Two new papers from the lab on research practices in security & privacy research: 1) Reliability of measures and the use of Cronbach's α osf.io/preprints/ps..., 2) Practices around retraction and correction notices by ACM and IEEE (osf.io/preprints/ps...)

Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

🚨New pre-print🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

This is excellent work lead by Dr. @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social and supported by our @oii.ox.ac.uk team, international scholars, and wider global web of those invested in improving the science of video games. If you're interested advancing the open science study of video games check this out!

1/5 📱 Gendered Associations Between Social Media Usage & Adolescent Life Satisfaction Our new study (w/ Ricarda Ullrich) finds no one-size-fits-all "social media effect". The link is deeply gendered and context-dependent. 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1186/s405...

📣 New preprint! We brought together experts from academia, major video game studios, NGOs, funding bodies, and civil society groups to ask: what should be prioritised when it comes to the future of video games? 🧵

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

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...

Academic folks: I'm looking to try and find one more good, accessible overview article (undergrad level) on the current impact of AI on each of tv, film, music and videogaming for my #WebMedia unit running this (Australian) semester. Recommendations, please? #AcademicSky

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Foody et al 2013 has over 130 citations (top 1%) as support for an element of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's model, but it contains no evidence for that claim. This is a case study in flawed original studies being cited favorably and uncritically until it becomes a common scientific belief.🧵

Our preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Services like RegCheck are extremely promising for moving norms forward from doing open science practices to doing open science practices well.

New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025" doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

📽️ "Taboo topics we can no longer avoid: negligence, tampering, and fraud" / with Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io youtu.be/sdRRafephyM?... The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel @swissrn.bsky.social

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking on a panel for the WHO webinar Social Health and Digital Play: A Conversation, Not a Conclusion. I’ll be sharing insights from a recent Delphi study focusing on priorities and future directions in video game research. If this topic is of interest, feel free to join!

Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data:

Thrilled to have our new scoping review examining the longitudinal effects of social media on sleep in youth in Computers in Human Behavior Reports www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Some interesting points discussed here including media literacy, parental roles, access to news, and abstinence campaigns. Worth a listen!

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

"They shouldn't be banning us. They should be teaching us." – Anonymous, 10 What 17,000+ young Australians think about the upcoming social media ban

Young Australians told researchers they see benefits and harms of social media. But they rarely see parents and other adults acknowledging this nuance or displaying understanding of how it works. When it comes to the ban, teens don't think they're being listened to www.crikey.com.au/20...

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

We invite you to the upcoming Online Talk with Flavio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social 9 December: Building the Future of Open, Inclusive, and Rigorous Research with FORRT- a global initiative that develops structures for open and transparent research education. Registration: eveeno.com/215884837

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...

🚨 Preprint alert: Do 1) smartphone event log data access and 2) the Experience Sampling Method cause reactivity effects in studies? @dougaparry.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, and I investigated this very question using data from 815 German Android users. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Pretty cool is an understatement. There is 1.5 million hours of video game play recorded, via telemetry data! This is a very cool study🎮

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social

This informative thread is essential reading for anyone in science, in my opinion!

and other lies I tell myself

🎉 📣 Out now in Communication Research! 📣 🎉 What makes us stop using #media in a specific situation? A new study by my great co-author @annastockmann.bsky.social and me examines situational #disengagement from #TikTok and #Instagram. 📱 🔚 Find the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Me to the OSF website when it stops responding

Behaviour doesn’t occur in a vacuum. If social media is meeting a need in young people’s lives, that need won’t just disappear if we ban the platforms. It will go unmet. We need to address the need, not just the tool.

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

Just a few more days until our FREE workshop: "Demystifying Data Donation Methods to Advance Digital Health Research" sponsored by TYDE and CERES tyde.virginia.edu/event/demyst... Saturday, Oct. 25 from 11am-5pm ET / 8am - 2pm PT Learn more about using passive data in mental health research

New hobby: Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out! open.lnu.se/index.php/me...