Andrew Berry, PhD

Let's go, #CSCW2025! With the virtual and in-person conference only *days* away, we've got more new members onboard in the Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/SPumuMT

Please welcome:
@rachelfadler.bsky.social
@riyasinha.bsky.social
@nsehgal.bsky.social
@preranak15.bsky.social
@francoisch.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥

As National Suicide Prevention Month concludes, we want to highlight Dr. Jonah Meyerhoff who has led multiple research trials on suicide prevention. 💜 He established a 4-week intervention, PlanSafe, to create personalized safety plans.
Read more here: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e69602/

We followed a similar pattern, (successfully so far). Our bridge from an acute hospitalization to long term care was a 10-day stay in memory care made possible by a caregiver respite grant. That got our foot in the door for longer term memory care.

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

This is a fantastic resource for students applying to clinical/counseling programs this cycle: A list of PIs, organized by areas of research, accepting students!

Please share widely!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The irony of posting quotes about the importance of sharing one’s real voice…it’s a nice little kick for me to keep working to know who I am (and am becoming) and to share that with you and the others alongside me.

“The reality is that your voice does not really resonate in the world until someone hears it, and the more you distort your voice, the less we really hear from you.”

“Human literacy is quite helpful, though, because living a life consciously — with real connection to interpreting and creating the poetic for whatever it is that life sets in front of us — is a far more important skill for life satisfaction than slotting words correctly for a chatbot.”

Check out "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale," an open-access article exploring "AIPasta," written by a team of @cip.uw.edu researchers led by @dashsaloni.bsky.social with co-authors @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social ⤵️

I included you in the original list! Sorry you weren’t able to attend. It’s such a rough time.

I started a list in case anyone wants to follow. Let me know if I missed you! bsky.app/profile/did:...

ISRII exceeded my expectations! It blends clinical scientific methods, evidence-based intervention development, and iterative and grounded human-centered design research. Thanks to organizers, presenters, and attendees for contributing to a vibrant, stimulating event @isrii.bsky.social

The One Quality Most ‘Super-Agers’ Share

SuperAgers are a diverse bunch; they don’t share a magic diet, exercise regimen or medication. But the one thing that does unite them is “how they view the importance of social relationships,” says Sandra Weintraub in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

Dr. Rua M. Williams is recruiting robotics researchers at all levels for participation in a virtual learning series on disability-centered research design in human-robot interaction. https://tinyurl.com/counterHRI

Researcher Recruitment

Participants will be enrolled in a 6-month course (approx. 3 hours of work per month) on disability issues in research design and will be supported by a growing community of researchers interested in transformation of the field.

tinyurl.com/counterHRI

Hey ISRII attendees! Come see our panel
today at 2 pm: Navigating Practical, Ethical, and Epistemic Tensions in Applying HCD Methods in Clinical Science Research, with @eagapie.bsky.social @bessner.bsky.social @emilylattiephd.bsky.social and Petr Slovak

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Kornfield, PhD, on receiving the 2025 Rising Star Award from the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions! @isrii.bsky.social

💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025:
cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Thanks for making this list! Could you please add me?

Blue and orange watercolor background with a light rounded rectangle. Inside, text reads: Today is the 35th Anniversary of the ADA! The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a law that protects the rights of people with disabilities. The disability community fought hard to get the ADA passed into law, and we continue to fight hard to protect it.

Today is the 35rd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most important civil rights laws for disabled people. Celebrate the anniversary of the ADA by reading up on your rights with our Easy Read and plain language toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/policy/toolk...

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Check out the new CBITs website! Collectively we’re doing lots of significant, impactful research in digital mental health. #HCI #UI #UX #HCD #digitalhealth

And then when you tap into the evergrowing popularity of people using ChatGPT for emotional support and therapy, you’re surely going to get a more personalized, more frank conversation when data is added in there too. “We believe that understanding emotions is a force multiplier for AI, in terms of it being effective for you in the context of wearing glasses all day,” Steen commented. “If you want AI to be really effective for you, it’s critical that it understands how you’re feeling in real-time, in response to different things that are happening around you.” It sounds creepy on paper, and it kind of is when you think about it. But it’s certainly a gateway into real emotional honesty that you may not get by rationalizing with yourself in a journal app and possibly glazing over any cracks in your mental health when filling out that survey for the day.

Cannot be overstated that the dominant project for people boosting this tech is to convince users that they can’t trust their own senses and they should give their body over to the machine.

There are two images together. On the left is the cover of a collection of essays titled "Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity," co-edited by Jess Reia, MC Forelle and Yingchong Wang in 2025. The cover features an orange and teal design with an abstract pattern at its center. On the right, the table of contents featuring dozens of authors divided into four sections.

ICYMI: Our new collection of essays, “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity,” is out! ✨ Download it here: doi.org/10.18130/03d.... Offering some responses & asking more questions, we cover topics like arts administration, data centers, digital sovereignty, sustainability & more.

Join us for ISA in 2026! The curriculum includes a session I lead on human centered design + implementation science. We had a generative and thought provoking discussion this year.

Thank you, Mina Lee, for a highly informative and thought provoking talk today at @hcidnorthwestern.bsky.social on the design space for AI to support writing! @mnlee.bsky.social

Looking forward to thinking through this volume. Many intersections between my research interests in care and repair ethics + the experiences most salient to me now (precarity in funding/career; parenting & disability)

Great thread on the non-neutrality of science, technology, and mathematics. For more on this, go read some Melvin Kranzberg, @merbroussard.bsky.social, @histoftech.bsky.social , and issues of The Journal of @4sweb.bsky.social, @sthv.bsky.social, Techné, and more at your local library, today! :D

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern (Gift Article) The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Colin is smiling, standing in a brightly lit living room holding a copy of Universal Methods of Ethical Design.

I'm excited to announce the official publication of our book, Universal Methods of Ethical Design with co-author Sai Shruthi Chivukula! We hope it inspires a new generation of designers in being more ethically aware and able to act.

You can purchase the book here: geni.us/UMED/

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...