Parents are more likely to label their teen’s screen time as “too much” than teens themselves. www.pewresearch.org/...

Really interesting--p. 7 stood out to me. "Across all three platforms, most teen users say it neither hurts nor helps their mental health...We asked parents how social media overall impacts their teen: About a quarter say they hurt their teen’s mental health, compared with 8% who say they help."

Are smartphones stressful for adolescents? 🤔 Using experience sampling and smartphone trace data, we found that for ~80% adolescents, screen time is neither stress‑inducing nor stress‑buffering. For ~20%, smartphone use is stress‑inducing, but usage patterns matter ⭐ doi.org/10.1177/1461...

📣 New research report on sexting in Czechia: over one-third of adults and nearly half of 18–29 y/o exchange sexually explicit messages, photos, or videos. Sexting is a common part of digital relationships, but it also brings risks such as unsolicited content and sexual coercion. 👉 muni.cz/go/df3684

🖋️"An outright ban on social media platforms for under-16s is problematic. It neglects young people’s rights and voice and penalises them rather than targeting social media platforms. Professor @jessicaringrose.bsky.social argues Australia’s under-16s social media ban could do more harm than good.

🐱‍👤 Okulus has also made it into the Research Handbook on Cyberpsychology. 🐱‍👤 Chapter about anonymity in online communication (and cats) by my great friend. 📖 He enjoys being a published cat. 🐾 doi.org/10.4337/9781...

It was a great honor to present our @irtis.bsky.social report Tech&Teens at the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic today! ✨

The 66th session of the Academy Assembly, the supreme self-governing body of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is currently underway at the National House Vinohrady in Prague. CAS President Radomír Pánek warned that the share of state spending on science has dropped to an unprecedented 0.5% of GDP.

🎓 Are you a PhD or master's student eager for feedback? The #ECC2026 Poster & Mentoring Session is for you! Submit your poster by January 8, 2026, and get paired with a mentor. ✏️ Want to apply as a mentor? Look out for a call in spring! Details: ecrea2026brno.eu/call-for-pos...

Microsoft Teams is just awful. Why oh why do we (universities) insist on using it?? (This is by no means a hot take)

#OutNow in #iCS How can researchers collect mobile data responsibly? This article tests several data donation methods in Switzerland and finds that manual entry encourages more people to share their app use. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Reviewing 57 studies, this article maps how digital engagement shapes young people’s learning and wellbeing. It argues that online opportunities and risks depend on socioeconomic resources, not technology alone. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Přečtěte si náš nový report o digitálním well-beingu v Česku. ❤️‍🩹📖 Přinášíme reprezentativní data o tom, jak česká dospělá populace prožívá svůj život s technologiemi – co jí dává inspiraci a radost, ale také kde přináší stres a ztrátu kontroly.💡 irtis.muni.cz/cs/aktuality...

Join us next year in Brno!!! ❤️

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:

If you enjoyed #ICBM2025 and use Ambulatory Assessment/ Ecological Momentary Assessment methods, consider planning another trip to Vienna next year: @ambulatory-assessment.org will meet here on 3-5 August 2026 #SAA2026. More info soon on univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/

Today Ive written about the Dopamine Myth...the belief dopamine makes activities like video games or social media "addictive". All the talk of "dopamine hits" is pseudoscientific nonsense...neither reflecting how brains nor pleasant activities work. www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

Methodological considerations for social media intervention studies Perspective by Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Stephen L. Murphy, Laura Lemahieu & Ernst H. W. Koster 🚨FREE🚨web access (with registration) until Aug 28: go.nature.com/45cerHT PDF: rdcu.be/eyaz8

I was reminded today of the heroic work done by @eikofried.bsky.social and @robinnkok.bsky.social to see what information Elsevier collects on academics and was re-horrified. 🧵 (1/5) eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-h... #academicsky

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Finally :) Preprint of Susanne Baumgartner and my paper Short but still valid: Validating Single-Item Measures for Key Communication Science Constructs for Experience Sampling Research. In a 5-Study procedure, we assess the validity of in total 21 constructs osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

My comment about open research and qualitative methods is out! I argue that open research needs to take seriously the notion that "rigour" looks different for different methods and can learn from qualitative traditions. It feels very apt to be at #QMIP2025 for this publication day rdcu.be/evEpk

Our paper (with @davidsmahel.bsky.social and others) on how adolescents feel after sexting has been recently published in New Media and Society! You can read the study here: doi.org/10.1177/1461... (🔑 open access)

New in JCMC with @bronwynec.bsky.social: People who feel more in control of their social media use tend to use it less and report better well-being. Seeing social media as positive was associated with more use, but not well-being. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jcmc...

🌞 New issue is here! 🌞 Vol. 19, No. 3 features 2 new validated measures, 3 longitudinal studies on social media use, and much more - see 🧵👇 📚 Cool off with a smart summer read: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... All #OpenAccess 🔓 Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped bring this issue to life! 🙌

Stay tuned for #SAA2026! We at #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at are very much looking forward to welcoming @ambulatory-assessment.org and you to our beautiful city. Abstract submission will open on December 1st. More information will be published soon on the conference website: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/

The Workshop on Aggression is still open for submissions! Please, share among your colleagues interested in aggression-related research. 💙 Brno awaits you. :) Submissions about media and digital-related forms of aggression, but also traditional aggression are welcomed. #conference #woa2025

Miss #ica25 already? ⛰️ Luckily, the post-ICA @icamobile.bsky.social hangouts are right around the corner! We'll be chatting informally about ICA et al ☕ you don't need to have attended ICA to join! Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

Back from my first ICA @icahdq.bsky.social 😍 Started off with the @icamobile.bsky.social pre-conference, where we co-organized a workshop - a big thank you especially to @aanixel.bsky.social @danilkowa.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social Arturo Cocchi

Fun times with the bear / in the shade!

Had a wonderful start to #ICA25 today at the @icamobile.bsky.social precon! Thanks to @joebayer.bsky.social @larawolfers.bsky.social and @aliciagilbert.bsky.social for collaborating on a flash talk and @danilkowa.bsky.social for helping co-lead-organize a wonderful workshop on #neurodiversity ✨✨

Don't miss the ICA Affiliate Journals: Global Top Papers Session — a showcase of cutting-edge research from around the world, selected by ICA’s affiliate journals. 📅 Friday, 13 June |📍 #ICA25 Denver buff.ly/De6K6eC

it’s a calling we live for this

👏 Congratulations to all the awardees! We’re proud to see such powerful work coming from our department.

Very proud of my student Lucia! It's a great pleasure to mentor such talented students ☺️

⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊

📣 We are thrilled to announce the 29th Workshop on Aggression, held on November 26-28, 2025, at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 🇨🇿. #woa2025 This year’s topic is Aggression, media, and digital technologies, but all aggression research topics are welcome. Call for papers: irtis.muni.cz/woa

The first preprint from my PhD is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...! 🥳 We explored the temporal dynamics of four careless responding indicators (response time, within-beep standard deviation, an inconsistency index, occasion-person correlation) in ESM data across different samples. Thread below🧵

Great resources for all experience sampling folks! 😍

We're on Bluesky! 🦋This is the official profile of the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, where we’ll share research insights, new publications, and updates from our participation in international conferences and events. Stay tuned and follow along!

In case you needed more evidence that social media may not be the thing we should be obsessing about when it comes to wellbeing…another meta-analysis of experimental data showing no link.

#IWD2025 is an important day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural & political achievements, but it's also a good occasion to call for gender equality. The #SheFigures report on R&I describes the challenges women researchers face, but also highlights ideas to help them. 🔗 buff.ly/3EJDkB4

Pleasure working together with @cybermarie.bsky.social on this (czech) blog about AI and deepfakes 🤖

🔥 Porn Studies turns 10! 🔥 A decade of critical conversations with Vol. 11, No. 4—our bumper 10th-anniversary issue is finally out! Packed with articles, interviews, and roundtables, this edition reflects on ten years of Porn Studies! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/c...

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.

Who is exposed to what? Our #OpenAccess book (by Peter Neijens, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social forms the basis of a symposium at @ascor.bsky.social today with a dozen state of the art presentations. #CommSky Link to the free OA book ⬇️ library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...