Andrea Howard
@drandreahoward.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology | Adolescence and the transition to adulthood | Mental health, alcohol, social media, ADHD | Open science and quantitative psychology | She/her.
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Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
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I wanted to answer a few common questions about our @standupforscience.bsky.social petitions!
People get the heebeejeebee's about the fact that we collect data, I would like to address concerns.
1. We do NOT sell *or* share our data. Period. EVER.
2. We collect addresses to use for activism...
People get the heebeejeebee's about the fact that we collect data, I would like to address concerns.
1. We do NOT sell *or* share our data. Period. EVER.
2. We collect addresses to use for activism...
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I wanted to answer a few common questions about our @standupforscience.bsky.social petitions!
People get the heebeejeebee's about the fact that we collect data, I would like to address concerns.
1. We do NOT sell *or* share our data. Period. EVER.
2. We collect addresses to use for activism...
People get the heebeejeebee's about the fact that we collect data, I would like to address concerns.
1. We do NOT sell *or* share our data. Period. EVER.
2. We collect addresses to use for activism...
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🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
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Canada re: the U.S.
December 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Canada re: the U.S.
After another annual re-watch, I’ve concluded that “Spirited” is most definitely my favourite holiday movie and I’m not sorry one bit 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
After another annual re-watch, I’ve concluded that “Spirited” is most definitely my favourite holiday movie and I’m not sorry one bit 🎄
Maybe this will replace panic over kids using too much social media
Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Maybe this will replace panic over kids using too much social media
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Honored to be appointed by @governor.ca.gov to work towards a safer and smarter internet for all of California’s children. A massive thanks to the Governor and First Partner's offices for making child online safety and countering image-based abuse a priority for the year ahead.
Gov. Gavin Newsom named Candice Odgers (7th from right in photo) to the new California Innovation Council. The UC Irvine professor of psychology will serve on the panel's working group focused on protecting child online safety and countering image-based abuse. https://ow.ly/zIcu50XMPVn
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Honored to be appointed by @governor.ca.gov to work towards a safer and smarter internet for all of California’s children. A massive thanks to the Governor and First Partner's offices for making child online safety and countering image-based abuse a priority for the year ahead.
Whoo boy I watched the leaked CEGOT segment from 60 minutes. That was A Lot.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Whoo boy I watched the leaked CEGOT segment from 60 minutes. That was A Lot.
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I'm going to do a WRITING SPRINT! Starts in 16 minutes at the top of the hour. 1 hour of focused work on any task. You can jump in if you want!
December 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm going to do a WRITING SPRINT! Starts in 16 minutes at the top of the hour. 1 hour of focused work on any task. You can jump in if you want!
I was expecting a quaint story about an old lady who liked nature so much she worked in the park till she died. This absolute lion of a human being *started* at the park service at age 84, after an entire lifetime of impressive community and social justice work.
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I was expecting a quaint story about an old lady who liked nature so much she worked in the park till she died. This absolute lion of a human being *started* at the park service at age 84, after an entire lifetime of impressive community and social justice work.
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McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...
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For any non-Canadian researchers out there, our government recently pumped a ton of cash to try and attract international researchers to Canada. So if you're looking for a change, timing could be good!
Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada
Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada
Dalhousie University is hiring. We’re recruiting up to 30 tenure and tenure-track faculty supported by Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative and a $1.7B federal investment. Curious about building your next chapter in Canada? Apply by Jan. 19: www.dal.ca/research-recruitment
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
For any non-Canadian researchers out there, our government recently pumped a ton of cash to try and attract international researchers to Canada. So if you're looking for a change, timing could be good!
Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada
Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada
This thread, up and down, is a constant theme for me. Wrote a whole article about it. Please let master’s students do a project that matches their level of training 🙏
Apparently it’s been communicated to students that a master’s thesis needs to do a lot of stuff, preferably sophisticated stuff, and very little guidance is provided to them.>
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This thread, up and down, is a constant theme for me. Wrote a whole article about it. Please let master’s students do a project that matches their level of training 🙏
The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026
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December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026
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Assistant or Associate Professor (Canada Research Chair) in Healthy and Inclusive Work, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...
Assistant or Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Healthy and Inclusive Work in
Calgary,
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Healthy and Inclusive Work in
Calgary,
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careers.ucalgary.ca
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Assistant or Associate Professor (Canada Research Chair) in Healthy and Inclusive Work, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...
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Not working in Canada but want to? Canada (U. Of British Columbia) wants you.
research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program
The University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as
research.ubc.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not working in Canada but want to? Canada (U. Of British Columbia) wants you.
research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...
Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now.
Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Associate/Full Professor and Canada Impact+ Research Chair, Open Field of Specialization - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning)
About the Position Carleton University invites applications from outstanding researchers for between five and ten tenured appointments as Canada Impact+ Research Chairs at the rank of Associate or Ful...
carleton.ca
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey out there to all my mid-to-late career colleagues, do you want to come work at Carleton? Our government is pushing hard to recruit international talent right now.
Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Posting below, and a few details about how I love where I work
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Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’
Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental health issues require the integration of statistical...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
December 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
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If only adults could pay attention to something other than teenagers’ phones…
Today I note how, after Florida implemented their #cellphoneban in schools, Florida's national standardized testing scores dropped.
We need to work harder to improve schools by improving schools, not by banning technology.
www.tallahassee.com/story/opinio...
We need to work harder to improve schools by improving schools, not by banning technology.
www.tallahassee.com/story/opinio...
Florida’s cellphone ban hasn’t reversed testing score trends | Opinion
Teens have been trying to tell us the real problem: The problem with schools is schools.
www.tallahassee.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If only adults could pay attention to something other than teenagers’ phones…
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You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…
Ha! I got a shout out 😊
This post brought to you by: Relentless nostalgia for postdoctoral fellowship years and by Full professors with too much time on their hands
This post brought to you by: Relentless nostalgia for postdoctoral fellowship years and by Full professors with too much time on their hands
December 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ha! I got a shout out 😊
This post brought to you by: Relentless nostalgia for postdoctoral fellowship years and by Full professors with too much time on their hands
This post brought to you by: Relentless nostalgia for postdoctoral fellowship years and by Full professors with too much time on their hands
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Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!
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December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!
That’s a good cheese sauce. Departmental potluck here I come 🧀
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
That’s a good cheese sauce. Departmental potluck here I come 🧀