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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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Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12h ago

Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

AI and the amplification of academic content assetization

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…

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Ian Linkletter@linkletter.org · 14h ago

I found them! They are linked on Berkeley's website here classrooms.berkeley.edu/news/clarifi... h/t @other95.bsky.social Direct link to Turnitin's explanations of the proposed changes: view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...

Prof. Pam Birtill@diervilla.bsky.social · last mo.

Three!! teaching and research jobs in the lovely School of Psychology at the University of Leeds. Please pass on to anyone you know who might be interested. Its a lovely department, with great colleagues and some really interesting stuff going on jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology

Lecturer in Psychology x3School of Psychology These roles will be based on the university campus, with scope for them to be undertaken in a hybrid manner.   We are also open to discussing flexible wor...

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Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Abstract Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies via power analysis. However, 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 diverse research fields. Inaccurate effect size interpretations can lead to incorrect conclusions about the magnitude of study results and incorrect sample size estimates, thereby increasing 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 computing 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. 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.
Julia Strand@juliafstrand.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi all! Anybody know of recentish data on researcher perceptions of open science practices that ask questions like, "I think it's good for the field when studies are preregistered"? I found Houtkoop et al (2018) on data sharing, but am hoping for data on other practices and more recent!

Phil McAleer@philmcaleer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Does anyone know of any really good and open source genealogy websites or webtools? Just thinking with the development of tools to help source journal articles and their connections, this might be possible for tracing families. Any suggestions welcome.

James Bartlett@bartlettje.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was so lucky as Glasgow increased their paternity leave from 2 weeks to 4 weeks on January 1st. Part of me feels guilty as friends could not benefit from that. I genuinely don’t know how we would have coped if I had to go back after 2 weeks, so employers, sort yourselves out.

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 11mo ago

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Dr. Jonathan Firth@jwfirth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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...

Bridging the gap between pre-university and university psychology education in the UK: The role of the BPS Teacher’s Toolkit

Psychology is the second-most popular UK A-level subject (OFQUAL, 2025), the third-most popular UK degree subject, and is becoming increasingly taught in schools in many European countries, either...

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Phil McAleer@philmcaleer.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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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