New preprint out! 🎉 “From Wounded Healers to Commercialized Caregivers”: a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media. We reviewed 59 empirical studies on mental health content creators across platforms. Main findings below 🧵 Feedback very welcome! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Really cool: have already received 5 people who are interested. Sometimes I’m wondering whether bsky has sufficient outreach — so that’s really cool. Often you don’t need to reach many but the right people 🤍

I highly recommend this book! ((so much so that I even wrote a review of it. You can read it here: www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/article/view/9772 ))

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

Happy to have received the @sgkm.bsky.social Dissertation Prize 2026 for my thesis “Not All Those Who Navigate Are Lost: Self-Determined Patients Facing Mental Health Misinformation in Online Communities for Mental Health Symptoms” funded by @snf-fns.ch and defended at @usi.ch 🎉 hit me up for a copy

Seminar lecturer here 👋 Quick tip 💁‍♀️ I recommend sending students a pre-course survey to assess their theoretical and methodological background before the seminar begins. Two key advantages (see thread) 🧵👇

Happy to share that my book review of Prof. @acerbialberto.com "Tecnopanico" is now published in Studies in Communication Sciences @sgkm.bsky.social 🎉

Thank you to @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social for this great review (in English!) of Tecnopanico www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/articl...

To help our @ikmz.bsky.social students write their master thesis, we developed a guide with tips and tricks. If you're interested, you can download it here👇 drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/... Feel free to reuse it or provide feedback!

I need to say this so very, very loudly: 👏 null 👏results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 no 👏 results 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 are 👏 not 👏 unfortunate 👏 👏 null 👏 results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 errors 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 do 👏 not 👏 need 👏 to 👏 be 👏 "fixed 👏 with 👏 "more data" 👏 We really need to sort this, y'all.

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

The reviews went out from our biggest conference in my field #ica26 Partial (AI) reviews are now a real problem. As a community we need to address this and work on standards. No one deserves AI slop as reviews.

Happy to be part of this initiative as an Editor, together with @philippesloksnath.bsky.social and other scholars. Stay tuned: we’re working on new ways to further increase the reach of this valuable tool. Thanks @shkessler.bsky.social for involving me!

The Media Psychology & Methods Team wishes you a good end to 2025! The year was special for us: We started as a team, had our first retreat, conferences, teaching, and christmas party (together with the sci comm team). Off to new adventures! (But until then: Winter break ❄️☕️🦦)

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

Hit 100 citations on Google Scholar today, yay! 🥳 Somewhere out there, a hundred people found my work useful… or at least cite-able. Thank you my friends 🫂

@mepsyme.bsky.social is finally on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated on research in media effects, wellbeing, HCI, AI and persuasion, online misinformation, and digital creativity!

Life can now finally continue (only a communication scholar can understand). Jokes aside - in the following order - keep hydrated, eat your veggies, and peer-review! 💧🥦📝 @icahdq.bsky.social

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

@tobiasdienlin.com spoke today at the @ikmz.bsky.social PostDoc Club about his journey to becoming a professor. My take-home message? Balance is key: be strategic, but don’t overdo it: people notice. And just be yourself (but… not too much and not always 😄).

Good news straight from my IG feed: "When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018." ⁠(sciencemagazine) Original article: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Top three reasons given why female scholars are less likely to share their research online: - Considered less effective - Less time to do so - Considered more harmful Data from Agnes Horvat, n > 3.000.

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Discover ways to actively participate in #ICA26 beyond submitting your work — from volunteering opportunities to networking events, there’s a role for everyone! 🔗

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Looking forward to @fassiluisa.bsky.social‘s talk at our department next week :)

What are a lecturer (me 🤙) and her @ikmz.bsky.social students doing on Instagram during class time 😮? 📱👩‍🏫🧑‍🎓 Science dissemination! and learning communication theory by doing it. Follow us on Insta (@healthteory1o1) and discover how we turn abstract theory 💬 into real-world impact💡

Please tell me I’m not alone. Forget Mozart or lo-fi: I survive deadlines powered by Disney soundtracks. #ica26

What’s a media psychologist doing at a psychedelics conference? 💊🧘‍♀️ I was at ALPS to present a research agenda on psychedelic-assisted therapy and social media and it was FUN. First things I did: meditated and listened to music coming from shrooms 🍄 Had plenty of insights (interdisciplinarity!!)

Getting rid of academic journals in favor of capturing ongoing comments and suggestions from experts would make the world a better place.

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉 Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔 Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being osf.io/preprints/ps...

And here I am, for the first time in the @ikmz.bsky.social newsletter ✅ "Influencers & Digital Health" has just started and I already feel it’s a blessing ✨... not only for the students (I hope!) but also for me. It’s amazing how smoothly the healthcomm theories can be explained through TikToks 🎥

New code review response just dropped:

…first retreat of IKMZ Division MediaPsych & Methods is a wrap! 🎉 (also my first academic retreat ever)

Given the gravity of the topic, we're doubling down at @natureportfolio.nature.com on fighting misinformation with a special collection on health misinformation I'm (co)-editing. Please share and submit your work! Open for submissions. www.nature.com/collections/...

Partic. interested in feedback on this: - We conduct a glorious serial mediation with cross-sectional data 🥶 - BUT, underlying theory is plausible: Perc of tech→grats→use→attachment - We hope to control for all relevant confounders - We acknowledge estimates imperfectly capture estimands Thoughts?

📣 New preprint out! In "It’s her! Investigating relationship development with social AI chatbots", we explore how people form emotional bonds with chatbots. 📄 Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... ✍️ with @tobiasdienlin.com

5 years ago, @niklasjohannes.bsky.social and I summarized the literature on the effects of digital technology use on adolescent well-being as follows. Do you think the findings still apply? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present the final study of my doctoral dissertation at the @icahdq.bsky.social conference in Denver, Colorado. This experiment explores how emotional support provision can obscure the critical evaluation of mental health misinformation.

The feeling of finally being able to sit down with your new teammates! I‘m so pleased to be working alongside @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social @philippesloksnath.bsky.social —two very special and talented individuals! Here’s to out journey ahead! And the same goes to you-CU soon @shinyikang.bsky.social!