Stephen Schueller
@stephenschueller.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Informatics, University of California, Irvine.
Clinical psychologist, mental health services researcher, implementation scientist, Lakers fan and Swiftie.
Follow me for my views on digital mental health!
Clinical psychologist, mental health services researcher, implementation scientist, Lakers fan and Swiftie.
Follow me for my views on digital mental health!
Reposted by Stephen Schueller
Deadline approaching - applications due THIS Friday! 🚨
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Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250?
Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Deadline approaching - applications due THIS Friday! 🚨
Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250?
Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250?
Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Really cool paper!
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Really cool paper!
Thanks for sharing! I teach research methods for our graduate students and it's always great to see how other people are thinking about this. Really appreciate the insights
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thanks for sharing! I teach research methods for our graduate students and it's always great to see how other people are thinking about this. Really appreciate the insights
Reposted by Stephen Schueller
You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year!
Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year!
Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
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"WTF, this is so dangerous!" Social media influencers & youth mental health
Join our event and hear youth-led insights on what good and bad mental health communication looks like online.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)
The candidate will be
expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized
research program, provide effective instruction at the...
arizona.csod.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
You can see Tim's presentation here: osf.io/zvp8k/files/...
OSF
osf.io
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
You can see Tim's presentation here: osf.io/zvp8k/files/...
Emphasizing in the presentation that this is a pilot! With some limitations of being a pilot - only open to a few specific areas of research, researcher's must meet eligibility, 6-month maximum timeframe for data collection, and certain Instagram data can be requested
October 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Emphasizing in the presentation that this is a pilot! With some limitations of being a pilot - only open to a few specific areas of research, researcher's must meet eligibility, 6-month maximum timeframe for data collection, and certain Instagram data can be requested
Last presentation! Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science presenting on the Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-Being Research: www.cos.io/meta
Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research
This pilot program aims to share certain Instagram data with independent academic researchers to use in conjunction with their own study data on social or emotional health.
www.cos.io
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Last presentation! Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science presenting on the Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-Being Research: www.cos.io/meta
In her newly NIMH-funded work @xiaoransun.bsky.social is using the Princeton-SMART platform (formerly Screenlake): www.screenlake.com/princeton-sm...
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Princeton-Screenlake Mobile Analytics & Recording Tool
Open-source repo for social scientists and public health researchers to collect and analyze passive longitudinal screenshots from mobile panels for weeks or months.
www.screenlake.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In her newly NIMH-funded work @xiaoransun.bsky.social is using the Princeton-SMART platform (formerly Screenlake): www.screenlake.com/princeton-sm...
reporter.nih.gov/search/efG37...
reporter.nih.gov/search/efG37...
Getting the IRB for this study was hard - 11 months and 8 rounds of revisions raising issues such as the necessity of collecting such data, consent/assent procedures, potential of explicit images from children's smartphones, and safety protocols if content is concerning
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Getting the IRB for this study was hard - 11 months and 8 rounds of revisions raising issues such as the necessity of collecting such data, consent/assent procedures, potential of explicit images from children's smartphones, and safety protocols if content is concerning
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is the PI of the Adolescent and Family Screenomics Study, a study of 163 adolescents and 107 parents who contributed 6 months of screenomic data (screenshots every 5 seconds). It resulted in ~50 million screenshots with ~38 million screenshots coming from adolescents
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is the PI of the Adolescent and Family Screenomics Study, a study of 163 adolescents and 107 parents who contributed 6 months of screenomic data (screenshots every 5 seconds). It resulted in ~50 million screenshots with ~38 million screenshots coming from adolescents
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is a real expert in this space and has done work looking at comparisons between self-report and objectively collected data, demonstrating the benefits of considering data donation paradigms: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Agreement between self-reported and objectively measured smartphone use among adolescents and adults
Almost everything we think we know about the prevalence, correlates, risks, and benefits of smartphone use is based on individuals’ self-reported esti…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is a real expert in this space and has done work looking at comparisons between self-report and objectively collected data, demonstrating the benefits of considering data donation paradigms: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Next up! @xiaoransun.bsky.social talks to us about some of the nuts and bolts of data donation and ethics covering aspects like IRB, consent, privacy protections, and data storage
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Next up! @xiaoransun.bsky.social talks to us about some of the nuts and bolts of data donation and ethics covering aspects like IRB, consent, privacy protections, and data storage
Super interesting work by Merve Cerit on using LLMs to understand digital life of individuals through multi-dimensional data: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Media Content Atlas: A Pipeline to Explore and Investigate Multidimensional Media Space using Multimodal LLMs | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computin...
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October 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Super interesting work by Merve Cerit on using LLMs to understand digital life of individuals through multi-dimensional data: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
More info about the Screenomic project here: stanfordscreenomics.github.io
Stanford Screenomics
stanfordscreenomics.github.io
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
More info about the Screenomic project here: stanfordscreenomics.github.io
Nilam Ram talks about the human screenome project, collecting smartphone screenshots every 5 seconds. They've collected around 4 centuries of data at this point 😮
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nilam Ram talks about the human screenome project, collecting smartphone screenshots every 5 seconds. They've collected around 4 centuries of data at this point 😮
Nilam also gives a shout out to work by Doug Perry and Roland Path to provide a primer on using log data: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Extracting Meaningful Measures of Smartphone Usage from Android Event Log Data: A Methodological Primer | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
As smartphones become increasingly integral to daily life, their importance for understanding human behavior will only
continue to grow. Recognizing the potential of objective data on smartphone usage...
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October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Nilam also gives a shout out to work by Doug Perry and Roland Path to provide a primer on using log data: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Nilam Ram notes different ways to think about digital trace data - APIs, data donation, and tracking. Highlighted in this paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking
In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social m...
www.tandfonline.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Nilam Ram notes different ways to think about digital trace data - APIs, data donation, and tracking. Highlighted in this paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Next presentation Nilam Ram! Presenting on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing super-intensive longitudinal data
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Next presentation Nilam Ram! Presenting on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing super-intensive longitudinal data
One aspect of participant's needs are educating them about how this data might be used
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One aspect of participant's needs are educating them about how this data might be used
Love how @munmun10.bsky.social emphasizes that the CANDOR platform has different user types - study coordinators and participants
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Love how @munmun10.bsky.social emphasizes that the CANDOR platform has different user types - study coordinators and participants
They also have used a browser-based user agent to pull videos and other multimedia content from public social media spaces to link with user data
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
They also have used a browser-based user agent to pull videos and other multimedia content from public social media spaces to link with user data
Their team saves data as Parquet files which is a post-processed output format that can be easily read and scanned across participants. Can improve deserialization times and are modular and easy to share compared to a database
October 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Their team saves data as Parquet files which is a post-processed output format that can be easily read and scanned across participants. Can improve deserialization times and are modular and easy to share compared to a database
You can learn more about @munmun10.bsky.social 's CANDOR platform here: vorcha.cc.gatech.edu
Data Contribution Portal
vorcha.cc.gatech.edu
October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You can learn more about @munmun10.bsky.social 's CANDOR platform here: vorcha.cc.gatech.edu