Andrew Cooper
@pocooperose.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream @UTSC Psych & GD-PCS 🇨🇦 Opinions my own. (he/him)
Therapy mechanisms & preferences (CBT, MDD, PTSD, dropout); meta-analysis & meta-science; hidden curriculum & sci comm.
Lately: psychology & videogames 🎮👾
Therapy mechanisms & preferences (CBT, MDD, PTSD, dropout); meta-analysis & meta-science; hidden curriculum & sci comm.
Lately: psychology & videogames 🎮👾
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Pinning this for video game makers, media, players, scholars, etc who I’m following on Bluesky —
I’m launching a new course called *Psychology and Videogames* in 2026 & watching all the awesome stuff you folks are working on for inspiration! (On top of what I follow/watch/listen to for fun :)
I’m launching a new course called *Psychology and Videogames* in 2026 & watching all the awesome stuff you folks are working on for inspiration! (On top of what I follow/watch/listen to for fun :)
Reposting this so students in D39 can find it more easily 🏒
1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out!
TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effects of patient response pattern distributions on comparisons of psychosocial treatments for major depressive disorder
The pharmaceutical industry has paid more attention to potential variability in depressed patients' ability to benefit from antidepressants vs. placeb…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Reposting this so students in D39 can find it more easily 🏒
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I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.
PLEASE SHARE!!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
PLEASE SHARE!!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher Study of Affective Disorders’ Classification and Treatment (SADCAT) Lab Dr. Lorenzo-Lorenzo LuacesDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Blooming...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.
PLEASE SHARE!!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
PLEASE SHARE!!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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I say it in almost every talk I give:
Sports betting ads need to go the way of cigarette ads
Sports betting ads need to go the way of cigarette ads
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I say it in almost every talk I give:
Sports betting ads need to go the way of cigarette ads
Sports betting ads need to go the way of cigarette ads
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One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
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Well this is a nice surprise.
And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general).
deadline.com/2026/02/bald...
And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general).
deadline.com/2026/02/bald...
‘Baldur’s Gate’ TV Series Continuing Game’s Story In Works At HBO From ‘The Last Of Us’ Co-Creator Craig Mazin & Hasbro Entertainment
A ‘Baldur’s Gate’ TV series in development at HBO will Game 3's story. It comes from 'The Last of Us' co-creator Craig Mazin and Hasbro Entertainment
deadline.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Well this is a nice surprise.
And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general).
deadline.com/2026/02/bald...
And the material will be well treated by someone who has spent lots of time playing the games (BG3 and D&D in general).
deadline.com/2026/02/bald...
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An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.
This is counter-intuitive:
"It is clear that the benefits of cycling outweigh the risks, with helmet legislation actually costing society more from lost health gains than saved from injury prevention." theconversation.com/ditching-bik...
"It is clear that the benefits of cycling outweigh the risks, with helmet legislation actually costing society more from lost health gains than saved from injury prevention." theconversation.com/ditching-bik...
Ditching bike helmets laws better for health
With epidemics of diabetes and obesity threatening to bankrupt state health budgets, governments need to broaden their strategies to encourage physical activity. Allowing cyclists to ride without a he...
theconversation.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.
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checking the bio and last 8 posts of someone before RT, just in case
reading your timeline like
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 AM
checking the bio and last 8 posts of someone before RT, just in case
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2. In education, the core mode of learning for two centuries — the research paper — was destroyed overnight. In science, delicate balances of incentives are being upturned by products like OpenAI's Prism, leading to catastrophic feedback loops that will undermine the entire enterprise.
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 AM
2. In education, the core mode of learning for two centuries — the research paper — was destroyed overnight. In science, delicate balances of incentives are being upturned by products like OpenAI's Prism, leading to catastrophic feedback loops that will undermine the entire enterprise.
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We're launching a website.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
We're launching a website.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers.
jank.cool
If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
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there we go
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 AM
there we go
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
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A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
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an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
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anyone have a good answer here?
no idea where to ask so asking you - do you know where I can get a cool looking abolish ice shirt that benefits a good cause?
January 22, 2026 at 2:54 AM
anyone have a good answer here?
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this is what I come back to as well
we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman
we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:25 AM
this is what I come back to as well
we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman
we wouldn't need all this EFFORT and HYPE and fucking DRAMA if this technology was even 25% as disruptive and innovative as claimed by its pitchman
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From the moment we know a technology steals/obfuscates people's labour to perform task X, it matters 0 how effective the people's labour you steal to do X is. They will likely get better at X over time and you will get better at stealing. Nothing of this justifies the theft. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
![In this paper, I turn this frame on its head (cf. Andersen et al., 2023; Bannon, 2011;
Bishop, 2021; Nick Dyer-Witheford, 2019; Rogers, 2022; Ryan, 2024; Schmager et al., 2025;
Shneiderman, 2022; Steinhoff, 2021; Walton & Nayak, 2021). Using a unique (re)definition of
AI that releases us from a correlationist1 grip, we then examine three triplets as case studies of
techno-social relationships between cognition and artifacts. To presage the coming analyses,
herein AI is any techno-social relationship that outsources to machines or algorithms some
part, however small, of human cognitive labour (cf. van Rooij et al., 2024). I demonstrate
that AI is human-centric, not because it behaves like or is designed to be like humans, but
because it requires a ghost in the machine, often literally an obfuscated human-in-the-loop
to properly function (also see Guest & Martin, 2025) because AI is humans albeit in fetishised
(Braune, 2020; Morris, 2017; Mota & Cosentino Filho, 2024), obfuscated forms (e.g. Erscoi
et al., 2023). That is, AI “is in reality produced by relations among people [even though
it] appears before us in a fantastic form as relations among things” (Pfaffenberger, 1988, p.
250). AI’s “technological veil” hides human cognitive labour (Mota & Cosentino Filho, 2024).
I bring this anthropological, sociotechnical and broadly computational cognitive scientific
angle to understanding AI, that is unlike “the skills and techniques of behavioural research,
previously applied to humans and other animals[, which claim to help us] better understand
the ‘psychology’ of complex black-box ANNs” (Wills, 2025, n.p. cf. Raley and Rhee, 2023). In
fact behavioural probing of such systems using such experimental techniques assumes their
psychological standing to be equal to, or comparable to, biological organisms: it begs the
question (see for relevant analyses: Forbes & Guest, 2025; Guest & Martin, 2023, 2024; Raji
et al., 2022).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreifq2kxakpbsa44my235o2jn72u4dzyrqgvnuoldrzlddstahocdxm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 AM
From the moment we know a technology steals/obfuscates people's labour to perform task X, it matters 0 how effective the people's labour you steal to do X is. They will likely get better at X over time and you will get better at stealing. Nothing of this justifies the theft. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
January 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Board the Mothership.
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
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The murdered woman being literally named “Good” is some “the Bell Riots really woke everyone up” sh*t.
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The murdered woman being literally named “Good” is some “the Bell Riots really woke everyone up” sh*t.
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i am back at work today
January 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
i am back at work today
Spoilers, but I’ve got to know: what becomes of the Baymax that remains in whatever netherzone / folded space, now motivated exclusively by the Murder Protocol personality chip?
(Yes, we are now watching it on repeat in this house, why do you ask?)
(Yes, we are now watching it on repeat in this house, why do you ask?)
January 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Spoilers, but I’ve got to know: what becomes of the Baymax that remains in whatever netherzone / folded space, now motivated exclusively by the Murder Protocol personality chip?
(Yes, we are now watching it on repeat in this house, why do you ask?)
(Yes, we are now watching it on repeat in this house, why do you ask?)
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Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it
authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...
authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...
August 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it
authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...
authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...