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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· 11d
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Β· 12d
I'm entirely open to smart inquiries into how smartphones and social media affect the social fabric, but I'm just not open to pretending we suddenly forgot everything else we know about the world. Like come on

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social Β· 7d
Together with Don Robinaugh & a large team of interdisciplinary researchers, we just published a preprint on this topic: the importance of collaborations across disciplines to move forward mental health science. I hope you'll find it interesting, took a few years!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Β· 10d
Wow -- I missed that even UNICEF expressed concern about the Australian social media ban. UNICEF!! They said, correctly, "for many children, particularly those who are isolated or marginalised, social media is a lifeline[.]"

H/t @mmasnick.bsky.social on CTRL-ALT-SPEECH podcast.

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Metro β€œFestive” North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social Β· 11d
Elsewhere, the Wall Street Journal reports: "There's a really bright line between investing and gambling," [Charles Schwab Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rick] Wurster said in an extensive interview with The Wall Street Journal. "I really worry about the message that's being sent to young investors that you've got to get these quick hits." Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has emerged as one of the most persuasive messengers to young investors. At his company's annual summit for active traders earlier this year, Tenev compared playing the markets to circling a racetrack, where the "machine can make all the difference." Trading, he said, was "high stakes," and "one of the most intense lifestyles out there." And to make his point, Tenev wore a race-car driver's jumpsuit emblazoned with Robinhood's logo.

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Techdirt @techdirt.com Β· 11d
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t WantΒ Banned

We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole…
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t WantΒ Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole thing even more grotesque: turns out the campaign pushing hardest for the ban was run by an ad agency that makes gambling ads.
www.techdirt.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Β· 12d
I'm entirely open to smart inquiries into how smartphones and social media affect the social fabric, but I'm just not open to pretending we suddenly forgot everything else we know about the world. Like come on

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Β· 12d
The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

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simine vazire @simine.com Β· 13d
Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride!
You’re the best! πŸŽ‰πŸ₯‚πŸŒŸ
Simine and Beth in graduation regalia outside Selfie of Beth and Simine holding glasses of sparkling wine in graduation regalia.

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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· 14d
Shut up and give me some free Apple stuff 😜

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io Β· 14d
Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· 15d
Looking good!

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Internet Archive @archive.org Β· 16d
πŸ’₯ Why did the word ENSHITTIFICATION catch on?

#CoryDoctorow thinks people like a little cussing β€” & the word captures how tech platforms make the web frustrating & hostile.

Want more? 🎧 Listen to the full episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Β· 16d
NEW: A report from Oxford's @bonavero.bsky.social identifies, examines, and addresses the counter-arguments for ten key reasons for the UK to remain in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Find out more ⬇️
#HumanRightsDay
The analysed benefits of staying in the ECHR are: - Safeguarding basic rights in workplaces, courtrooms, hospitals, care homes and newsrooms. - Protecting people at risk, including children, people in care, and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery. - Defending privacy in an age of mass surveillance and data harvesting (e.g. DNA retention limits and bulk interception safeguards). - Enabling accountability after major failures such as the Hillsborough disaster. - Protecting free speech and democracy, and respecting parliamentary sovereignty. - Providing increased protection compared with common law protections, including by providing an external source of accountability through the European Court of Human Rights - Providing rights protections that stand the test of time, adapting to new circumstances and new threats. - Supporting peace and stability in Northern Ireland. - Enabling cooperation on border control, security, data sharing and tackling cross-border crime.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Β· 16d
Two-thirds of quantitative articles in the latest volume of American Sociological Review provide at least their code and a link to the data, which is progress over past years but still very bad.
Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social scienceΒ standards
In the most recent volume, two-thirds of papers based on quantitative analysis provided replication packages.
familyinequality.wordpress.com

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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social Β· 16d
Join us for a PhD in affective neuroscience at the Donders Institute (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy - PhD candidate in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
Are you passionate about making societal impact through scientific innovation? We invite applications for a PhD project in the field of cognitive ...
www.radboudumc.nl

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social Β· 17d
You absolutely couldn’t write it better. Amazing.
Text showing that visits to pornhub are down 1.5 per month. Text showing that 1.4 million people now use VPNs

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Riana @riana.bsky.social Β· 17d
I'm suspicious of British journalism on child safety topics, but it's the Guardian so this is actually very good. I'm happy to see the emphasis on proactive prevention & education, a mention of restorative justice, and explicitly saying Ofcom alone can't fix this. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social Β· 18d
Looks like Australia's social media ban came into effect. Age verification appears based on 1) facial scan age estimation or 2) ID scan. This in turn appears to be done by third party companies, so opens doors to privacy issues / leaks.

Also, what exactly was the evidence base for this ban again?

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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· 18d
It's great this research is continuing at scale even though the tidal wave of pandemic-adjacent scientific activity has long since passed.

If you know of anything like this still being pursued in the social or psychological sciences please share!

I want to believe it was more than a fad...
carlzimmer.com Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com Β· 20d
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com Β· 20d
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social Β· 21d
We announced/released this at @wired.com's Big Interview event yesterday with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @stevenlevy.bsky.social interviewing myself and @komorama.bsky.social on stage. I love Steven's framing that "it's time to save Silicon Valley from itself." www.wired.com/story/big-in...
It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
www.wired.com

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com Β· 23d
Projects like this & applying integrative analysis methods are very exciting. I bet there's more to do with all the data we collect & curation and good use of metadata is currently underappreciated
williamngiam.github.io William Ngiam | δΈ₯η₯₯ε…¨ @williamngiam.github.io Β· 25d
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io Β· 24d
Works the other way around too.

β€œIf I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social Β· 25d
The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Β· 25d
Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan!

There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

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Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social Β· 27d
10 years since CRediT was introduced, >20% adoption (of full text in Dimensions). Now, we need to build on this to comprehensively integrate CRediT in metadata and make sure the taxonomy evolves to remain fit for purpose. doi.org/10.1038/d415...
W/ @sjcporter.bsky.social Liz Allen Ruth Whitman
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work β€” and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
doi.org

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Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social Β· 28d
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... 🧡
This plot shows the number of users in the Study 1 sample that self-described as 'addicted' to Instagram versus those who were 'at risk' of clinical addiction. The ratios for the addiction symptom scale are 9:371 and for the perceived addiction 69: 311, suggesting a much greater proportion of users self-perceive as addicted than are actually addicted to Instagram

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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· 29d
What a valuable read for parents and young people all around the world. The Digital Abstinence Movement will come knocking. Best to start thinking how to preserve your data and social ties before they're taken away.

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Andrew Przybylski πŸ›«πŸŒŽπŸŽŠ @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Β· Nov 27
More seriously, looks like young people in Australia know how to read bona fide scientific research and are keen to exercise their internationally recognised human rights... Instead of silly abstinence, let's use science to make the internet an empowering place!

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social Β· Nov 27
Waited to get the court docs before reporting on the high court challenge to the social media ban.

They reveal an injunction will be sought against esafety, the minister and the govt to stop enforcement. And one of the teens is turning 16 before the ban.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Teens seek urgent high court injunction to block Australian government’s social media ban
Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, both 15, are supported by a digital rights group led by NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick
www.theguardian.com