Andrea Howard

New paper from me, out soon in Behavior Research Methods: I'm a lil bit obsessed with good online recruitment and the result is this side-quest paper that made use of data we had collected that recruited people online in three ways (met them on Zoom, validated their email, and Prolific). 🧵>>

I am happy to announce that @psychscience.bsky.social will have a special event at our May 2027 Meeting in Seattle. Greg Hancock and Patrick Curran of the QUANTITUDE podcast will be joining us to answer your questions on quantitative methods. What quant methods questions would you ask them?

Curtains for zoosha???

Would you believe that now we’re in the midst of moving to a narrative or bio sketch CV that people are mad about abandoning the CCV 🫠

In case you'd like to hear something great, overheard two students, one says in response to the other one discussing challenges with their combination of courses: "That's fire though, you're getting a full on liberal education bro"

I’ve got your WarDog right here, buddy Just like, after she’s done with nap time and maybe some butt scritches first

I wrote a short opinion paper on the uncomfortable truth Quantitative Psychology likely has to face soon. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I rarely advertise my business. I've been fortunate to receive most of my work through referrals. But I do currently have space for a short-term project! If you need help setting up data collection systems, wrangling a dataset for analysis, or documenting data for sharing, reach out! cghlewis.com

The final typeset version of this paper is now online. They give you this weird “view only” link in case anyone possibly wants that, but the preprint itself is downloadable in the quoted post: rdcu.be/wtS91PDTbfia

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Cries in standard Psychology PhD programs only require training in regression and ANOVA

Wrote an op-ed in 2020 warning that the initial emergency response during COVID to digitize instruction must not be taken as evidence education should and could be done online. It was, and here we are.

Another surprising "seed-42 coincidence" We were reading this: doi.org/10.1057/s415... and noted a mistmatch of data in Fig2 with reported stats (e.g. the SD of x-coordinates for blue crosses cannot be 30 as reported). We extracted the plotted points to investigate... #psychscisky #science

We are hiring in the clinical program at Pitt! Pretty broad in scope (adult psychopathology), but the full ad is below. 🚨Deadline is Nov. 13th🚨 Emails for the search committee chairs are in the ad, but I'm also happy to field any questions anyone has. Please feel free to share widely.

“The linguistic murder of what were once perfectly good words is just collateral damage caused by bigotry” Great piece; this is so applicable to so many forms of marginalization.

Welcome to Bill C-34! Let’s fix it! openmedia.org/billC34B #partner

Can confirm this is incredibly easy and fast

@tobiasdienlin.com, @mvreiss.bsky.social, & @moritzbuchi.bsky.social maintain a sheet that catalogs how media & communication journals implement open science/access. I've built a page that pulls this sheet and displays it as a searchable/indexable webpage. dougaparry.github.io/opencomm-jou...

This is a good excuse to say if you prefer difference scores, you can still condition on the pre score. You can think of it as a difference-score ANCOVA, and it brings the same power advantages as the conventional ANCOVA. Here's a full blog post on the topic: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...

Proud Albertan. Proud Canadian.

📝 New article on Our World in Data: When do people experience mental health conditions for the first time? Mental health conditions can begin at almost any age. For many people, they develop in the early stages of life.

Generations of mediation researchers came together at #SESP2026. It was such an honor to meet many of my role models, and sit down at a table to discuss projects from our session! From left to right: Chick Judd, Vincent Yzerbyt, Shawn Yee, Connery Knox, Dave Kenny, Hilary Berksieker, Amanda Montoya

Crossing over, tomorrow…

My Uber is here

Do govt bans on social media actually help youth? Probably not. Worse, they basically advertise social media as "cool" just when teens are over it. Do teens who want to access these services find ways around it? You betcha. Here are a few thoughts: www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1...

We do love to complain but Canadian scientists are relatively happy with their roles and situation. Of course MOAR FUNDING would help but we do work extremely well together. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In my experience, when you do reader surveys and ask people to self report their interests, they self report the interests of the version of themselves they want to be. Then you look at the actual data re: what they read, and they unwittingly tell you their actual interests.

Curling. AMA bsky.app/profile/dran...

Just received the recording of my inaugural lecture "Systems All the Way Down: Rethinking Mental Health Science as a Systems Science" and put it on Youtube. I talk about my vision for the DSM-6, and hope to turn this into a paper soon. www.eiko-fried.com/blog/my-inau...

Reading this made me tear up, and that's really special because we Germans only get to tear up twice a year. Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.

🚨 New paper 🚨 Are your participants or annotators using AI to complete your tasks? We conducted the first study directly observing AI assistance across 700K+ @joinprolific.bsky.social submissions. We found rare, concentrated AI use, but gaps in safeguards. arxiv.org/abs/2610.09279

If you're a professor assigning students the task of interviewing another professor, please don't.

🚨 UVic is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology/ Cognitive Neuroscience. Come join us in beautiful BC! www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Two upcoming workshops on Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis! GSERM @ University of Ljubljana Jan 18-22 gserm.org/programme/co... Statistical Horizons @ Online, Mar 17-19 statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/med...

"No human vetting or validation of the tools output can meaningfully validate its output if the humans themselves do not understand the methods." Great post!

If you ever wanted to know how an inaugural lecture works in the Netherlands, or what I talked about in mine, I put the materials here. I talked about bottlenecks of diagnostic systems, problems of clinical and scientific utility, and how to make a better DSM-6. eiko-fried.com/blog/my-inau...

University of Mannheim is hiring a W3 Professor in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology. Start: 1 February 2027. Application deadline: 22 October 2026. www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job...

Wager to have a little fun, tomorrow…

Interacting with folks on Bluesky over the past couple days has been an interesting experience I see some folks who seeing commentary, immediately making assumptions, and stating what they believe are truths based on these assumptions I also others who are scared because of harms done by academics

Was debating calling out some of the problems with this study (even as I greatly respect the one author on the study whose work I'm familiar with) but I see Carl already did so. This study does not prove what the headline says...

We have some exciting updates to share! - Native iOS and Android apps - End-to-end encrypted messaging - New licenses that keep research affordable and tailored to you. 1/4

Well. This is a thing. A few weeks ago, I announced my new publication in American Psychologist on LinkedIn and didn't do it here. This was clearly a mistake, as some of Bluesky has decided to pile on some... Critique of a student article talking about my work in context. I have some things to say🧵

Psychology department at Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring at the assistant rank, several possible areas of expertise, see ad here: hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

What must it be like to get this much press for causing unmotivated participant dropout on Prolific