PhD project: Can young people’s cognitive style explain associations between social media use and mental health? www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Supervisory Team: Dr Katherine Button, Professor David Ellis, University of Bath, Dr Becky Mars, University of Bristol.

PhD project: Can young people’s cognitive style explain associations between social media use and mental health? www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Supervisory Team: Dr Katherine Button, Professor David Ellis, University of Bath, Dr Becky Mars, University of Bristol.

Shape the Future of Digital Health Education - join the groundbreaking EPSRC-funded LEAP Hub at the @uniofbath.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... .

'Optimeet: A computational tool to enhance participant attendance in group research' In this paper we discuss the challenges of conducting group based research and provide a practical, web-based tool that can enhance the scheduling and recruitment of groups for experimental research.

An interesting paper that reminds us that psychometric standards in psychology are often not up to the task. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The term 'Chartered Psychologist' is now legally protected, which will finally put a stop to the rampant epidemic of people pretending to be chartered psychologists at dinner parties.

We are at the British Science Festival @britsciassoc.bsky.social today in Liverpool (Kazimier Garden - Kaz Garden). Come and say hello if you are about - mega busy tho! britishsciencefestival.org/event/tech-v... with @lukaszpiwek.bsky.social

Another day, another 'Data available on request' request meets the same fate as my childhood letters to the Tooth Fairy. Honestly, it should just read 'Data available on request (terms and conditions apply: must sacrifice first-born child, solve world hunger, and correctly guess my favorite colour).

Lab members watching the PI give a talk on zoom

Apple Rumored to Be Developing First Foldable Flip Phone, Set for 2026 Release news.ssbcrack.com/apple-rumore... My thoughts = flip phones provide a bit of nostalgia, but that doesn't guarantee success.

Now published, the #DECIDEFramework in #AMPPS. Here we provide a suite of resources to support researchers with ethical considerations in digital behavioural research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Better late than never I suppose.

True, we are probably expecting too much of publishers. Also true: publishers went actively in the opposite direction, *mass commissioning* articles with the special-issue model. MDPI was first, but recently *everyone* is doing it, e.g. the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

When should we have discussions about ethics during the research process ? Looking forward to presenting the DECIDE framework today at #Cyber25 @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social

This appears to be a form of de-evolution, or backward evolution.

Confirmed @ref2029.bsky.social policy: 'Institutions must demonstrate a substantive link to the research output being submitted through an eligible employment relationship.' This will hopefully limit hiring decisions based entirely on 'they have published this thing, so we should hire them for REF'.

It's a Pet Sounds kind of evening. RIP Brian Wilson.

@uniofbath.bsky.social - new Guidelines for Authorship and Acknowledgements. These guidelines aim to ensure everyone who is conducting or supporting research – regardless of role, seniority or job family – receives appropriate credit for their contributions. www.bath.ac.uk/legal-inform...

'We replaced a word in a scale with another word. This is all fine'.

After many years of searching, I have completed my New Order cassette collection. Factory Records launched a series of boxed cassettes for a limited section of its roster sometime in the 1980s. They contain miniature replicas of the original artwork.

A common sentiment is “I can’t share my code because it’s messy and there might be errors” But if it’s that untrustworthy, why are you publishing the results it generates?

Like others, I dropped out of the process because it was bonkers. Beyond the specific topic, it illustrates major meta-scientific problems that include, but are not limited to, wasting resources and drawing inaccurate conclusions from the available data. www.science.org/content/arti...

I’d *love* to work in a field of research where expert consensus meant that there’s strong & compelling evidence to believe something. Unfortunately often such evidence does not exist, and experts can agree for all sorts of reasons.>

The first paper from PhD student Luis Ney Quiterio Montero compares two root canal disinfection methods. Both showed comparable effectiveness in promoting healing. doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

Surely, if network science can point towards the next Pope, it can also have a go at determining who might win this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The Bath Digital Festival is taking place next week. On Wednesday, the 14th of May (14:30–15:30), a few of us will discuss what it means to grow up in a world where technology is always on, always present, and always evolving. @drlivbrown.bsky.social Tickets here lnkd.in/dDF5_k8k

This is great. In terms of making rigorous criticism/important comments on publications more common, the British Medical Journal has a rapid response system that works well. Short contributions appear as electronic comments, with some later being published online and in print as letters.

Recently did the annual walk through of our totally normal publishing system for my undergraduate research methods students. Never fails to boggle their minds.

Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns retractionwatch.com/2025/04/28/e...

The UKRI has published a new draft research data policy. The policy will update and streamline UKRI's expectations for sharing and managing research data and other digital objects, such as software and code. Feedback on the draft can be made here engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...

Article alert 📣 New excellent piece on health inequalities from our own Prof Mhairi Mackenzie & colleagues from @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uniofbath.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk & Homeless Network Scotland 👏 #OpenAccess in Social Science & Medicine now: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When the original Apple iPhone launched in 2007, only 15 apps were available to download. Today there are now 1.5 million.

I was a month out with this one.

What does openness and transparency in qualitative methods mean to you? 🧐 If you're interested in these discussions, join our european open qualitative research community here: forms.gle/EbC2CsjPbw6t... #openresearch #qualitative #metaresearch

www.newscientist.com/article/2472... I was involved with some ADHD related research once + provided a few thoughts:)

WATCH: Dr Olivia Brown, who studies radicalisation and extremism at the University of Bath, appears on BBC Breakfast to discuss the impact of readily available online gore and website sharing death videos. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @idsbbath.bsky.social #Radicalisation #Research

When it comes to understanding technology, scholars need to be experimenting with said technology before writing about it or conducting research. I suspect this provides an ethnographic understanding that filters into everything else. It's obvious when this is missing.

Turns out there are already 4 of them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Remember @ukri.org are signatories of DORA (sfdora.org) so there is zero point banging on about how you will publish in x journal due to y metric or imaginary prestige factor. It's a waste of words and no one cares.

Looks like the US might be having a bit of a Liz Truss moment in the markets.

"Citations drop after scientists accused of sexual misconduct but not scientific misconduct" www.science.org/content/arti...

New meta-analysis of experiments of social media use reduction finds no evidence that reducing social media use improves mental wellness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I've only taken a quick look thus far but this replicates my own meta-analysis from last year. Always nice to see.

Just asked AI to create a scale about AI addiction = META. BAD META.

I can feel it in my bones. A paper will appear any day now on how we are all 'addicted' to AI. It will be accompanied by a dumb scale that includes moronic items. It will then be translated into a dozen languages on the erroneous assumption that this makes it a valid construct.

Bravo @plos.org! US exec orders "stand in direct conflict with our core values, our mission, edit policies" "PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science" theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

0.006p per minute for secure and accurate transcription via AI. Traditional transcription services are probably finished.

Two twin funding initiatives providing a fantastic and pretty unique opportunity for talented individuals to develop post-doc expertise through fellowships on the impact of AI in science. UKRI: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... & Alfred Sloan Foundation: apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo... #metascience

No, it's not. It's very different.

‘There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents’ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

People keep asking me about smartphone bans in schools... this is worth a read www.digital-futures-for-children.net/smartphone-p...