doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Kids with ‘developmental delay’ will be diverted from the #NDIS. But what is a #developmentaldelay? See our (with @suze-freogirl.bsky.social) recent piece in #TheConversation for an overview of this term, and which children are affected by funding changes. Read here: lnkd.in/ggh2Qpr4

I had the pleasure of chatting with Gareth King for his podcast series 'Ruined By The Internet' where we discussed the evidence about the ways in which our digital behaviour has and not impacted our attention and focus

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

🎓 Fully funded PhD @curtinuniversity.bsky.social! Explore how to improve #MentalHealth accessibility for people with #language difficulties. Interdisciplinary and stakeholder-driven. Join me, @me-boyo.bsky.social & Dr Brooke Ryan. Apply by Aug 18: research.curtin.edu.au/higher-degre... #PhD

I love it that Alan Kohler is sticking with his coverage of the #HousingCrisis in #Auspol ... "Having the most expensive housing in the world, can't go on!" Have to 1000% agree with him... ALP you were given a mandate for a reason, do something substantive about this! youtu.be/-iEQRXi8OTA?...

This is pretty shattering. Did my work experience as a deckie out to the rowley shoals when I was 16. Such an incredible and rare place www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd6F... A little code specific but very much resonated with the conclusion of this: "It seems like everywhere you go on the internet right now you'll find clueless optimists is saying that 90% of white collar work will be eliminated by AI within the next 5 years....

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

This is what evidence-based thinking should be like, namely attentive mixing of statistical and mechanistic analysis, taking full account of moral stakes. Bravo and thanks to @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Europe👇

Wresting the core tenets of stoicism from the superchuds 🤌

I've stopped posting on Twitter and Threads. I'll stop interacting there and lock those accounts at the end of the week. If you have colleagues who used to follow me on those platforms, feel free to let them know, and that they can follow me here or Mastodon instead. 🙏

You would think that ABC News' "Donald Trump’s inauguration — in pictures" might have seen fit to include this one www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

🔥🔥🔥 "Myth five: Compared with other harms, the harm of social media use is far greater. Warranted claim five: Once the primary predictors of well- and ill-being are accounted for, social media use is a negligible factor in explaining variance in well- and ill-being." www.jmir.org/2024/1/e59585

Write up of my PhD student, Chloe Jones' research on social media and mental health. The 'effect on' language is a little heavy handed (as cross-sectional research) but otherwise captures some of the major implications well www.psypost.org/new-study-ch...

Thoughtful critique of highly influential trauma book www.motherjones.com/media/2024/1...

New paper examining ob/subjective measures of smartphone use Pithy abstract quote: "These findings... make a strong case that it is time to abandon the use of self-report measures of smartphone use in research on its effects." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If I used this approach at work, I'd be fired for being incompetent. So would any project manager anywhere in business. #auspol

My PhD student Chloe Jones outlining how the links between social media use and mental health are less robust when research uses directly observed measures from mobile data. youtu.be/-GK_gpe1oOE?...