tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Amy Orben is a British experimental psychologist who is a group leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her research considers how digital technologies impact adolescent mental health. Orben was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize in 2021 and the inaugural Medical Research Council Impact Prize in 2023. .. more
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?
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Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski, Amy Orben, Matti Vuorre
Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?
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We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.
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Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?
It turns out, yes!
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Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.
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Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?
It turns out, yes!
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Join our upcoming networking event!
📅 October 2, 2025 (16:00 CEST) on Zoom
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/iH6sHt3dB4Wf...
Everyone is welcome!
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Want to join a collaborative team doing cutting-edge research and gain experience across a range of research skills? This is the job for you ✅
Know someone looking for an opportunity like this? Please let them know! 📣
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43918/ (closing: 30.11.2023)
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We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏
Here’s a thread to introduce the team!
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**A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media**
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We develop a computational reward learning model of real-world social media data, which infers the separate goal-directed and habitual cognitive processes driving posting...
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www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49974/
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I compare tech safety to green chemistry & link to an open version of @orbenamy.bsky.social & my article in @science.org
citizensandtech.org/2025/04/fixi...
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We propose a new framework for designing 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support well-being, grounded in self-determination theory 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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/...
📣 UK social media researchers! Join us at the event below to hear directly from Ofcom and UK government on current ideas, next steps, and to also share your own perspectives ⬇️
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/
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Reposted by George B. Ploubidis, Naomi Priest, Amy Orben
