The next step is to examine the overlap of existing psychopathology and gaming disorder in the brain 🧠

Ask me how I know the school year started today.

Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/

::slowly stands while clapping::

📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling? I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi! www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...

How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…

Still thinking about the fun I had and how much I learned at #ica25!

Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 1) Congrats to these presenters!!🎉

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

And that’s a wrap for us at #ICA2025! Thank you to all the presenters, attendees, and our amazing officers for working year round and making this happen. See you next year at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 at Capetown☀️

Amazing works were presented at our Top Paper sessions (Part 2)Congrats to these presenters!!🎉

In a new piece, Dr. Robin Nabi and I discuss the space between fear-based bans and full digital freedom: The Digital Middle. (See link below)⬇️ There is a middle ground but it is up to each parent to evaluate where there child is at and what is best for them #commsky #psychsky

Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.

Presenting at #ICA25 😴📱 #Smartphones are often seen as #sleep disruptors - but the relationship is complex. Using data donated from iPhones & Apple Watches, we uncovered how smartphone use and sleep reciprocally affect each other. 🗓 Sunday, 12–1pm, 📍"Mobile Methods", Centennial G (Regency 3)

@gongxuanjun.bsky.social giving a wonderful talk on narrative impact & success (w @richardhuskey.bsky.social & @aeden.bsky.social) by using narrative structural models of networked characters & events to model popularity of a novel at #CommHorizons2025

A great photo of @rachaelkee.bsky.social inspiring us with her brilliant ideas for a sleep and media data donation app. KEEp your eye out for her at #ica25

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

@rachaelkee.bsky.social blowing us all away with her project at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. Super impressive project with the goal of collecting high-throughput sleep and media data ✨😴📺 #ICA25

Headed to #ica25? So are we! The CCS Lab is sharing 3 projects—including a Top Paper—on how we choose what to watch, read & click We use computational modeling & neuroimaging to study how curiosity, value & emotion influence media choice Talks by @rachaelkee.bsky.social & @gongxuanjun.bsky.social

Where will you be hacking during #ICA25? We’re thrilled to be hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) at UC Boulder — join us in their state-of-the-art CMCI Studio: www.colorado.edu/cmci/facilit... #hackica25 👨‍💻

Whoop whoop we’re ready to get started!

Welcome to #hackica25 & #ica25 everyone! We‘re starting the morning with our project pitches. Big thanks to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for designing our awesome stickers again! 💛🧡❤️

Kicking off our fourth(!) annual #hackica this year at @colorado.edu. This is always the highlight of ICA. Super excited to get hacking! #hackica25

Thanks to our Git master @jacobtfisher.online for giving a workshop on version control with Git and GitHub 🙌

Looking forward to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social explaining how brain imaging fits into comms research at #hackica25 🧠🧠

Kylie does nothing but impress! & wait… I think I heard she’s on the job market. 😉

The thought bubble says “statistically significant” but the poster shows posterior probability distributions. Either way, both frequentists & Bayesians can agree that @rachaelkee.bsky.social did a great job presenting the lab’s work on the negativity bias at #APS25DC. Way to go Rachael!

Wishing I was back at #APS25DC @psychscience.bsky.social! Had so much fun talking all things psych science, and sharing our drift diffusion modeling projects showing preferential evidence accumulation for negative news headlines in both a nationally representative sample and fMRI study. 📰🧠

Day two of #CommHorizons2025 @ucdavis.bsky.social! Ziyu Zhao and @rachaelkee.bsky.social presented their drift diffusion modeling projects showing preferential evidence accumulation for negative news headlines in a nationally representative sample (Ziyu) and fMRI study (Rachael)

Huge thanks to the amazing team who made this possible: Jorge Peña, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, Michael Andrews, William Weisman, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Valerie Klein, Sophia Sarieva, Raymond Kang, Ralf Schmälzle, Jeff Hancock & all of our participants. This one took a village.

After nearly 6 years, I'm delighted to share a new paper in Journal of Media Psychology: "Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0". We studied cooperation using AR & low-cost EEG hyperscanning (doi.org/10.1027/1864...). 🧵Here’s how it started, what we found, & why it matters

When we sleep = when we eat = how we eat = how we live = how we eat = when we eat = how we sleep = how we feel Everything is connected. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We need to stop forcing kiddos (who are already so vulnerable in today's crazy landscape) to wake up at the crack of dawn. Don't we want them to be set up for success? Don't we want them to thrive? Here's a review. #StartSchoolLater link.springer.com/article/10.1...

USA has sprung forward for their clock change this last weekend Though UK change a few weekends away yet, as good a time as any to remind that @britishsleepsoc.bsky.social - like most sleep science organisations - advocates for Standard Time the whole year onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited that our new paper @ABSjournal titled "Moving Behavioral Experimentation Online: A Tutorial and Some Recommendations for Drift Diffusion Modeling" is out! Open access link: doi.org/10.1177/0002...

🥳🥳🥳 Excited to announce that our new publication: Consider the time dimension: theorizing and formalizing sequential media selection is out at Human Communication Research!!! URL: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

🥳🥳🥳 Super excited to announce that our new publication: Media selection is highly predictable, in principle is out @computationalcommunication.org URL: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

🚨 Join us for #CommHorizons25, hosted by the Department of Communication @ucdavis.bsky.social! Theme: Media, Health, & Society: Exploring Wellbeing Across Lifespans & Diverse Communities Keynotes: Drs. Dana Mastro & @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social. Info: communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

When I published that blog, I didn't know I'd become social psych's Judas. Turns out questioning our field's methods is a great way to lose friends! I spent years plunged in a despondency. Ten years later, I'm still skeptical, just grayer and at peace. Come join my midlife crisis.

Reminder: Don't forget to register for #hackica25 - spots are limited! ✨

We’re so excited for another year of the ICA hackathon! A huge shoutout to our longtime sponsor, the Computational Methods division at @icahdq.bsky.social for supporting the hacker spirit year after year. Let’s dive deep into computational methods at #hackica25 in Boulder, CO! 🔥 #ICA25 💫

I'm proud to announce that today I won the first round of the UC system Grad Slam (3 minute flash talks across disciplines) from presenting my research entitled "Breaking the Media Panic Cycle". Wish me luck in the next round on April 3rd! 🤞 #UCgradslam #researchsky

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🚀 #hackica25 registration is open! 🚀 Spots are limited—secure yours now: forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... 📅 June 11-12, 2025 📍 UC Boulder (shuttle from Denver available) No coding skills required! Join us to explore methodological & substantive challenges in communication science. See you there! 🍻

The countdown to #hackica25 registration is on – and we couldn’t do it without our longtime sponsors! Huge thanks to the UC Davis Department of Communication for their support year after year 🫶 Your contribution helps hackers bring ideas to life💡🔥

The ICA Hackathon is genuinely one of the things I look forward to most each year. If you want to learn new skills, meet some of the brightest, most collaborative people in the field, and get your hands dirty with computational methods, I highly recommend making time to join us this year!

Going to #ica25? Then consider coming a few days early to attend the hackathon! Fantastic event!

Reminder since #ICA25 registration is open now! 💻🤓 Ours opens soon, so hang tight—we offer fun coding sessions, breakout sessions, and beer waiting for you afterward! 🍻

🚨 Big news! 🚨 Another year of ICA, another pre-conference hackathon: The 2025 hackathon is happening in Boulder on June 11-12! Stay tuned 🚀

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