Fantastic and blistering comment about the need for transparency in industry-academic collaborations. From @georgiaturner.bsky.social, Ian Anderson, and Luisa Fassi www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In this CAMH journal #OpenAccess Debate paper, Katrina E. Champion et al. examine Australia's landmark decision to ban social media access for children under the age of 16, set to take effect in Dec 2025, & discuss empowering parents and schools. https://bit.ly/4pRVW51

Very excited to share this piece, co-authored with stellar @georgiaturner.bsky.social and @aanixel.bsky.social, and long in the making. We hope this work encourages deeper discussion of the need to consider transparency and rigour in collaborations between social media companies and academics.

Many congratulations @fassiluisa.bsky.social - it has been so great to watch you fly

🥂 Congratulations @fassiluisa.bsky.social for passing her viva! Luisa has been a hugely respected and influential team member. Her dedication to rigorous and careful research has been evident throughout the four years I have had the privilege of supervising her with @tamsinford.bsky.social.

Looking forward to @fassiluisa.bsky.social‘s talk at our department next week :)

Very exciting to present our latest findings on social media use and youth mental health at @ecnp.eu in Amsterdam!

📚 An insightful Educational Update Session at #ECNP2025 on how digital media shapes youth mental health. 🌐🧠 #psychiatry #neuroscience @fassiluisa.bsky.social @giselasugranyes.bsky.social

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

I am honoured to have been selected as Researcher of the Month by Tooled Up Education! ⬇️ You can find the podcast interview where I discuss my latest research here: open.spotify.com/episode/7God... And the article with a summary here: www.tooledupeducation.com/research/do-...

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an 8-year Wellcome Career Development Award to investigate how loneliness affects young people's brains and minds!! Grateful for the support and excited for the road ahead! @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

Very excited for this preprint to be out, led by the stellar @tommetherell.com ⬇️ Leveraging data linkage of secondary care records, we examine the longitudinal relationship between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses.

Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE

Very excited and grateful to receive the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my PhD thesis! A special thanks to the Institute, the organisers and my wonderful PhD supervisors @orbenamy.bsky.social & @tamsinford.bsky.social. More info: psychoftech.substack.com/p/congratula...

Ecological momentary assessment data are everywhere these days. In psychology, dynamic structural equation models (DSEMs) are particularly attractive for analyzing such data. In this paper Ethan McCormick and I show how you can easily incorporate nonlinear trends and cycles using splines.

New Perspective out in @nathumbehav.nature.com today with co-author @orbenamy.bsky.social! We propose a new framework for designing 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support well-being, grounded in self-determination theory 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What's the relationship between social media use and mental health problems in adolescents? A Registered Report by @fassiluisa.bsky.social et al examined this question using a nationally representative UK sample. #socialmedia #mentalhealth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📊 New research led by Luisa Fassi (@fassiluisa.bsky.social) and involving Prof Andy Przybylski (@shuhbillskee.bsky.social) of the OII reveals that adolescents with mental health conditions engage with social media differently than their peers.

Important new study about social media use in vulnerable young people:

Great new study that will contribute usefully to the social media and mental health question. It uses more detailed assessment of both social media use and mental health, which has been a bit issue with previous research. This study shows that... (cont)

I am so excited that this is now out. An absolutely **mammoth** amount of work, please give this thread a read ⬇️💪💪

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

My team has got news! Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️ www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️

Ancora @fassiluisa.bsky.social e gruppo Orben con una revisione accurata e ragionata che smonta le semplicistiche associazioni tra social media e malessere giovanile. Correlazioni spurie per teoria raffazzonata da esperti che male informa le politiche pubbliche. Ne scrivono su The Mental Elf: