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...

@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...

Just a thought but academics on limited contracts doing major teaching and research load at universities want stability and transparent rules on job prospects not a “postdoc appreciation week” #ichbinhanna

I was thrilled to be invited to contribute to a forthcoming special issue for The Psychologist magazine called "Psychology needs a ... revolution". I wrote about AI and its use in psychology: particularly how we can learn lessons from the past to avoid repeating old mistakes. @psychmag.bsky.social

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

Asking the users themselves, how does social media affect their well-being? In a large-scale study we find: Social media has a negative but small effect. Other aspects s/a listening to music appear more relevant. Effects differ across users and countries. 🧵1/6 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CSU is my alma mater and I cannot recommend it enough. If you’re a clinical psychologist, definitely apply when the ads go up🐏

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 This project has truly been a labour of love, but I'm eternally grateful for the support and guidance of my co-authors @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social and Chris Fullwood. Very glad that these voices and stories have a home. www.frontiersin.org/journals/dig...

If you need someone to teach you R skills, Ian and his adorably-logo’d package are your guy

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects

I'll take this opportunity to re-share my most cherished work, originally written one day in 2020 to avoid doing the stuff I actually needed to do. It is a quick read, and you might get a laugh: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our (@malte.the100.ci, @ianhussey.mmmdata.io) commentary "cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant" has just been accepted for publication at PNAS! Check out the thread below for a summary of our arguments. osf.io/preprints/ps...

As we talk about the cheerful insanity of Australia's Social Media Ban again this morning, here's your periodical reminder that the book it's inspired by - The Anxious Generation - is hogwash. Not just me saying it, but this little journal you might have heard of: Nature. www.nature.com/artic...

Today Ive written about the Dopamine Myth...the belief dopamine makes activities like video games or social media "addictive". All the talk of "dopamine hits" is pseudoscientific nonsense...neither reflecting how brains nor pleasant activities work. www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

Fixed that for you, @nature.com

I think we are walking into the same traps with AI as we did with social media: information technologies are making new areas and scales available, but they are not neutral but built by people and companies for certain goals and won’t just magically align with democratic values or well-being, … 1/2

Lego Science is research driven by modular convenience. When researchers combine methods or concepts, more out of convenience than any deep curiosity in the resulting research question, to create publishable units. "What role does {my favourite construct} play in {task}?"

If you’re interested in a new way to describe and analyse digital behaviour, come to my talk to hear about a function-based, behavioural framework at 2pm today! #cyber25

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io. Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant. THREAD BELOW 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

tl;dr - social media isn’t about “dopamine hits” but is about behaviourism

I am often told that public critique of published articles must also solve the issues found. I think this frequently enforced requirement hinders scientific self-correction. Blog post: mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

📣 New preprint out! In "It’s her! Investigating relationship development with social AI chatbots", we explore how people form emotional bonds with chatbots. 📄 Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... ✍️ with @tobiasdienlin.com