Hit 100 citations on Google Scholar today, yay! 🥳
Somewhere out there, a hundred people found my work useful… or at least cite-able. Thank you my friends 🫂

Life can now finally continue (only a communication scholar can understand).

Jokes aside - in the following order - keep hydrated, eat your veggies, and peer-review! 💧🥦📝

@icahdq.bsky.social

@tobiasdienlin.com spoke today at the @ikmz.bsky.social PostDoc Club about his journey to becoming a professor.
My take-home message? Balance is key: be strategic, but don’t overdo it: people notice. And just be yourself (but… not too much and not always 😄).

Good news straight from my IG feed:
"When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018." ⁠(sciencemagazine)
Original article: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What’s a media psychologist doing at a psychedelics conference? 💊🧘‍♀️
I was at ALPS to present a research agenda on psychedelic-assisted therapy and social media and it was FUN.
First things I did: meditated and listened to music coming from shrooms 🍄
Had plenty of insights (interdisciplinarity!!)

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉
Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔

Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being
osf.io/preprints/ps...

And here I am, for the first time in the @ikmz.bsky.social newsletter ✅
"Influencers & Digital Health" has just started and I already feel it’s a blessing ✨... not only for the students (I hope!) but also for me.

It’s amazing how smoothly the healthcomm theories can be explained through TikToks 🎥

…first retreat of IKMZ Division MediaPsych & Methods is a wrap! 🎉 (also my first academic retreat ever)

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present the final study of my doctoral dissertation at the @icahdq.bsky.social conference in Denver, Colorado. This experiment explores how emotional support provision can obscure the critical evaluation of mental health misinformation.