Monday next week, 5 pm, I’ll deliver my UZH inaugural lecture. Title: „Ban, improve, or ignore? Social Media Regulation from a Communication Research Perspective“ The talk is open to the public: you can join either on-site or via live-stream. Details, see: www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

Welche Rolle spielt die SRG SSR im Mediensystem der Schweiz? Als Beitrag zur Debatte über die "Halbierungsinitiative" haben wir ein Factsheet zusammengestellt - mit Daten zur Mediennutzung (@reutersinstitute.bsky.social) und zur Qualität der Berichterstattung. www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/news/2026... 1/x

Our first issue of the PROMISE 3+3 Newsletter is out - a new way to follow our research on social media policies, and youth well-being! 1/4

We are facing a transformative phenomenon in digital space: AI chatbots. Are they perceived as social beings...or just machines? How does that shape how we chat—and whether we end up bonding with them? We tackle these questions with the AI Relationship Process Framework: arxiv.org/abs/2601.17351

New preprint by @naru96.bsky.social and @tobiasdienlin.com!

Very much looking forward to reading this 🍿

To help our @ikmz.bsky.social students write their master thesis, we developed a guide with tips and tricks. If you're interested, you can download it here👇 drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/... Feel free to reuse it or provide feedback!

Today, we presented the main results of the mental health days study 2025 (N = 8.177). Results > In May 2025, Austria implemented a nationwide smartphone-ban at schools > Compared to 2024, smartphone use went down by 30 mins > Life satisfaction went up (5.36 to 5.52) > Depression sank (15% to 12%)

Starting now: press conference where we present the Mental Health Days Study 2025. Livestream/rewatch: www.mentalhealthdays.eu

Have you conducted a content analysis and want to share your variable operationalizations? Or are you about to start one? If so, check out DOCA: a great openscience initiative offering a shared database of content-analytical variables for communication science. ➡️ www.hope.uzh.ch/doca

𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 🎉from the Media Psychology Division of the DGPs! We wish everyone a happy and successful 2026. Some activities and opportunities in our community were already highlighted in our December newsletter, in case you missed it:

A belated post: @shinyikang.bsky.social also co-published “A quarter century of advances in collaboration sensing: a comprehensive review of high-frequency metrics and their connection to collaborative constructs from 2000 to 2025” in ijCSCL 📊👏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Starting off 2026 with a publication! @shinyikang.bsky.social co-published a paper on creative AI literacy education and ethics, titled “Ethical Thinking: Integration and Measurement in an AI Curriculum for Middle-High School Students” in Informatics in Education 🎨🤖🌍 infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFE...

"Finding hope in Hegel" Wrote a short post for @acadianjprof.bsky.social's end of year newsletter on "what's bringing you hope". Strongly inspired by Alain de Botton and Hans Rosling.

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 ❄️☕️🦦)

Our member @philippesloksnath.bsky.social, together with @saarataavila.bsky.social were awarded with the KLI PhD Seedgrant (€ 3000) for their project related with JRP (@jresearcherprog.bsky.social): Knowing What We Don't Know: Targeting Overconfidence to Combat Misinformation. Congratulations 🎉👏

What’s just as cringe as listening to your own voice recording? Seeing yourself in a magazine 🙂 All jokes aside, I was interviewed about chatbot companionship and loneliness by a lovely journalist—so much fun (and yes, they even mailed a copy to zurich!!). 🔗 wienerin.at/lifestyle/de...

Dear Santa, a GRC travel grant is *exactly* what I wished for this Christmas. It’s so amazing that UZH & the Graduate Campus support early-career researchers. Can’t wait to visit VU Amsterdam and collaborate with @thvu.bsky.social this upcoming spring!

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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!

Hit 100 citations on Google Scholar today, yay! 🥳 Somewhere out there, a hundred people found my work useful… or at least cite-able. Thank you my friends 🫂

Schon gewusst? Das fög hat einen eigenen Newsletter. 📬 Mehrmals im Jahr gibt’s kompakte Updates zu Forschungsprojekten, Publikationen, Events und mehr. 👉 Abo: web.swissnewsletter.ch/e/f0ca2749b7... 👀 Letzte Ausgabe Dezember 2025: web.swissnewsletter.ch/e/f0ca2749b7... Bild: rinckad (Unsplash)

We just wrapped an energizing 2-day workshop in Nuremberg - the first in-person meeting of the full PROMISE team! Hosted by our colleagues at Friedrich-Alexander University, the meetup marked a first milestone in our 3-year international project. (1/4)

I introduced #openscience practices in my undergrad BA thesis seminar and offered bonus points for applying them (inspired by @tobiasdienlin.com) So happy to see that students find it useful. Some are already running a priori power analyses. Makes me genuinely happy 😊

All bundled up during an individual session I held on parasocial encounters in @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social’s Health Communication seminar 🧣 Thanks so much for the invitation (and great pic!) 💫

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 🫕�