I will move into a co-housing project soon, a building where all neighbors know and like each other :). We are planning to offer 2 flats to families with a refugee background & are collecting starter funding for these 2 flats via crowdfunding (with many goodies!). www.startnext.com/en/soliwohnu...

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

How the Social Media Ban Harms Children *Social media is a life line for socially excluded children

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

I had an inspiring & relaxed conversation with @ohan.bsky.social for his podcast. We chat about emotions & social identity as crucial for understanding misinformation & beliefs, and about many myths surrounding misinformation on social media. www.monkeydancepod.com/episodes/epi.... Thanks Ohan!

Are you interested in what science says about the effects of therapy? Listen to the interview that Dr. Anya Borissova had with me on The Thinking Mind Podcast thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...

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....

Ich bin nicht leicht stolz auf Dinge. Aber über diesen Podcast freu ich mich riesig :) Es war großartig, sich mit Andreas zu unterhalten, der alle Buchempfehlungen schon im Voraus gelesen hat. Wir reden über Manipulation, Social Media, Fake News, Filter Bubbles & Co. open.spotify.com/episode/7h7Q...

Nature goes full open review! I have complicated feelings about how and when this was achieved! And they should be apparent to you after even a moment’s thought about the subtext here! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Stop Blaming Social Media for Everything: The Minimal Effects of Facebook in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election www.jonathanmladd.com/uploads/5/3/...

Another study showing sample sizes in psychology increase over time. Several reasons, but that the increase is stronger in journals with stronger open science policies is interesting. Triangulation with other studies (done in the discussion) suggests better research practices are one cause.

Wow, was für ein Buch. Fast alles, was wir über Social Media denken, ist falsch. Echo Kammern, Bubbles, Fake News als Riesenproblem. Newsletter-Beitrag und Podcast-Episode dazu folgt. Tipp von @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, Autor @chrisbail.bsky.social amzn.to/4hJCu5m

Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und wir haben keinen Zugriff? Ein ziemlicher Skandal, denn schließlich haben wir für diese Forschung ja mit unseren Steuergeldern bezahlt! Bei MAITHINK X decken wir heute auf, wie milliardenschwere Verlage die Wissenschaft im Würgegriff haben! Schaut rein! 🧐

A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

New study from @csh.ac.at debunks claims of bias against conservative news outlets by @newsguard.bsky.social csh.ac.at/news/newsgua... With @julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social #misinformation #mediabias #trustworthiness #newsguard

I just go the info that there are there are 5 PhD positions available at the newly founded Vienna Digital Humanism college. For students from Computer or Data Science as well from the social sciences. Extended application deadline 31/01/25. More info here: www.wwtf.at/impact-proje...

😡Emotions ≠ 🤓Reasoning?! Nope! 😎 @apeksha.bsky.social's & @julaluehring.bsky.social's first PhD paper on recognizing COVID-19 misinformation & links with emotions got accepted! If you haven't already seen the preprint, have a look at the paper or this 🧵! doi.org/10.1186/s412...

I have an open 3-year PostDoc position in my research group, centered on the extraction and analysis of relations of societal actors (e.g. politicians, CEOs, ...) from unstructured text data. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! Deadline is Jan 1st. jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/a122...

Why do people write and reshare posts on public platforms like Twitter (back then)? People answered right after sharing each post. And which emotions are expressed in posts shared to express opinions & identity, to inform & influence others, to socialize & get attention or to provoke?

Starting pack for CSH. Looking to add more people who should be in this!

With BlueArk, you can migrate your tweets from X/Twitter to Bluesky quickly, securely and with the original date of each post. We preserve your stories, your media and your most relevant content on a new platform, without losing anything along the way. 🪽 blueark.app/en-us/

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

I created this starter pack of researchers based in Europe who study misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda. I suspect this list will grow -- get in touch with suggestions go.bsky.app/36RdG8Z

This is making the rounds so it's probably a good point to put the cold wet blanket on it. The gist is that the paper claims LLMs can accurately predict the outcomes of experiments. This figure captures the gist of it. I'm not convinced. treatmenteffect.app/paper.pdf

Ich wurde zum 1. Mal in ner Doku interviewt, und finde sie insgesamt sehr gelungen, mit einer ausgeglichenen Perspektive aufs Thema. :) Ich sprech darüber, ob Social Media uns wütender machen, oder ob das vielleicht nur so scheint. Das Interview hat echt Spaß gemacht! tv.orf.at/dok-1/dok424...

I just listened to my first interview as a podcast guest, and am surprised how competent this person on the podcast sounds! Nice to enjoy listening to myself, I was afraid I wouldn't. 😅 I talk about misinfo, social media and climate change (in German): www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Telegram Data Gatherer FROG - mega! #dgpuk2024

Reading editorial guidelines has never made me so happy before :)

Build a healthier online community. The Prosocial Design Network curates and researches evidence-based design solutions to bring out the best in human nature online. Here is their library of interventions that help foster more accurate and civil discourse online: www.prosocialdesign.org#library

Eine offiziell anerkannte medizinische Diagnose von Social Media-Sucht gebe es dabei bislang nicht. "Aber nur weil es diese Diagnose nicht gibt, ist es ja nicht so, dass es das Phänomen nicht gibt", so Dienlin. Deutsche Welle Artikel "Was tun gegen Social Media-Sucht?" www.dw.com/de/was-tun-g...

In the end, it is just a logical conclusion every time I think about it again. I donate 10% of my income to effective charities. Realizing that I earn more than 98% of people on this planet was maybe the biggest reason for this decision. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation. I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.

We (@zpid.bsky.social) are hiring 3 assistant profs (GER Jun-Prof) with tenure track and reduced teaching load in -Science Acceptance, -Psychological Metascience, and -Big Data in Psychology An attractive startup package is available. Questions? Feel free to contact me! l.ead.me/zpid_w1_prof

Our paper "High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioral findings is achievable" appears today in Nature Human Behaviour. Just as the large replications provided an inflection point in identifying replicability challenges, this paper does so for solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...