Tobias Dienlin

Title: "Ban, Improve, or Ignore? Social Media Regulation From a Communication Research Perspective". Last week I gave my inaugural lecture at University of Zurich, @ikmz.bsky.social. Now online on YouTube.

It’s never been easier to make your own personal website in R. Here’s my guide, which includes instructions on importing your publication list from Zotero dsquintana.com/posts/quarto... As a bonus I made a website builder app that does mostly automates this dsquintana.shinyapps.io/website-buil...

In case you're interested in doing the Open Access Open Scholarship Committee for the next term: You can indicate your interested to doing so here: www.icahdq.org/page/ICA-com... @icahdq.bsky.social #openscience

Very cool! definitely looks way better than our google spreadsheet :)

Communication, are you listening.

New preprint! Universities increasingly expect academics to practise open science. But is it rewarded when hiring? We analysed 1,356 academic job ads from Norwegian institutions and found that <5% of ads mentioned open science as a required or desired qualification osf.io/preprints/ps...

📝 New article on Our World in Data: When do people experience mental health conditions for the first time? Mental health conditions can begin at almost any age. For many people, they develop in the early stages of life.

Members from the @crs-uzh.bsky.social have written primers on #OpenScience Practices for Qualitative Research: Preregistering Qualitative Studies: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Transparency during the Study Phase: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Transparent Reporting and Data Sharing: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Eine Kamera im Klassenzimmer verändert das Verhalten aller, auch ohne nachgewiesene Aufnahme. Smartbrillen gefährden Privatsphäre und schaffen permanenten Überwachungsdruck. Wir fordern deshalb mit @aufstehn.at ein Verbot in Schulen und geschützten Räumen. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY. IF WE ALL VOTE. 🗳️ #AccountabilityIsComing11/3/26

Our reflections on the recent "AI and Research Integrity" meeting in Montreal: We are somewhat worried that many AI trustworthiness assessment tools are not trustworthy. @lhdjung.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/trustw...

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Screen time as a concept does not make sense they say … (Advert says: „no screen.“ advertiser: company producing toys/puzzles)

New Announcement: R2 is turning one year old. Across authors, reviewers, editors, assistants, and advisors, we have had over 100 people contributing to R2. Thank you to all for making the first year a success! Full announcement: www.replicationresearch.org/announcement...

Send your best work to PCI Psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) where it will receive high quality & open peer review free of commercial interference. We review a variety of article types from a wide range of psychological topics (psych.peercommunityin.org/help/help_ge...).

BMW mit mehr Rückgrat als die CDU...

📣 New Directions of Social Media Research is sold out! Registration is now closed. 🎉 Congratulations to our poster and symposium presenters! 📅 Programme, schedule and presenter guidance coming soon. Visit our website for updates: lnkd.in/ej2m_QGv

Nobelpreisträger Hegemann zur aktuellen Forschungsförderung in Europa. www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...

Submit your AI + methods related work. All perspectives welcome, critical, constructive, destructive, whatever you have.

Good talk. There's a lot of (over)thinking of this at the moment. Zenodo just works. (Until it doesn't when we and our bots ruin that as well.) Collaborate on GitHub and refer to zenodo.

📣 Weekly Spotlight 💡 Join us on Tuesday, October 6, for a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Natali Helberger on “Generative AI and Democratization.”

#methoden26 is coming to @gesis.org. I am super excited and looking forward to the best conference of the year and the Klassentreffen. Check out the program here: www.gesis.org/forschung/pr...

"authors could not answer...even basic questions about the paper...difficult to see how they could have verified the paper’s contents" medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

📣 #OpenCall: NRP 85 "Mental Health of Adolescents" NRP 85 aims to improve mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches for adolescents in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline : 24 November 2026 (expressions of interest) ➡️Read more: sohub.io/uvkv

A hammer does not guarantee successful nailing, successful nailing does not require a hammer, & the [generalizability] of the claim is in principle separate from which tool was used. The same is true of methods in the social and behavioral sciences. Shadish (1995, p. 421) Banger start to the paper!

Yesterday, the EU presented plans for stricter age-based rules for social media use. Includes - a ban for under-13s - “mini accounts” for 13–15-year-olds under parental supervision with time limits - A separate Digital Fairness Act targeting addictive design features. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

On the 1st of October I will give a talk on sample size justification for the PCI webinar series. I'll discuss the importance of considering a smallest effect size of interest when planning a study, and how to use sequential designs when there is uncertainty. peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

It’s not even close.

This came up often enough that I dedicated an overly long footnote to it (www.the100.ci/2024/04/13/i...)

Ever wondered what (test!) chatlog data donations from ChatGPT and Character.AI look like – and how to set up extraction in UZH's Data Donation Module? datadonation.uzh.ch Little blog post (part 1) here: nadjarupprechter.com/nadja-ddm-bl... #commsky #datadonation #ai

Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.

RELEVANT: On Sept. 16 Ursula von der Leyen will present the EU strategy toward social media regulation.

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

That leadership has evolved: leaders were once expected to be extroverted and charismatic, but today there is growing space for more introverted personalities and different leadership styles. The key is to find your own way of leading ad remaining true to yourself is the most important aspect.

Tomorrow morning at 8am, we will hold the symposiom: #MediaPsychology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence! Özen Odag will chair this early session featuring experts in Media psychology's research on #AI in 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑 0 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒖𝒙𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈.

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

🚨 New preprint: In this paper we make the case for measuring social media use at the level of naturally occurring sessions (i.e., beginning when the app/site is opened and ending when it is closed). Across 7 days and 161 participants this gave us nearly 4,000 paired sessions of use 🧵

This level of transparency is remarkable. Great!

This is so cool! Kudos to an already great journal becoming even greater 💙 #openscience

✅ ethics approval for human subjects research ✅ open data and materials required for quantitative research (exemptions apply) ✅ preregistrations for experiments ✅ CFA for reflective factors

New discussion paper led by @hroggenkamp.bsky.social and @mvreiss.bsky.social published in Nature Human Behavior: "Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The existence of the desk-reject implies the existence of a desk-accept. Let’s do this !!!

Every successful research project is driven by dedicated folks asking important questions. In our Behind the Research series we introduce the researchers helping shape PROMISE. www.linkedin.com/posts/every-...

Every successful research project is driven by dedicated folks asking important questions. In our Behind the Research series we introduce the researchers helping shape PROMISE. Meet @georgiaturner.bsky.social. www.linkedin.com/posts/every-...