Phil McAleer
@philmcaleer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Focussed on the scholarship of teaching and learning around statistics, data skills, research methods, and assessment and feedback. Dable in voice perception.
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Phil McAleer
@philmcaleer.bsky.social
· May 6
Thinking about a Masters but not sure what to ask
philmcaleer.github.io
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
#EduSky #HigherEd
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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. 💙 🩷
Sending love to anyone in our community who has been affected by pregnancy or baby loss.
You're not alone. 💙 🩷
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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. 💙 🩷
Sending love to anyone in our community who has been affected by pregnancy or baby loss.
You're not alone. 💙 🩷
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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
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
Content Advisory: baby loss and miscarriage
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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October 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
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
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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
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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Interesting and thoughtful article from @philmcaleer.bsky.social & @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year
Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year
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...
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...
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...
www.linkedin.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Interesting and thoughtful article from @philmcaleer.bsky.social & @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year
Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year
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...
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...
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...
www.linkedin.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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...
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...
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...
Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink"
If Books Could Kill · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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...
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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.
New CRAN package ConversationAlign with initial version 0.2.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=ConversationAlign
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=ConversationAlign
CRAN: Package ConversationAlign
Imports conversation transcripts into R, concatenates them into a single dataframe appending event identifiers, cleans and formats the text, then yokes user-specified psycholinguistic database values to each word. 'ConversationAlign' then computes alignment indices between two interlocutors across each transcript for >40 possible semantic, lexical, and affective dimensions. In addition to alignment, 'ConversationAlign' also produces a table of analytics (e.g., token count, type-token-ratio) in a summary table describing your particular text corpus.
cran.r-project.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
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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...
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...
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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...
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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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
One thing that is underdiscussed around AI and education is how much AI chat interfaces are setup to default to helping students cheat. It's also really easy to prompt them not to do this. Compare standard ChatGPT's answer to a custom prompt that tells the AI to make the student think critically
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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”
July 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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”
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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 love running workshops, and I'm available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs!
Introduction to R for Researchers
Learning how to use R/RStudio for reproducible data analysis.
bartlettje.github.io
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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 love running workshops, and I'm available for birthdays and bar mitzvahs!
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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
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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
#HigherEducation #Teaching #University
June 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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
#HigherEducation #Teaching #University
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Call me a prude, but the beak and talons would scare me
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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?
“Another u-turn by Labour, let’s go see what Reform, the eighth most important party in the House of Commons, think!”
Why?
June 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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?
“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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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
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
June 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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
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
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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!
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June 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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!
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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
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…
osotl.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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
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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...)
The book will include sections on science literacy, data viz, some nuanced stats issues (difference between sig and nonsig...)
June 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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...)
The book will include sections on science literacy, data viz, some nuanced stats issues (difference between sig and nonsig...)
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Nearly there #UKCOTS2025! Looking forward to meeting everyone at the pre-conference social on Monday. Just need to make sure I make the registration desk for 8am on Tuesday...
We have almost reached #UKCOTS2025!
We hope everyone has safe travels and remember to check out the delegate information section of the website for advice on travel and social events: www.ukcots.org/delegates.html
We hope everyone has safe travels and remember to check out the delegate information section of the website for advice on travel and social events: www.ukcots.org/delegates.html
UKCOTS 25 - Delegate Information – UKCOTS 25
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June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Nearly there #UKCOTS2025! Looking forward to meeting everyone at the pre-conference social on Monday. Just need to make sure I make the registration desk for 8am on Tuesday...