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Dr Helena Paterson
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of Glasgow & mum, she/her. Sharing #rstats #openscience #PsyTeachR, #DigitalEducation, #StudyDifference, #creativefamily #TeamUofG ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · Jan 10
News! #PsyTeachR is now on Bluesky. Find us for links to our Open Educational Resources, software and news about what we're up to.
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drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Really pleased with this chapter showing our teaching of reproducible workflows as a core skill for our students at all levels of study.
bartlettje.bsky.social James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our contribution to an upcoming book on teaching open science was "how to teach reproducible research". There are plenty of lesson plans or individual courses out there but less on how you can build skills across a whole degree.

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September 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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kalliverse.bsky.social
my first ever research study is public! In a study designed with the amazing @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social, I replicated the mere exposure effect with human sentences reading voices, uncovering an unexpected state of "familiarly unfamiliar" voices processed differently to familiar and unknown voices
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 7
The uncanny valley of familiarly unfamiliar voices: challenges in replicating the Mere Exposure Effect with voices: https://osf.io/8rmvf
September 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
Our argument is that you *can* embed reproducible research skills in every degree; you just need the right support in place. Your students might just surprise you in what they're capable of learning and valuing.

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September 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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philmcaleer.bsky.social
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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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...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network
Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...
www.psychologicalscience.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.
May 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Psych Stats Instructors: please consider participating in a 15-min anonymous survey about best practice and teaching methods. Closes May 31st. For details see: ryersonpsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Sharing appreciated!
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May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Great Q&A-type resource to reveal the hidden curriculum behind doing an MSc in the UK @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social's @philmcaleer.bsky.social
philmcaleer.bsky.social Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · May 6
I speak to a lot of undergraduate students who are interested in postgraduate study but don’t know where to start. This reminds me of myself & so I wanted to write “something” that would give people an idea of things to ask. Hope it helps: philmcaleer.github.io/thinkingmast...

#EduSky #HigherEd
Thinking about a Masters but not sure what to ask
philmcaleer.github.io
May 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Fantastic resource for understanding and calculating effect sizes. ⭐️⭐️
dsquintana.bsky.social Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · May 5
We just updated our preprint describing our 'ESDist' R package for calculating field-specific effect size distributions, which are useful for both interpretation & study planning. In this version we added options that can account for publication bias and effect size precision doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Abstract Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies using power analysis. But despite their wide usage, effect sizes are often misinterpreted. This is mostly due to an over-reliance on general effect size benchmarks that were not intended for broad application across a range of different research fields. Inaccurate effect size interpretations can consequently lead to incorrect conclusions regarding the magnitude of study results, as well as incorrect sample size estimates, which can increase the likelihood of false positive results. This article introduces the ESDist R package, which is designed to calculate empirically derived effect size benchmarks or a range of reliably detectable empirical effect sizes for a specific research question or field of interest by the calculation of effect size distributions (ESDs). This package can be used on data that can be easily extracted from pre-existing meta-analyses to help researchers more accurately plan new studies or to better understand how an individual study might relate to other studies in their field of interest. ESDist includes a set of features that make it easy to use in a priori power analysis. Moreover, the package includes a feature for estimating effect size benchmarks that account for publication bias and are weighted by effect sizes variances, which addresses existing limitations of using ESDs for study planning or interpretation. An overview of all main functions in the ESDist package Output of the esd_plot_pba() function showing an iceberg plot
May 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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✨ ✏️ The final meerkat sketches are ready!
Straight from the Open Science Retreat #OSR25 in 🇨🇭
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April 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
@philmcaleer.bsky.social @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social and I working on a project and went down the rabbit hole of working out how to get R to generate .Rmd file to use elsewhere. Here is a reproducible test case if you need this niche solution too!

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We wanted to create a series of .Rmd files based on a spreadsheet. This will be passed to a Quarto book/blog, but we wanted to generate entries based on responses to an online form. It took a surprisi...
We wanted to create a series of .Rmd files based on a spreadsheet. This will be passed to a Quarto book/blog, but we wanted to generate entries based on responses to an online form. It took a surpr...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
In our MSc stats course, we changed the feedback approach this year. We usually just give students a grade and class-level feedback. However, we used the great markr package by @debruine.bsky.social and I've shared a little example to supplement the package vignette: github.com/BartlettJE/m...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
UNESCO compendium of practices promoting open and inclusive science https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/inclusive-science/grid?hub=178646
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
On feedback for students: Even a top-graded student needs to know where to go next. There is always more up unless you're a mountaineer, but then the next thing is getting home safely.

Sharing my & @philmcaleer.bsky.social's words on feedback and the student's learning journey.
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In this article we share practical and evidence-based advice on framing assessment feedback around student development. The practices that we share are centred on two aspects of framing feedback. The first is in how feedback is generated and how the teacher can author effective feedback by making it personal, situated within the student’s learning journey and by providing actionable points for the next assignment. The second aspect that we share is the framing of feedback in relation to student reflection and use of the feedback, scaffolding the development of a dialogue between student and teacher, and helping the student to situate their assignment and feedback within their own wider learning journey. Ultimately, we want students to find feedback useful and for feedback to represent a positive interaction between teacher and student, but both teachers and students need tools that help them to create usable feedback.
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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shuhbillskee.bsky.social
Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
This is a fantastic set of resources to build flashcards for better learning. Includes flashcards for some of our @psyteachr.bsky.social books.

When I have 5 minutes there will be some playing...

#PsyTeachR
jeffreyrstevens.com Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · Dec 18
📦 {flashr} 0.2.0 is out! ⚡
{flashr} creates flashcards for learning #RStats functions or other things. The new version can extract R functions from R Markdown and #QuartoPub documents, which can be used to create flashcard decks.

Blogpost: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/flashr/

@quarto.org
GIF of flashcard slide deck from R for Data Science Chapter 1 showing terms and descriptions for geom_point(), ggplot(), and library(). flashr hex logo with lightning bolts striking the word flashr.
January 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
News! #PsyTeachR is now on Bluesky. Find us for links to our Open Educational Resources, software and news about what we're up to.
@psyteachr.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
On my way to Edinburgh where I'm doing a very short talk on teaching programming/reproducible research practices rapidly. We hear in psychology that students can't learn to programme or there's no time. I argue psychology students absolutely can providing the might support and content is available.
Gif of a talk for the Edinburgh Winter School. Discussing how psychology students are capable of learning programming skills - even on an accelerated one-year MSc conversion programme. Walks through the course overview, support available, and what's worked well vs not so well.
January 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
A little gathering for students across all of our MSc programmes to celebrate the end of the first semester! Including a speech by me for our group work prize, mince pies, and Christmas jumpers🎄
Winter gathering to celebrate MSc students. Eight people stood in a line with Christmas jumpers on.
December 5, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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uofgsotl.bsky.social
On Day 3 of the Advent calendar, we look at Peer Support and Assessment, with a blog post on peer support for postgraduate dissertations and a poster exploring peer assessment in a first-year chemistry lab: uofgsotl.blog/day-3-peer-a...
Day 3: Peer Assessment & Support - #UofGSoTL
On Day 3 of the Advent calendar, we have a blog post on peer support for postgraduate dissertations and a poster exploring peer assessment in a first year chemistry lab. Back to main page Lead editor:...
uofgsotl.blog
December 4, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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uofgsotl.bsky.social
On Day 2 of the SoTL Advent Calendar we turn our attention to Podcasting and a reflective piece on insights gained from a group podcast project conducted by some of our UoG economics students. For our Christmas song, we go with Ella Fitzgerald and White Christmas... ❄️☃️
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Day 2: Podcasting - #UofGSoTL
On Day 2 of the Advent calendar, we turn our attention from generative AI to the use of podcasting. Students from the University of Glasgow reflect on their experience of group podcasting and the key ...
uofgsotl.blog
December 3, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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uofgsotl.bsky.social
Welcome to Day 1 of our SoTL Advent Calendar: uofgsotl.blog/12-days-of-s...

We kick things off with a blog post on 'Illuminating the Intersections of Generative AI, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity'. And a calming version of 'Silent Night' by The King's Singers. 🎄🕯️
12 Days of SoTL 2024 - #UofGSoTL
Day 01 Day 02 Day 03 Day 04 Day 05 Day 06 Day 07 Day 08 Day 09 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 The SoTL Advent Calendar Editors wish you all peace, good health, and a well-earned break when it comes!
uofgsotl.blog
December 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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lakens.bsky.social
New ManyBabies large scale replication study fails to find support for a classic finding by Hamlin and colleagues from 2007 that babies prefer characters that show prosocial behavior. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 1, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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openacademia.bsky.social
#OpenScience promotes transparency, collaboration & accessibility in #research by making publications, data, methods & tools openly available, fostering public engagement & evidence-based policy-making to drive global knowledge sharing & innovation. 🤝

🌐 Open Science will revolutionize research.
November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM