Phil McAleer

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!

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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!

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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

r/AskReddit u/RocketDraco24 • 17m 19 NSFW Do you prefer sex with or without a condor? why?

Call me a prude, but the beak and talons would scare me

The state of British media covering politics right now:

“Another u-turn by Labour, let’s go see what Reform, the eighth most important party in the House of Commons, think!”

Why?

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Come back, Clippy! All is forgiven!

A messed up image of a photo of me where the face has been colored completely navy blue and the shadows colored white. The jumper has been changed to white.

Me: "CoPilot, can you change the color of my jumper to navy blue?"
CoPilot: "Here’s the updated image with the jumper color accurately changed to navy blue"
Me: "yeah, no!"

Microsoft's #AI, #CoPilot, is basically Clippy in disguise!

Self-graded R and stats exercises for beginners!

Test your understanding of the material in our textbook (bit.ly/dss_textbook):

- Intro to R: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch1
- Intro to causal inference: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch2

Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning oSoTL is an open access and open peer review journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The ethos of the journal is collegiality and open scholarship, with the aim to make submissions as…

We are celebrating our 4th summer in style. With interesting articles from our archives under #oSoTLSummer. Please share widely and tag authors with everyone dispersed across different networks we lost track of your social media handles. #oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol1No1_21 osotl.org

I'm working on a research methods book, any recommendations for datasets related to psychology issues that I could use as a way to raise awareness?

The book will include sections on science literacy, data viz, some nuanced stats issues (difference between sig and nonsig...)