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Tobias Dienlin
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Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Nov 20
Here's a starter pack of scholars in Communication pushing for Open Science 🤍

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Great opportunity! Professorship in Communications Sciences with a Concentration on Change and Innovation in Communication.

Start: August 2027
Where: @ikmz.bsky.social
Infos: 👇
UZH: Professorship in Communications Sciences with a Concentration on Change and Innovation in Communication
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in communication sciences with a concentration on change and innovation in communication starting on 1 August 2027. Candidates for thi...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Enjoyed this podcast by @stuartjritchie.bsky.social and @tomchivers.bsky.social on well-being.

Includes a report of a recent study showing that well-being, on average, decreases across the lifespan.

sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-88...
Episode 88: Wellbeing
Listen now | Cheer up - it might never happen
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November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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New to open science?

💡 Revisit our introductory webinar exploring what it means, why it matters, and how it can benefit researchers and the public alike.

📝 Watch on our YouTube 👇
Webinar Report: An introduction to open science
Watch back as our speakers introduce and discuss the importance of open science.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Just stumbled upon a super interesting preprint about chatbot usage and loneliness 👀
osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread below 👇 (1-6)
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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mepsy.bsky.social
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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schnizzl.bsky.social
Neue FWF-Studie (vorgestellt im Sept.) zu Postdocs bestätigt, was wir seit Jahren sagen:

- 82 % finden die Karriereperspektiven zu unsicher,
- 91 % fordern mehr unbefristete Stellen unterhalb der Professur.

Das Problem ist bekannt – wann wird es endlich gelöst? 🤷‍♀️

#IchBinHanna @nuwiss.bsky.social
Balkendiagramm aus der FWF-Studie 2025 zur Situation des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses. Zur Aussage „Die Karriereperspektiven sind zu unsicher“ (Wert 5) stimmen 64 % voll und ganz und 18 % eher zu (Wert 4). Balkendiagramm aus der FWF-Studie 2025 zu Reformvorschlägen im Wissenschaftssystem. 91 % befürworten den Ausbau unbefristeter Stellen unterhalb der Professur (davon 76 % voll und ganz + 15 % eher).
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Looking forward to @fassiluisa.bsky.social‘s talk at our department next week :)
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Mental Health: What do we actually know? Guest Talk Media Psychology & Methods Division Monday, 03 November 2025 14.00 – 15.00, AND-3-23 Luisa Fassi is a Graduate Student with the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge, UK Biography Luisa Fassi is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, working across the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry. Her doctoral research, which was recently recognised by the Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award, focuses on studying the relationship between social media use and adolescents' mental health. Abstract Mental health conditions affect one in seven adolescents globally, and social media has become a central part of young people’s daily lives. These parallel trends have sparked widespread concern, yet research linking social media use to youth mental health remains mixed and often lacks clinical relevance. In this lecture, I present findings from two complementary studies that aim to bridge this gap and inform both clinical and societal responses. The first is a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis that synthesizes 15 years of research on the relationship between social media use and internalising symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety) in both community and clinical samples. The second study is a registered report that analyses a nationally representative UK sample to examine differences in social media use among adolescents with and without mental health conditions. Unlike most studies that rely on single-questionnaire assessments, this study integrates clinical diagnoses made by professional raters based on multi-informant interviews. Together, these findings highlight the need for more targeted psychoeducation, clinical assessments, and interventions that reflect adolescents’ diverse lived experiences when it comes to social media use.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
Screenshot of https://powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com/
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
How about instead:
Inspirational poster that says Run every study as if it were the last one on the topic
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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mepsy.bsky.social
@dpossler.bsky.social is a Postdoc at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) at @hmtmh.bsky.social. His research focuses on the use and effects of (digital) media, e.g. how and why digital media offer meaningful entertainment experiences as well as methodological research.
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Das @foeg.bsky.social hat soeben das aktuelle Jahrbuch zur Qualität der Medien in der Schweiz vorgestellt.

Zentrale Ergebnisse:

- Anzahl der News-Depriviertem nimmt stetig zu
- News-Deprivierte mit weniger Wissen
- AI Tools beinhalten ≥ 5% Fake News
- Medienqualität stabil
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Come work with Matti!
matti.vuorre.com Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 18d
I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.

We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.

tiu.nu/22989
An aerial photograph of the Tilburg University campus.
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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wow
bsiepe.bsky.social Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 19d
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.

youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mepsy.bsky.social
@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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On the way to the University of Zurich to deliver a talk tomorrow at their seminar series in evolutionary medicine 🇨🇭

My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.

Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com

Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
A screenshot with the following Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners. (Version 0.6.1) Danielle Navarro (bookdown translation: Emily Kothe) 2019-01-11 Overview Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book. A screenshot with the following Welcome! Welcome to the online version of “Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide”. This book serves as an accessible introduction into how meta-analyses can be conducted in R. Essential steps for meta-analysis are covered, including pooling of outcome measures, forest plots, heterogeneity diagnostics, subgroup analyses, meta-regression, methods to control for publication bias, risk of bias assessments and plotting tools. Advanced, but highly relevant topics such as network meta-analysis, multi-/three-level meta-analyses, Bayesian meta-analysis approaches, and SEM meta-analysis are also covered. The programming and statistical background covered in the book are kept at a non-expert level. A print version of this book has been published with Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Results of the replication are in!

Chocolate is more desirable than poop:

Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]

N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.

w/
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ianhussey.mmmdata.io Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28d
Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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mepsy.bsky.social
Özen Odağ, Professor of Psychology at Touro University Berlin, studies how media can impact users’ identity, political agency, values, and beliefs, especially in vulnerable groups.
As Chair, she plans to embed topics like digital resilience, media literacy, and social responsibility in the division.
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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TIL
October 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Very happy to be part of this project and to collaborate with several great colleagues! Follow our social media accounts to stay updated :)
promiseproject.bsky.social PROMISE @promiseproject.bsky.social · Oct 10
On World Mental Health Day we’re launching PROMISE, a research project exploring youth well-being and social media policies.

We aim to understand how these policies affect young people online and develop data-driven recommendations to support their well-being.
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM