Difficult to see this as anything but an execution by a death squad in broad daylight. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health. Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB #socialmedia #research

Great thread. Definitely worth reading!

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...

💡 How do people in Germany perceive Artificial Intelligence (AI)? In our recent population survey in Germany, we examined attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions regarding AI in work, healthcare, and education. 🔗 Read the full open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The relationship between income and vote has reversed in the USA.

📣Job alert 📣 11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas: ✅ Immersive virtual reality ✅New (Para-)Social Encounters ✅Epistemic challenges Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️ Please share! 🔃 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

We snap photos of everything. But does more documentation mean better memories? 📸📲🤳 Not necessarily. Too many photos can drown out what really matters. Remembering is all about selection. Talked about this with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

New paper on autobiographical #memory in the #digitalage 🚨 What do individuals do when being asked to remember past events? We show that they repeatedly switch between information stored in their minds and information stored in external resources (e.g., their smartphones) doi.org/10.1186/s412...

@davidryanmiller.com thought you might appreciate this work by @johnjost.bsky.social, which I see as very aligned with what you suggest spsp.org/news/charact...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀 Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested? ✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

📱 Interested in collecting data with smartphones? Join this #GESISworkshop with @lukotto.bsky.social @gesis.org for a hands-on guide to planning, conducting & analyzing mobile, intensive-longitudinal surveys. ➡️ More info & registration: tinyurl.com/mobiledata25

My fellow communication scientists, can you point to scientific articles about what @techconnectify.bsky.social is concerned about Some parts I believe relate to @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social's paper, but I know I'm missing other parts journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I don't plan to read it, but this is what they mean by anxious generation, yes? 🫠 From here: www.apa.org/pubs/reports...

📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Nice to see that my employer has finally left this toxic place #eXit

Hej journalists, Elmo, Alice, and Hitler hit news values, but amplifying far-right provocations plays right into their hands. It might bring short-term clicks, but the long-term boomerang will hit—not only grabbing attention, fueling their agenda, but also undermining trust in the media.

A less discussed aspect of normalization of the far right is the attacks on anyone using pre-normalization assessments and terminology. This has been going on for over a decade, in Europe and the U.S., where the term “far right” is being squeezed tighter and tighter until it only refers to Nazis.

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#JobAlert: Full-time position as University Professor of ‹Interface Cultures/Critical Data› at the University of Arts Linz, application deadline: 7 February 2025 www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/j...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

- Social Psychology Job - Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics specialising in socio-cultural psychology, communication psychology, and/or political psychology Closing date: 2nd March 2025 #SocialPsyc PoliPsy #PsychJobs #AcademicSky #PhDSky

New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Six days until our application deadline! Post-doc position (4 years) at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Psychology of Communication and New Media. Starting April 1, 2025. Follow this link for the German and English language (Page 2) job announcement: go.uniwue.de/psycomedia

Based on our 12-item scale to measure attitudes towards AI (ATTARI-12), my colleagues @tgnambs.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social, as well as the team over at the #SOEP have now developed a new short questionnaire to measure domain-specific AI attitudes in healthcare, education, and at work ⤵️

Fun fact: The zeros in 2001: A Space Odyssey's title card are not zeros. Kubrick used the Gill Sans typeface and preferred to use the capital letter O rather than the narrower zero (0) for the numbers.

Join our team! Post-doc position for four years in our research group at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Psychology of Communication and New Media. Starting April 1, 2025. Follow this link for the German and English language (Page 2) job announcement: go.uniwue.de/psycomedia

Today @ulliecker.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social & I respond @lseimpactblog.bsky.social to critics of misinfo research & set the record straight: misinfo is (i) a cause of societal ills, (ii) prevalent, (iii) impacts behavior, & (iv) can often readily be identified! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Curious about how social media impacts mental health? Dr. @mattmotyl.bsky.social and I dive into the research and noise in part 1 of our series. Join us unpacking this critical and misunderstood topic for those in the #digitalwellbeing space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klas...

Autobiographical remembering is a core aspect of being human that might change in the face of current technologies. Fantastic too see our paper on the AMEDIA-model published - along with ten thought-provoking commentaries and a reply.

So if I understand correctly, a Facebook-funded study brought together Facebook employees and with academics funded by Facebook to use data provided by Facebook to show the Facebook didn't affect the election, and then via PNAS's contributed track chose their own reviewer—also funded by Facebook.

Melanie Green and I wrote a long piece on narrative transportation and the power of stories. Out now in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology! Still no paywall for the next two weeks... doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... "Narrative transportation: How stories shape how we see ourselves and the world"

“It’s an important piece of the puzzle on digital-media use and mental health... If social media and Internet and mobile-phone use is really such a devastating force in our society, we'd see it on this bird’s-eye view [study] — but we don’t. @markusappel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“But if I had to describe the global trend over the last decade, I would say there is no uniform trend showing a global crisis, and, where things are getting worse for teenagers, no evidence that it is the result of the spread of technology.” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/o...

Come do a postdoc with me in beautiful Canterbury, England and do cool stuff about the moral psychology of trust in AI 🤖 jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

There’s like a whole stable full of competent social scientists with actual expertise in media effects and policy who directly oppose haidt’s cherrypicked data and nonsense policy recs and yet he still gets more airtime than the rest of us combined