Working through this excellent podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and @peteetchells.bsky.social. What a brilliant resource that's plotting a fresh way forward. If you have parents who follow you, do share! screensensepodcast.substack.com

BattleTech (1994) #MegaDrive #Genesis

i think I had to do this to hack a terminal in bioshock

This is such a great initiative that scaffolds the *GULF* between families who want to play and quality gaming experiences.

Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room: 🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games ♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn 🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com 🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions ✏️ So many Guestbook comments www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is BACK! New episode: The Haidt of Hypocrisy: podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis... This week, we talk a lot about experts, complexity, and nuance. And how the political and media classes... seem to want to ignore all three in favor of clear, simple, & wrong.

On reflection, this is a really magical time to be on Bluesky. A quiet period before some important dynamics start to happen. I think things will start to change here because of things happening outside Bluesky and the things happening under Bluesky.

Wonderful to read when good things happen to great people.

🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha... @johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social

I'm away until later this week so I haven't deep-dived into the teen social media ban's tech trial report, but I thought it was notable that Nine/Today's tech commentator Trevor Long said the report shows how "age assurance doesn't work"

There's no reason not to share data from a systematic literature review, other than cowardice.

This image captures everything that we've learned from four decades of scientific research.

Itchio geo-restrictions due to OSA 👇

What if we thought about digital behaviour not in terms of the form that it takes but the psychological functions that it serves? In this preprint we introduce technological behaviourism, a theoretical approach grounded in operant conditioning. @shuhbillskee.bsky.social

Are you interested what we talked about at our symposium on the next big questions on #loneliness? The program and most presentations can now be found here: osf.io/s3fw6/files/.... Thank you to all presenters who agreed to share their talks and posters with the rest of the world!

Genuinely happy I completed out a brief survey from and learned my copy #OneBillionUsers: The Social Media Card Game is coming our way soon! I might have to smuggle a few copies into halls of power around these parts... More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

EFF has been saying this for years: School monitoring software sacrifices student privacy for unproven promises of safety.

It's great to finally have something to share from this collaboration. We started working on this idea in late 2022... We argue that research on MMT and attentional control has neglected intra-individual variation in control. This holds significant implications for theory and research design.

How do we ask better research questions about tech & mental health? In Ep 5 of Screen Sense, @shuhbillskee.bsky.social & I dig into why the research is messy, what better studies look like & how the public debate makes it harder to get clear answers. screensensepodcast.substack.com/p/episode-5-...

"It is unlikely that a game like this will encourage real world gardening any more than Super Mario Wonder encourages plumbing." 🌻🪠 The thoughts of Prof Andrew K. Przybylski. For BBC News, I have been finding out all about the new Roblox sensation - Grow a Garden www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Great piece exploring the impact of the latest Roblox sensation, Grow A Garden, with expert comment from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social @mentalhealthoii.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk. Thanks for sharing @grahamjfraser.bsky.social. #gaming

Quick reminder for everyone sharing the new “ChatGPT makes you dumb” paper with "SEE I TOLD YOU" messaging.

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social entering the multiverse and explaining how time dimensions of digital media use help explain why we sometimes find effects on well-being — and sometimes do not ⏱️📱 #ica25

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...

What a fun "tip of the iceberg" kind of conversation this was! Really fascinating how the landscape between science, policy, and caregiver needs has shifted in recent years.

Good things happen for good people!

🎙️Screen Sense - new podcast with me and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social, is launching next week! Two psychologists (and dads) talking honestly about what it means to raise a family in a screen-filled world - with science, real stories and zero guilt. Launching 13th June. screensensepodcast.substack.com

It’s kinda wild how psychologists will just keep developing “paradigms” targeting estimands that are less and less plausibly empirically identified, because somehow that’s the epitome of rigorous theorizing (tm)

This is worth reading (re: the recent social media consensus preprint): www.science.org/content/arti...

Interested in improving researcher's access to social media data? Kate Dommett and myself are hiring for a Research Fellow (1 year; based at Sheffield) for an exciting new project to be announced soon: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses. Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b... #stats #metascience

“I think we desperately need to take some of the heat out of this debate,” @peteetchells.bsky.social says. “And this paper, for me, doesn’t do that. It has the potential to go the other way.” www.science.org/content/arti...

... Consensus. You can't beat it.

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

WTF is this? "It sums to 100% because the denominator is 'number of checkboxes clicked'. I don’t think that’s a useful denominator. People who checked no box are excluded and you can’t interpret the percentage as the number of experts who endorsed X." rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2025-0...

New post: I was curious about the consensus statement on social media effect and wondered how the sausage gets made. rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2025-0...

These claims and the idea that attitudes about them is diagnostic of scientific evidence linking social media to youth mental health is nonsensical. Many, like "exposure to mental disorders" do make a sad kind of sense if you're familiar with their polemical origins. www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-...

Wait, the GOP put a culture warrior — who literally wrote in his application to Trump that he would "Fight back against the trans agenda" — in charge of the FTC... and he fills a "child safety" event full of anti-LGBTQ activists. What a shock.

🎓 I’m pleased to share that my doctoral thesis is now available for download (freely – it's Open Access!) from the Oxford University Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

Almost 15 years of replication crisis in psychology we get this high profile paper on social media and mental health research... Like Bem and PSI, studying of how this paper - and its popular framing - saw the light of day, will teach us a lot about how psychologists evaluate evidence quality.

"Evidence is mixed" ("missing/uncertain" would have been a better option) should have been the answer for most of these. These "experts" lack humility.

New causal inference strategy just dropped, identification by Family Feud: “We asked 100 people…”

I wrote a bit more about the evidence for teen mental health declines here. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t... Many of the people who I think gave a more balanced account are not part of this consensus.

Where Science Meets Discourse: What a Flawed Commentary of Three Papers Can Teach Us About Research on Well-Being in the Digital Age: https://osf.io/v54tp

While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.

Ah, the simple joy of being abroad and encountering incomprehensible podcast adverts.

🌟 KIDS, TEENS, SCREENS + SOCIAL MEDIA 🌟 I’m excited to share this fascinating chat I had with @peteetchells.bsky.social, author of Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time and How To Spend It Better youtu.be/CDklRSfl8og We explore the following questions, submitted to us on Instagram: (cont)

"It's more insightful to start with how young people actually use social media, rather than assume it's harming them. If research focuses on their real experiences, we can better understand their struggles and see use of social media as a symptom, not a cause, of their mental health conditions."