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

Anyone around #metascience2025 who wants to talk post-publication peer review (error.reviews), preregistration-paper comparison (regcheck.app), or research quality management, please drop me a line!

🚨New preprint 🚨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨-𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 Using a novel micro-narrative method, we collected ~ 900 first-person accounts of social media harms from young people across the UK and US.

Another great post showing the flexibility and usefulness of the new Papercheck tool. Interestingly, RegCheck handles the issue Daniel flags below correctly (i.e., it does not make claims about the non-preregistered cohort B; only cohort A):

Here’s a screenshot of the “addictive use” trajectories from the JAMA paper cited below. My educated guess from the details of the measure is that none of these lines comes close to bona fide “addictive” use 🧵

As someone who spends much of her day thinking about how we can and should measure online behaviours, this article really struck a nerve with me and I’d like to comment on a few important issues it raises (1/x)

Extremely niche shitpost

Daniel Kardefelt-Winther presenting new analyses that covers nearly 39,000 children from 39 countries www.youtube.com/live/XKo6oUY... Spoiler alert: Screen time alone was weakly and inconsistently associated with mental health indicators

🎙️Screen Sense - new podcast with me and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social, is launching next week! Two psychologists (and dads) talking honestly about what it means to raise a family in a screen-filled world - with science, real stories and zero guilt. Launching 13th June. screensensepodcast.substack.com

🗣️ Dr Madeleine Steeds, assist prof in @ucdischool.bsky.social, is giving a keynote speech at the Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk, titled: "Queer Joy as a Digital Good: Centring Joy in Research" 🗓️9th of June, 1:00pm-2:00pm 📍Event is hybrid 🔜Register: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

New Paper! 📱Are Social media mental health policies and wellbeing tools meaningful interventions or superficial solutions? 🤔 #socialmedia #techforgood #trustandsafety

I was interviewed for this article on Mr. Porter about escapism and video games: www.mrporter.com/en-us/journa...

@shuhbillskee.bsky.social, Niklas Johannes & I finally submitted our critique of a "new paradigm" in social media effects research for peer-review at Meta-Psychology. If you're interested in reviewing, please submit a review to [email protected] or e.g. prereview.org, or reply here.

I saw a paper on my feed a couple of weeks back along the lines of "Lessons from the software industry for reproducible science" but failed to save it... Can anyone help me find it?

My abstract got accepted! I’ll be giving an oral presentation titled “Technologically Facilitated Behavioural Analysis: A Behaviourist Framework for Emerging Technologies” It might take me the full 25 minutes to read the title, but I’m looking forward to presenting it

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

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

New Paper! I'm truly excited to share @natematias.bsky.social and my new Policy Forum in Science published yesterday. We evaluate science's ability to address technological harms, and offer recommendations for what could be done to improve on the status quo: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

B.F Skinner from the paper, “How to discover what you have to say” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

⚡SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCHERS: I'm putting together a resource pack for parents who want a more nuanced, reassuring understanding of social media/phones + adolescents So.. what are your go-to articles/podcasts/videos etc that you share w parents for this? (cont)

Picked up a copy of Careless People, a memoir written by a former Facebook employee. The cover description claims “as all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, Careless People will change how you see the world today.”

Call for applications! 📣 #CfA #Fulbright Visiting Professor 2026/27 at the Faculty of #SocialSciences for a 4-month teaching & research stay aiming at #UScitizens. 📅 Deadline: 15.09.2025 More information here: ⤵️

🌍 Join the Heat & Cognition ManyLabs project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #ManyLabs #EnvironmentalPsychology

Abstaining from social media does not significantly affect positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction, finds @lauralemahieu.bsky.social et al., in a meta analysis doi.org/10.1038/s415...