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University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · 15h

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. 💙 🩷

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

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University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · 22h

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

Content Advisory: baby loss and miscarriage

YouTube video by University of Glasgow

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 20

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! 😉

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niamhestack.bsky.social @niamhestack.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

Well worth a read ahead of the new academic year

Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Jul 22

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.

CRAN Package Updates Bot @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · Jul 22

New CRAN package ConversationAlign with initial version 0.2.0
#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

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Jul 15

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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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 15

When it’s a rest day on #TDF2025

#cycling #TourDeFrance

a chimpanzee is laying down on a book and pointing at it .

ALT: a chimpanzee is laying down on a book and pointing at it .

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 11

Actual scenes of people trying to sleep across Glasgow!

#Heatwave #ThisIsFine

James Mcavoy Sweating GIF

ALT: James Mcavoy Sweating GIF

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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 6

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. 😬👍

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 6

Chickenpox massively sucks for toddlers.

That’s it. That’s my chapter.

#parenting #support

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Jul 4

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?

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jul 4

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!

PsyTeachR

Psychologists from @UofGPsychNeuro advocating open, reproducible methods teaching.

psyteachr.github.io

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · Jul 4

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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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · Jul 3

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!

Introduction to R for Researchers

Learning how to use R/RStudio for reproducible data analysis.

bartlettje.github.io

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jun 27

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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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Come back, Clippy! All is forgiven!

a paper clip with big eyes is standing in a green field

ALT: a paper clip with big eyes is standing in a green field

media.tenor.com

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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · Jun 26

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!

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.

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