology like first impressions, thin slicing, social priming, bias, Bargh & Bem, as well as a sprinkling of reproducibility. Fun to hear an external sceptical take on these studies. open.spotify.com/episode/2hcN...

Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.

Britons are more regular swearers than Australians or Americans, but what are their top swear words?

Britons
F*ck: 67% use regularly
Sh*t: 65%
Bloody: 54%

Australians
Sh*t: 61%
F*ck: 56%
Bullsh*t: 52%

Americans
Damn: 55%
Sh*t: 54%
F*ck: 47%

👇 more in chart below

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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When it’s a rest day on #TDF2025

#cycling #TourDeFrance

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Actual scenes of people trying to sleep across Glasgow!

#Heatwave #ThisIsFine

What this also shows is that it would be trivial for Open AI to solve the cheating problem. It’s not an inevitable consequence of the technology but a business choice

Yeah we are on day four or five and hoping the peak comes soon. Poor wee guy is covered in them! And to top it off, it was his birthday! Can def see why you would get the vaccine. We considered it. Too late now; just got to ride it out now. 😬👍

Chickenpox massively sucks for toddlers.

That’s it. That’s my chapter.

#parenting #support

Hi #EconSky! I will be teaching intro statistics with #rstats next academic year. Any suggestions for free learning resources for students and/or teaching materials?

PsyTeachR Psychologists from @UofGPsychNeuro advocating open, reproducible methods teaching.

You are more than welcome to have a look at our PsyTeachR materials to see if any of that is of use: psyteachr.github.io It is all cc-by with links to source code on GitHub. Any questions just ask here or current leads on each book are listed as well. Good luck!

being a statistician with anxiety is funny because professionally you’re all “I love uncertainty, it’s the best, such fun” and then in real life it’s “no I’m sorry I cannot deal with uncertainty right now I am having a breakdown”

I'm off to York St John to run an R workshop. We will cover reproducible documents using Quarto, data visualisation, and data wrangling. The materials are here if you're interested: bartlettje.github.io/Intro_R_Rese...

I love running workshops, and I'm available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs!

I'll be giving an unconference session at #MetaScience today at 14:00 on Papercheck. It will be a workshop on using and creating modules to detect (and correct) scientific practice and reporting. Come along if you're interested in how to use or contribute. No coding expertise required beyond using R

I worry about an outright ban of #AI use in Higher Education as much as I worry about the blind adoption of #AI. Much like anything in life, finding a balanced and appropriate approach usually benefits everyone.

#HigherEducation #Teaching #University