Andrea Howard

Whether we like the term or not, it’s true that being a researcher/educator is a deliberate choice and requires different priorities than a typical industry job imo.

But Aaron you don’t need money when your career is a “calling” 🫠

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.

metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

I like the list of authors who have committed to participating in the special issue, like “hey look this is legitimate! Here are some names you may have heard of!”

If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.

H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless

Good morning! As an addiction scientist and clinical psychology PhD candidate writing their dissertation on compulsive alcohol use: THIS IS GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED.

Moral conceptualizations of addiction and mental health lead to shame and bad outcomes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/h...

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Big news, dorks: We're going NATIONAL! Join us for our National Day of Action on March 7th in Washington DC, or at one of our satellite rallies across the US. We're taking back our science, health, and democracy!

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New paperAlert! We show that generative AI can quantitatively assess personality from brief, open-ended text—with surprising accuracy. 🧠✨

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postprint (pending mod approval): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Not glib ENOUGH

Seeing our shadow tomorrow…

It's Groundhog Day and the rodent/crustacean experts are split! According to CBC this morning:
- Shubenacadie Sam predicted an early spring.
- Lucy the Lobster in N.S.: early spring.
- Fred la marmotte in Quebec: early spring.
- Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania, predicted 6 more weeks of winter.

The psychological consequences of mental health awareness efforts - Nature Reviews Psychology Mental health awareness campaigns aim to decrease stigma, increase help-seeking and improve mental health literacy. However, they might also negatively impact how individuals interpret, label and resp...

New review paper led by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social: Mental health awareness campaigns reduce stigma but can also lead to problematic self-diagnosis and symptom misinterpretation. These trade-offs matter, especially for adolescents.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

But the location of the range of the moderator where the CI for the slope crosses zero is still potentially interesting. E.g. if even at low power, say, the effect of X on Y is >0 when M is > or <some value.

Why aren’t they useful for bilinear interactions?

And Kingsley *Shacklebolt*

If you need a reminder why we all decided to make science friends on the internet, here’s Daniel asking for help with a weird coding problem and the conclusion of the replies is the R package maintainer/developer fixing the problem in his spare time 🫡❤️🤗

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”

Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

You took WHAT with WHOM?!?!?

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I fully concur

The morale is decidedly NOT improving today. Catherine O’Hara is a damn national treasure 😭🇨🇦

😭😭😭😭

It’s not a thing my kids ever did but I hope it catches on

Recent paper to read on this:

By @jinxungoh.bsky.social and team.

drive.google.com/file/d/1_MbT...

Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia.

Worth your time.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One month left for our ML competition to predict depression onset, in a massive dataset we collected over 5 years, including EMA and passive sensing data.

We have nearly 200 signups already, very excited to share our data and see who can fit the best models!

www.codabench.org/competitions...

Does the Use of Crowdsourced Listeners Yield Different Speech Intelligibility Results Than In-Person Listeners for Typically Developing Children? Purpose: We examined the performance of crowdsourced listeners compared with in-person listeners on the measurement of speech intelligibility for...

if you want to know how to compute marginal means from a mixed effects model in brms using rvars, then have I got a supplemental materials document for you pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Psychopathy researchers i need your help! I am teaching a class on psychopathy and want to show videos of interviews. Anyone have some good, publicly available examples I can use?

Excited to share this wonderful video of the amazing people I work with. The Survey Resesrch Center (SRC) @umich.edu is a vibrant community of scholars and staff with 141 faculty, 345 staff, and over 300 interviewers across the U.S. #WeAreSRC @um-src.bsky.social

Can we please, just for a moment, focus on the guns that are killing our kids and not their phones.