Andrew Berry, PhD
@andrewberry.bsky.social
Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."
Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics
While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.
newrepublic.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."
Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
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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
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Please welcome:
@rachelfadler.bsky.social
@riyasinha.bsky.social
@nsehgal.bsky.social
@preranak15.bsky.social
@francoisch.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
October 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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
🔥🔥🔥
Please welcome:
@rachelfadler.bsky.social
@riyasinha.bsky.social
@nsehgal.bsky.social
@preranak15.bsky.social
@francoisch.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
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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/
Read more here: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e69602/
September 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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/
Read more here: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e69602/
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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...
Please share widely!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
docs.google.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
Please share widely!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
“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.”
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“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.”
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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 ⤵️
Repeating duplicated messages—known as CopyPasta—over and over online is a common misinformation strategy. Using AI to paraphrase the message, what the authors call “AIPasta,” could be even more effective at creating a false consensus. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
August 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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 ⤵️
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
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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
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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...
The One Quality Most ‘Super-Agers’ Share
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
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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
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
August 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
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
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
August 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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
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
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🎉 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-...
💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025:
cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...
July 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🎉 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-...
💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025:
cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...
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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...
July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
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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.
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.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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.
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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.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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
🚨 BIG NEWS: Our new department video is LIVE on our new site!
Huge thanks to Kim Le Mezo & Cory Cooper (Feinberg Ed Tech) and our awesome CBITs team for bringing this vision to life! 💜✨
Get a special look inside the CBITs community now👇
🎬: tinyurl.com/4vts67x6
Huge thanks to Kim Le Mezo & Cory Cooper (Feinberg Ed Tech) and our awesome CBITs team for bringing this vision to life! 💜✨
Get a special look inside the CBITs community now👇
🎬: tinyurl.com/4vts67x6
CBITs Home
Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) researches effective digital mental health services.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Check out the new CBITs website! Collectively we’re doing lots of significant, impactful research in digital mental health. #HCI #UI #UX #HCD #digitalhealth
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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.
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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.
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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.
May 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
The work groups at @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Implementation Science Academy brought it to life! 💥 Participants dove into hands-on projects, tackled real-world challenges & sparked big breakthroughs. So much energy, teamwork & fun! Join us in 2026: shorturl.at/o5nas 🚀👏 #impsci @ipham.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
Mina Lee (@mnlee.bsky.social)
Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️
https://minalee-research.github.io/
mnlee.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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)
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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May 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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)
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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
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
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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
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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
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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/
You can purchase the book here: geni.us/UMED/
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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/
You can purchase the book here: geni.us/UMED/