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 ❄️☕️🦦)

Great to see our homepage is now up and running!

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This is so cool. And I’m so happy that reviewers realized the package’s enormous relevance.

Happy to have received this note by @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social! I don't review as much as I used to, so this was a pleasant surprise. It's a great idea of JMP to publicly acknowledge reviewers. Reviewing is an important part of quality control with little concrete benefits, so everything helps!

„These high school hagwons have grueling schedules. During term time, students typically have days that run from 7am to 2am (sic!), starting with morning study sessions before school and finishing with homework in the library.“ I wasn’t prepared for reading this …

To normalize open science, it’s important to include it into teaching. Great to see this implemented!

Very much enjoyed to be part of our first workshop!

Starting our first workshop on theory with a view …

Preprint⚠️ Scrolling and swiping tend to be more interesting than studying or working, leading to procrastination. Can we do something about that? We investigated whether temporary deliberate non-use of digital technologies (digital disconnection) is effective as a strategy against procrastination.

Just published in Behavior Research Methods: The individual-level precision of implicit measures w/ @ianhussey.mmmdata.io 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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This is super cool and helpful!

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

Hello Bluesky👋 This is our first post as the IKMZ Media Psychology & Methods division. Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season, we thought we’d start with a game: Can you guess the age Spotify gave to our members? 🎧🤔 Our Team will reply in the comments ⬇️ P.S. That’s us at our traditional team-fondue 🫕�

Do LLMs understand humour? My short answer: Who cares. For my long answer, read the article I wrote for our university newspaper: www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/do_chat...

1. Transparency is necessary for credibility 2. Transparency is hard to change 3. Require transparency* 4. Transparency is not magic 5. Journals are part of problem 6. Expect more from journals 7. Peer review is not magic 8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science 9. Meta-analysis is not magic

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

🚨 Big news from Brussels: The @europarl.europa.eu has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for a minimum age of 16 for access to social media: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... (1/4)

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/

Great opportunity!

Gestern sprach @robert-habeck.de an der UZH. Die Bedrohung der liberalen Demokratien sieht er in wirtschaftlicher Stagnation, Schwächung des Mittelstands, vorangetrieben durch Globalisierung und Wohlstandsschere. Social Media verstärke politische Extremisierung.

It's simply never too late to quit X www.reuters.com/business/med...

Opening a cluster analysis lecture with a @dingdingpeng.the100.ci post go brrrr

Now this is a new one: My university's license of SAGE journals allows me to view but not to download the research articles. According to ChatGPT read-access costs 100K€ p.a. If you want to make 100% sure that interested readers can access your article, publish it in a #diamondopenaccess journal.

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/

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....

In a recent study, Hikari Abe-Džujka and I found that femvertizing affects purchase intention. While the effect was rather small, in our study femvertizing *increased* purchase intention by 1%. Read full paper here: www.tandfonline.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.

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Happy to see that preprints can make it into teaching :)

Glad to see that in the criteria for tenure our department now explicitly includes #openscience. There’s hope! @ikmz.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social

📱 The use of digital services is increasing in Switzerland, with instant messaging use rising to 96% in 2025. 📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025 #WIP2025 #Switzerland #Schweiz #AI #internet

New blog by Data Colada on the ResearchBox platform, which has excellent improvements (I love the Zenodo back-up!). I will focus more on the platform in my educational material. And we should be very grateful to everyone who makes data sharing platforms! datacolada.org/130

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...

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

This week, PROMISE outreach and policy impact coordinator Jen Adams from the Comms Policy Collaborative, attended #MozFest2025 where this year's theme was 'unlearning'. (1/3)

Incredibly, the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon is 32 years old, originally published in 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...

Really important, this. Also slightly depressing.

⚡BIG NEWS⚡Excited to be the new Associate Editor for @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. Big shoes to fill, following the fantastic work of @connolly-ahern.bsky.social! Grateful to continue to serve this flagship journal 🙌

Join the next Data Donation Lab Meeting! 🗓️ 25 Nov, 12:00 – 13:00 (Zurich time) 💻 Zoom: uzh.zoom.us/j/6300031086... Speakers: • Ernesto de Leon (UvA) — who donates their data • Lion Wedel (Weizenbaum) — TikTok & German elections 2025 Plus: Lab updates & 2026 outlook. See you there ✨

📣 Wir laden Sie herzlich zu unserer öffentlichen Vortragsreihe „Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern“ ein. Gastredner:innen geben spannende Einblicke in die aktuelle Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft und in Künstliche Intelligenz.

This looks really cool :)

@hannahdecker.bsky.social is a postdoc at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social . She holds a PhD from @unidue.bsky.social, for which she analysed online political campaigning on social media and the role of personalised content. Currently, she focuses on positive effects of #digitalmedia and #medialiteracy.

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲