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.

Debate Club: We Don’t Need Digital Traces of Time Spent on Digital Media @klingelhoefer.bsky.social We will debate the role, importance, shortcomings, & relative value of this data to prompt critical reflection. This debate draws on our preprint ➡ doi.org/10.31234/osf... 📆 12.09, 09h00, LX1205

Come join us for our talk at #mepsy25!

Finally read this blog post by @bwroberts.bsky.social on how to succeed in academia. Insightful, agree with almost everything. pigee.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/a...

It was great being part of this study. One key takeaway for me: Registered Reports are such an important publication tool: Reviewers voiced critical feedback that led to actual changes (and improvements) in ms. Paper would’ve never been published in light of several null findings.

This has now been published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... The original authors also posted a reply: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Quick thread on some additional thoughts and then I'm probably done talking about this one 🧵

That was unexpected

Great paper! Worth checking out 📖👓

📢New publication📢 @tobiasdienlin.com shows that social media has a small but negative effect on well-being. Other activities like listening to music (+8%) or relaxing (+6%) have stronger effects. Impacts vary by age, gender, and country with younger users & men reporting stronger negative effects 🌍

Asking the users themselves, how does social media affect their well-being? In a large-scale study we find: Social media has a negative but small effect. Other aspects s/a listening to music appear more relevant. Effects differ across users and countries. 🧵1/6 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Perhaps Gen-Z doesn't have a shorter attention span. Perhaps they just have a *preference* for shorter communication. "This documentation could've been a 1 min video ..."

Okay everyone, things are getting serious. I’m going to teach research methods again, 1st year psychology undergraduates. What would you cover with respects to philosophy of science, the research process etc.? I’m not very happy with the textbook stuff so I’m open to all ideas!

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Big call from Germany’s top science academy @leopoldina.org: ❌ No social media under 13 ⚠️ Strict limits until 17 (no endless scroll, push alerts, livestreams for under-16s) 👨‍👩‍👧 Ages 13–15: only with parents 🏫 No smartphones in school until 10th grade www.leopoldina.org/en/press-1/p...

My favorite variation of this theme are studies that say that future experimental studies are needed when the cause is something that cannot be experimentally manipulated, at least not in a targeted manner according to our current state of knowledge.

New post! "A Tale of Two Science Reform Movements," in which I compare the recent #Metascience2025 and #SIPS2025 conferences, and find that I am much more at home at one than the other. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Not sure if we're seeing another media panic develop here, and what the general effects are. That saids, it seems increasingly clear that social AI chatbots can have profound psychological impacts on at least some of their users.

My former position at @univie.ac.at is now being advertised again. If you're doing research on interactive communication, media effects, or media psychology, I can very much recommend applying! Happy to give additional thoughts and information. Just reach out. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io. Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant. THREAD BELOW 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Can anyone find a school, state, or country that went phone free (bell to bell) and regrets it, or reversed it? The Netherlands went phone free in most schools in 2024. Their first major survey of schools finds very positive results: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Great blog post, agree 💯 @yesuncomm.bsky.social and I encountered the exact same problem when criticizing a faulty meta-analysis. Editor told us to do a better analysis and rejected to publish our critique. Make zero sense.

Great and important study!

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

The biggest compliment in academia? Citing someone in the main text—using their full name.

Excellent job opportunity @ikmz.bsky.social! - Work: Digital Health Communication - Contract: Permanent - Salary: 123k - Location: Zurich jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Happy to see this published as a preprint now! Being the first study of her phd, @naru96.bsky.social pursues an important research question: Why and how do people have emotional attachments to social AI chatbots? I think we provide some first interesting answers. Curious to get feedback!

What bothers me when googling for @cos.io preprints is that when you click on the search result, you don't get to the preprint server but automatically download the paper. Often, I just want to get the DOI, read the abstract, or see the stats ... #openscience #academicsky

📣 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

Excellent job opportunity @ikmz.bsky.social! - Work: Digital Health Communication - Contract: Permanent - Salary: 123k - Location: Zurich jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Food for thought. H/t @dingdingpeng.the100.ci & @literalbanana.bsky.social

Great opportunity!

Interested in the MediaPsych Best Paper Award 2025? 🏆 🎉 We’re looking for the best media psychological article published between 2023 and now. @mepsy.bsky.social Members of the German DGPs MediaPsych division can apply. 👉 www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...

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....

new blog post alert! 🚨 "my first conference!" #academicsky #blog #ica25

Learning about the difference between estimand and estimate was crucial for me.

Using the scalar invariant scale Online Privacy Literature Scale, @masurphil.bsky.social find that: Privacy Literacy: 🇩🇪 > 🇺🇸 Privacy Literacy in 🇩🇪: 👨 > 👩 Privacy Literacy in 🇺🇸: 👨 < 👩 #ica25

Central insights from our study on relationships with AI chatbots ⬇️ @naru96.bsky.social #ica25

Had a blast today presenting among great scholars about AI offloading, expertise and relationships! 🤖 Thanks to anyone attending and asking interesting questions! ✨ #ica25

Strong methods at display at #ica25 privacy session: - SESOI - Replications - Preprints - Bayesian Stats - Response Surface Analysis … #openscience #researchreform