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...

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

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...

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.

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...

When it’s a rest day on #TDF2025 #cycling #TourDeFrance

Actual scenes of people trying to sleep across Glasgow! #Heatwave #ThisIsFine

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

Chickenpox massively sucks for toddlers. That’s it. That’s my chapter. #parenting #support

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?

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”

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'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

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?

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!

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

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!

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

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...)

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...

New blog post: Checking Data and Code in Repositories with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/chec... We show how our Papercheck tool can automatically check and list files in data repositories linked to in a scientific manuscript.

If you'd like to chat about Papercheck with some of our team members, @debruine.bsky.social will be at the Metascience conference, @crist14n.bsky.social will be at the open research summer school by @samwestwood.bsky.social , and @raphaelmerz.bsky.social will be at SIPS!

Imagine an #rstats 📦 that, along with a host of other features, crosschecks that the references exist & flags ones that are inconsistent with online databases. Papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ ) will be a great tool for improving the accuracy of information in reports & articles. Wow!

In our second blog post about Papercheck, we demonstrate some modules that check for @apajournals.bsky.social‬ JARS, such as reporting exact p-values and including effect sizes with inferential tests.

I was chatting with a colleague this morning who asked if we could use Papercheck to screen references for AI hallucinations. We can! The module isn't yet ready, but Papercheck reads references into a table that makes it easy to use the openalex() or crossref() functions to flag suspicious papers.

Q: If a student's project does not find support for their hypotheses, how should they present it at a conference, given that all would be null findings? Any tips on what they should focus on to generate useful discussions/feedback? Repost appreciated!

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Crazy when you think how much your safety in the world is determined by which arbitrary part of the globe you were born on. #friday #bluesky #OneWorld

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops! Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud! This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

Whilst online studies are great, particularly for large N, can't help think we lose something in our teaching if students don't create real world stim, or run participants in person, and all those challenges. Was my PhD (below) ground-breaking? No; but I inspired the Beastie Boys so there is that!

1. "Yeah, Ben AI might well be awful but it's coming and we can't stop it so we have to find ways it works for us." No. Actually we don't. We could quite easily say AI is an age inappropriate and developmentally dangerous technology and schools should lock it out.

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It’s a small thing in this world but I hate how Spotify is forcing pointless video recordings of all its podcasts on you!

A letter in the Guardian somehow suggests that the only two ways to assess students are exams and essays FFS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

At this point, I would suggest as a general rule that the greater the embrace of this kind of approach to generative AI, the less invested the institution is in students actually learning something or having genuinely meaningful experiences. Students beware. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

New paper. Trends in scientific writing. More noun chunks and sensational language. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New rule: If you are going to kvetch about students outsourcing the hard work of thinking to generative AI tools, you cannot in the next breath talk about how faculty can use the same AI tools to save time in their teaching, grading, or research. <aggressive eyeroll>

New blog post: on being transparent, and teaching students the critical thinking skills they need to evaluate generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

We are always looking for volunteers to take part in online studies for our undergraduate and postgraduate projects from Universities in Scotland. If you would like to take part please visit supp.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk and if you could also forward this message that would be much appreciated!

Giro d’Italia 2025 is going to make one hell of a film! #cycling #giro #GiroDItalia

Just discovered scrollytelling, an interactive way to tell stories with data. This blog post is full of great examples and techniques to get started. #dataviz vallandingham.me/scroll_talk/...

I find it curious how early students label, & limit, themselves as “qualitative” or “quantitative”. Always worthwhile reminding them they are foremost becoming “researchers” with the ability to appropriately apply an array of techniques to best answer their question. #Research #Methods #Teaching

Really interesting episode of #TeachingInHigherEd featuring @leonfurze.com on what Ai is and what Ai isn’t, and how to engage educators and students with Ai in an appropriate manner. Definitely worth a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1pCO... #podcast #HigherEducation #EduSky #AcademicSky #teaching

Really interesting episode of #TeachingInHigherEd featuring @leonfurze.com on what Ai is and what Ai isn’t, and how to engage educators and students with Ai in an appropriate manner. Definitely worth a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1pCO... #podcast #HigherEducation #EduSky #AcademicSky #teaching

For anyone else getting frustrated by CoPilot #Ai icons appearing in every #Microsoft app whether you want it or not, good to know you can actually turn it off in some places. This is for #Teams, in the settings. In case ye are “old fashioned” like myself! #AcademicSky