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Enjoyed this podcast by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social and @tomchivers.bsky.social on well-being. Includes a report of a recent study showing that well-being, on average, decreases across the lifespan. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-88...

New to open science? 💡 Revisit our introductory webinar exploring what it means, why it matters, and how it can benefit researchers and the public alike. 📝 Watch on our YouTube 👇

Just stumbled upon a super interesting preprint about chatbot usage and loneliness 👀 osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread below 👇 (1-6)

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.

Neue FWF-Studie (vorgestellt im Sept.) zu Postdocs bestätigt, was wir seit Jahren sagen: - 82 % finden die Karriereperspektiven zu unsicher, - 91 % fordern mehr unbefristete Stellen unterhalb der Professur. Das Problem ist bekannt – wann wird es endlich gelöst? 🤷‍♀️ #IchBinHanna @nuwiss.bsky.social

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

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

How about instead:

@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.

Das @foeg.bsky.social hat soeben das aktuelle Jahrbuch zur Qualität der Medien in der Schweiz vorgestellt. Zentrale Ergebnisse: - Anzahl der News-Depriviertem nimmt stetig zu - News-Deprivierte mit weniger Wissen - AI Tools beinhalten ≥ 5% Fake News - Medienqualität stabil

Come work with Matti!

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The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.

On the way to the University of Zurich to deliver a talk tomorrow at their seminar series in evolutionary medicine 🇨🇭 My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...

Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Make an effect size prediction! @jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52) Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.

Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups. As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.

TIL

Very happy to be part of this project and to collaborate with several great colleagues! Follow our social media accounts to stay updated :)

📣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 👇

Yes, we’re seriously considering to install an open science bell 🤣 You can ring it when - publishing a printing - doing a preregistration - (privacy friendly) sharing data - submitting an RR - submitting to a diamond OA journal - sharing code What did I forget?

In this ms led by @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social, we argue that some use social media not to improve their well-being. Instead, some aim to confirm their (often negative) self-view. We call this self-defeating social media use, and in the ms we suggest a research agenda on how to analyze this q.

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

➡️List of OA journals in Communication! Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals. Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

When I hear this point, I often mention @orbenamy.bsky.social PhD, which was one of the most influential ones in recent years, based (almost? entirely?) on secondary data analyses.

This. Especially applies to BA/MA theses. We require students to collect samples and hence conduct research that in many if not most cases is uninformative if not misleading re the RQ.

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

“[S]tatistical complexity risks becoming decorative—used to signal analytical sophistication rather than deepen theoretical insight” Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor. academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

Have received my first review that’s clearly and entirely written by AI. Have to say it’s definitely better than most other reviews I got so far.

ICYW, this is how @ikmz.bsky.social students are writing their theses.

Smart folks of bsky 🧠: If you’ve used formative constructs, what were the biggest validity challenges & how did reviewers react? Any opposing takes on formative measurement? Also after good methods papers 🔍 Read some Diamantopoulos + Coltman—what else? Ty!! #measurement #rstats #SEM #academicsky

Is anyone willing to share their slides on philosophy of science for undergraduate (statistics) students, especially as it pertains to the hypothetico-deductive framework? Here are my current notes on the topic: lnkd.in/eB-TZGDK

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

I've used many ESM/mobile sensing apps/tools but it's been a while since I've launched a new study of this kind. Does anyone know of an uptodate table/taxonomy/document/resource/github page summarising the relative features/options/pros/cons/pricing of the various options?

Thank you for coming to visit our department and present your research!

Happening today :)

I skimmed a paper of an author I dislike and it's amazing how a certain style of writing --overly complicated explanations of trivial claims, new jargon that hides how vacuous it all is, an overemphasize on mathematization regardless of whether it actually maps onto the claims made-- just wrecks me.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Was great to participate in the ws as a mentor. For people doing a PhD in the field of media psych, can strongly recommend partaking in the WS!

We're happy to have @laurentwang.bsky.social come visit our division at @ikmz.bsky.social Tuesday next week! Everyone onsite invited to join :)

At #mepsy25, I’ll present research together with @shinyikang.bsky.social where we test five central claims of @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social‘s anxious generation, using large scale data from the #mentalhealthdays. Join Thursday, 4.15 pm, LK051 Spoiler alert: we get somewhat surprising results.