Andrew K Przybylski

Andrew Przybylski

@shuhbillskee.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, and Oxford Professor

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 18h

Content policies are usually private, one-off efforts. You build yours, I build mine, we don't share much about what works or why. This makes sense given products can (and should) set different policies based on their communities, but it leaves us reinventing the wheel. 🧵 1/5

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 7d

My first paper, out in PsychReview!!

Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro:

Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health?

A 🧵

Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski, David A. Ellis, Nate Breznau

Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 7d

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.

scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

Check Research Outputs for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

scienceverse.github.io

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Andrew K Przybylski

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11d

Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!

Home | AsCollected

ascollected.org

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson , and 1 more Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Jill A. Jacobson

Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 14d

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

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Andrew K Przybylski

Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 20d

Super excited to see my work on the dangers of “careless speech”, subtle hallucinations & GenAI for science, academia & education or any areas where truth & detail matter w/ @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social ft @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Mitch Leslie
tinyurl.com/4ms2mkub

Scientists Increasingly Using AI to Help Write Papers—for Better or Worse

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 20d

Techdirt Podcast Episode 435: An Insider’s View Of Decentralized Social Media

Support us on Patreon » As you know, we talk a lot about decentralization and protocols over platforms. When it comes to decentralized social media in particular, one person who has been working on it since the earliest…

Techdirt Podcast Episode 435: An Insider’s View Of Decentralized Social Media

Support us on Patreon » As you know, we talk a lot about decentralization and protocols over platforms. When it comes to decentralized social media in particular, one person who has been working on it since the earliest days is developer Rabble, who was around at the very beginning of what would become Twitter and has worked on many decentralized social media efforts, and recently proposed a new…

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 22d

iirc, that around when the non-diegetic screaming started

a drawing of a man with a blue eye and the website chaptertwo-thepacnw.tumblr.com in the corner

ALT: a drawing of a man with a blue eye and the website chaptertwo-thepacnw.tumblr.com in the corner

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 22d

media effects research (2017-present)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 22d

New hobby:

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

Reposted by Jacob Montgomery, Andrew K Przybylski, Florian Keusch

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 22d

New hobby:

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

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 22d

How is a sex offender treatment programme experienced? Deploying mixed methods evaluation through reflective diaries: https://osf.io/jx9en

Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski, Amy Orben, Matti Vuorre

Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 25d

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?

🧵

We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 28d

Preprints have been on a wild ride this half decade. Nice to read something intellectually coherent and practically minded.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 28d

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.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 28d

You can’t upload, comment or message people, but otherwise you can do a lot!

I actually wrote about how you can still watch TikTok and YouTube Shorts almost a year ago! www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/26/t...

Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Paolo Crosetto , and 1 more Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Paolo Crosetto, Juanjo Medina

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 28d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Oct 11

This is AI.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · Oct 11

Behold an extremely timely Techdirt post...

(just went up)

www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i...

Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski , and 8 more Jürgen Maier, Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski, Robert Huber, Ian Hussey, Patrick S. Forscher, Kevin McManus, Dennis Wesselbaum, John Hilton, Sebastian Stier, Matti Vuorre

Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Oct 10

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.

Reposted by Richard Fletcher, Andrew K Przybylski

Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · Oct 9

No time to read the long version of our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research on use & views around GenAI, information, and news in 6 countries? Then read the summary, just out with @niemanlab.org.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

Reposted by Mel Bartley, Jörg Peters, Philip N. Cohen , and 5 more Mel Bartley, Jörg Peters, Philip N. Cohen, Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Ingo Rohlfing, Matt N Williams, Juan Fernández

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Oct 4

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...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

open.lnu.se

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Norbert Schwarz, Andrew K Przybylski , and 1 more Joanna Bryson, Norbert Schwarz, Andrew K Przybylski, David A. Ellis

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Oct 1

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? - Behavior Research Methods

A growing number of self-report measures aim to define interactions with social media in a pathological behavior framework, often using terminology focused on identifying those who are ‘addicted’ to engaging with others online. Specifically, measures of ‘social media addiction’ focus on motivations for online social information seeking, which could relate to motivations for offline social information seeking. However, it could be the case that these same measures could reveal a pattern of friend addiction in general. This study develops the Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ) by re-wording items from highly cited pathological social media use scales to reflect “spending time with friends”. Our methodology for validation follows the current literature precedent in the development of social media ‘addiction’ scales. The O-FAQ had a three-factor solution in an exploratory sample of N = 807 and these factors were stable in a 4-week retest (r = .72 to .86) and was validated against personality traits, and risk-taking behavior, in conceptually plausible directions. Using the same polythetic classification techniques as pathological social media use studies, we were able to classify 69% of our sample as addicted to spending time with their friends. The discussion of our satirical research is a critical reflection on the role of measurement and human sociality in social media research. We question the extent to which connecting with others can be considered an ‘addiction’ and discuss issues concerning the validation of new ‘addiction’ measures without relevant medical constructs. Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures.

link.springer.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 26

🧪Science has saved many lives!

Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer: Estimated 2.3 billion lives saved
Blood groups/storage leading to blood transfusions: 1.1 billion
High yield wheat: 245 million
Penicillin: 203M
Insulin: 200M
Chlorinated water: 177M
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Chart listing scientists whose work saved many people’s lives. The estimates are taken from the web publication Science Heroes.

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Sep 26

While I agree with many points, I believe it overemphasizes deductive research. Inductive research, description, measurement of effects, is all crucial to have a basis upon which to build explanations of effects. I believe induction is strongly underappreciated in current Comm.

Reposted by Jörg Peters, Andrew K Przybylski, Juan Rocha

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Sep 24

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m...

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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SAM Retro @retroman.bsky.social · Sep 18

BattleTech (1994)
#MegaDrive
#Genesis

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Working through this excellent podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and @peteetchells.bsky.social. What a brilliant resource that's plotting a fresh way forward. If you have parents who follow you, do share! screensensepodcast.substack.com

Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World | Pete Etchells | Substack

A podcast for parents trying to make thoughtful, informed decisions about tech and childhood. Click to read Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscrib...

screensensepodcast.substack.com

Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is such a great initiative that scaffolds the *GULF* between families who want to play and quality gaming experiences.

Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room:
🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games
♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn
🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com
🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions
✏️ So many Guestbook comments

www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...

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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · Sep 12

if you thought captchas couldn’t possibly become worse, i have upsetting news for you

a captcha with that says “drag the pipe to fix fhe water pipes from the tank to the faucet”

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is BACK! New episode: The Haidt of Hypocrisy: podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

This week, we talk a lot about experts, complexity, and nuance. And how the political and media classes... seem to want to ignore all three in favor of clear, simple, & wrong.

The Haidt of Hypocrisy - Ctrl-Alt-Speech

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Jordan escalates global tech argument, with Farage's help (Politico) Fa...

podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com

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