Joe Bayer
@joebayer.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Ohio State | tracking and thinking about how our tech habits are changing -- and (maybe) changing our minds
habits | social connection | social apps | mobile methods | JosephBayer.com
habits | social connection | social apps | mobile methods | JosephBayer.com
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STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
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Excited to present some new research I’ve been working on at #NCA2025 tomorrow! We are in the early Comm and Social Cognition session starting at 8:15AM!
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Excited to present some new research I’ve been working on at #NCA2025 tomorrow! We are in the early Comm and Social Cognition session starting at 8:15AM!
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Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
The four conceptualizations of social connection
Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
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I'll be presenting work with @joebayer.bsky.social on affordances of constant connectivity 📶 in the top paper panel for mobile comm at 3pm Sunday in Centennial H (Regency 3)
June 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'll be presenting work with @joebayer.bsky.social on affordances of constant connectivity 📶 in the top paper panel for mobile comm at 3pm Sunday in Centennial H (Regency 3)
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Come to @uvapsychology.bsky.social and work with the AMAZING new hire we snagged, @ericmshuman.bsky.social!
I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on 2 projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets. If anyone knows of someone with computational skills (network analysis, NLP, etc.) who is looking for a postdoc- have them reach out to me.
April 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Come to @uvapsychology.bsky.social and work with the AMAZING new hire we snagged, @ericmshuman.bsky.social!
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I’ve seen a few of these anecdotes now. I know you can disable copy+paste in Qualtrics via JavaScript, but if Qualtrics can hear me, a “disable copy+paste” survey options button within the Qual survey design platform would be cool beans
Quick update: I notified CR about these participant issues and they're looking into it. They were very helpful and quick to respond.
I strongly encourage researchers to include some open-ended "bot check" Qs and review your data for obvious LLM use before compensating participants (see below).
I strongly encourage researchers to include some open-ended "bot check" Qs and review your data for obvious LLM use before compensating participants (see below).
Collected data today using CloudResearch Connect. Usually they're good but I wasn't able to use my "botcha" pre-screens this time b/c apparently that's now TOS violation. 🙄 So, I included an open-ended Q to identify responses from LLMs & search bots.
Look out for "Certainly!" It's a LLM red flag.
Look out for "Certainly!" It's a LLM red flag.
March 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve seen a few of these anecdotes now. I know you can disable copy+paste in Qualtrics via JavaScript, but if Qualtrics can hear me, a “disable copy+paste” survey options button within the Qual survey design platform would be cool beans
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Looks like the program for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social is out (saa2025.com/Program) - how is anyone supposed to decide which sessions to choose - too many great papers! 🤩
SAA 2025
Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2025
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April 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Looks like the program for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social is out (saa2025.com/Program) - how is anyone supposed to decide which sessions to choose - too many great papers! 🤩
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use?
We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.
Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
🧵 👇
We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.
Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
🧵 👇
February 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use?
We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.
Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
🧵 👇
We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.
Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
🧵 👇
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Cold morning? 🥶 🌅
Time to jump on the socials apparently!
New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️
“extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Time to jump on the socials apparently!
New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️
“extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity - Kelton Minor, Esteban Moro, Nick Obradovich, 2025
Humanity spends an increasing proportion of its time interacting online, yet—given the importance of social media to human welfare—the external factors that reg...
journals.sagepub.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Cold morning? 🥶 🌅
Time to jump on the socials apparently!
New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️
“extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Time to jump on the socials apparently!
New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️
“extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Following Ohio’s SB1 (the anti-diversity & inclusion, anti-tenure, anti-strike legislation for higher ed)? the Harding (overflow) room at the Statehouse is already almost full! Live testimonies also at ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-se...
Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...
Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Following Ohio’s SB1 (the anti-diversity & inclusion, anti-tenure, anti-strike legislation for higher ed)? the Harding (overflow) room at the Statehouse is already almost full! Live testimonies also at ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-se...
Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...
Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...
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WHAT WE VALUE: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change has been featured on The Next Big Idea Club’s April 2025 Must-Read Books!
Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu...
View the list of featured books here:
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
#neuroscience #communication #psychology #science
Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu...
View the list of featured books here:
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
#neuroscience #communication #psychology #science
February 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
WHAT WE VALUE: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change has been featured on The Next Big Idea Club’s April 2025 Must-Read Books!
Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu...
View the list of featured books here:
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
#neuroscience #communication #psychology #science
Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu...
View the list of featured books here:
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...
#neuroscience #communication #psychology #science
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What a ride yesterday's #ica25 notifications have been 📈📉 Sadly we won't present our data linkage study on semantic affinity of Netflix content with daily stressors in Denver - so check out our preprint for a test of #moodmanagement theory with computational methods 😊☹️💻
January 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What a ride yesterday's #ica25 notifications have been 📈📉 Sadly we won't present our data linkage study on semantic affinity of Netflix content with daily stressors in Denver - so check out our preprint for a test of #moodmanagement theory with computational methods 😊☹️💻
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☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to an #ICAMobile senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form by January 21st + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback on your project: forms.gle/YTA5qEXKhLen...
Senior Scholar Support: Interest Form
Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to a senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form and we will match you with a seni...
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January 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to an #ICAMobile senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form by January 21st + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback on your project: forms.gle/YTA5qEXKhLen...
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🧪 My collaborators don't use social media, so I’m excited to share the 🧵on a just-published paper from a then-undergraduate (Stefan Blancha), myself, and Professor Raymond Mar. This is a refined version of Stefan’s undergrad thesis study on #doomscrolling behavior...
December 7, 2024 at 12:52 AM
🧪 My collaborators don't use social media, so I’m excited to share the 🧵on a just-published paper from a then-undergraduate (Stefan Blancha), myself, and Professor Raymond Mar. This is a refined version of Stefan’s undergrad thesis study on #doomscrolling behavior...
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People have most meaningful connection on messaging apps (eg Facetime) and they report less loneliness.
People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok
To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...
People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok
To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...
February 6, 2024 at 4:34 PM
People have most meaningful connection on messaging apps (eg Facetime) and they report less loneliness.
People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok
To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...
People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok
To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...
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Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!
We are excited to announce that we are collaborating with
Nature Human Behaviour!! We will mass reproduce/replicate their papers from 2023 onwards. We need your help conducting computational reproducibility + sensitivity analysis OR replication with new data.
Correspondence here: rdcu.be/dwUGX
Nature Human Behaviour!! We will mass reproduce/replicate their papers from 2023 onwards. We need your help conducting computational reproducibility + sensitivity analysis OR replication with new data.
Correspondence here: rdcu.be/dwUGX
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January 27, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!
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"Do we need proper oversight and regulation of social media? You bet...But I can only conclude that despite the heated bipartisan rhetoric of blame, scapegoating social media is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation."
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/o...
Opinion | Avert Your Eyes, Avoid Responsibility and Just Blame TikTok
Blaming social media for all kinds of social ills is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2023 at 11:19 AM
"Do we need proper oversight and regulation of social media? You bet...But I can only conclude that despite the heated bipartisan rhetoric of blame, scapegoating social media is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation."
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/o...