Alex Reid

I am extremely flattered to win the 'Supporting Student Voice, Activities and Partnership' award at the University of York Students'​ Union 2025 Excellence Awards. It wouldn’t be possible without our amazing students, reps and staff - teamwork! 🥳 💪

Psychology Teaching Review BPS Explore is our easy-to-access central location for you to read and download a wide range of psychological content from practitioners, researchers and working groups.

My Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year finalist case study has now been published. It focusses on collaborative work with alumni to develop employability skills and mitigate imposter syndrome in our students. A huge thank you to all my collaborators! explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpsptr

T-FUN (Teaching-Focused University Network) T-Fun (or T-FΨN) stands for Teaching-Focused University Network, a collaborative group of academics on teaching-focused pathways in Psychology and related disciplines. We aim to create a community of ...

Interested in learning more about great teaching and scholarship practice? Check out the new YouTube channel for the T-Fun (Teaching-Focussed University Network) with two great talks already posted! @t-fun.bsky.social m.youtube.com/@tfunnetwork

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Issue 20 of our student-run psychology magazine is out now! This issue is on Artificial Intelligence, and includes 8 articles, one interview with 'AI and risk' expert Prof. Rob Jenkins, and info on getting into clinical psychology: shorturl.at/N26BU

An accessible version is on our website :-)

Our Department’s student-run magazine is joining BlueSky, please retweet them and follow so they can share their work 😊

Our second featured nominee for DARTP Psychology Teacher of the Year award is, Dr @alexanderreid.bsky.social who is passionate about developing critical thinking skills in both his students and the public.

We now have 100 accounts in our University of York Starter Pack!

The number 100 has great cultural significance, but of course it's not THAT different to the 98 we were on before we added @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social and @jimleary.bsky.social - we're excited about it nevertheless.

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Enhancing research culture: A collaboration with Sense About Science This studentship is a collaboration between the University of York and Sense about Science (SaS), an independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and ensures evidence is reco...

Students, if interested, please consider applying to this paid summer internship working with myself and the science advacocy charity @senseaboutsci.bsky.social. Click here for more info: generationresearch.ac.uk/studentships... #SenseAboutScience

I also developed a Toolkit for anyone else interested in creating such an initiative at their own institution, it's pretty comprehensive - from project inception to lesson plans: shorturl.at/otpk8

Graduate Voices - YouTube Overview of the Graduate Voices Project We care about providing employability advice and support at York which is relevant and speaks to all of our students....

I am happy to be sharing the outcomes and Toolkit of an initiative I led called the Graduate Voices Project. Our students interviewed @york.ac.uk alumni from underrepresented backgrounds seeking advice they might have for others. Here is the playlist, please circulate. shorturl.at/8xQEf

Data Analysis Handbook - Critikid A guide to common errors in data analysis like selection bias, the clustering illusion, survivorship bias, and the base rate fallacy.

I've written a Data Analysis Handbook that explains 8 common errors in data analysis:

Selection Bias
Regression to the Mean
Correlation vs. Causation
Clustering Illusion
Gambler's Fallacy
Base Rate Fallacy
Survivorship Bias
Simpson's Paradox

It's short and simple and has examples of each one.

Really good advice here for #inclusion #AccessibleLearning #UDL

Alex Reid and Tabea-Maria in front of class of Year 6 students.

Children wearing vision Goggles.

We did a fun bit of psychology outreach today with the awesome kids at East Garforth Academy School in Leeds. A big thanks to my colleague Tabea-Maria Haase for her help with everything, particularly the pipe cleaner brain cells! #outreach #psychology

That’s more than okay, thank you for the follow 😊

It's lovely to get shortlisted for this, and congratulations to the other excellent candidates too.

Great work Stephanie!

Of course! Added 😊 CritKid sounds like an amazing initiative Stephanie.

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

New blogpost:
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This is awesome! Fantastic work by yourself and Megan.

Anatomy of the Brain My project is all about giving you a peek inside the human brain.The brain serves as a creative center, and our ideas originate through connections ...

Anatomy of the brain - a cool lego project that needs some votes on Lego Ideas to bring it to fruition! ideas.lego.com/s/p:60be6b96...

Also it added me to the list automatically - I don’t consider myself in the same league as any of these accounts!

I created a ‘starter pack’ for science advocacy and critical thinking, suggestions for further individuals and organisations welcome! go.bsky.app/5ByxT3z