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Andrew Przybylski
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 27d
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27d
I'm entirely open to smart inquiries into how smartphones and social media affect the social fabric, but I'm just not open to pretending we suddenly forgot everything else we know about the world. Like come on

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 12h
Winter in Oxford 🌨️

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 1d
It's a great episode! This had the same energy: foodmedcenter.org/2026-center-...
2026 Center for Food as Medicine & Longevity Airline Water Study
A 2026 Airline Water Study released today by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity reveals that the quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline, and many airlines…
foodmedcenter.org

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DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 3d
📣 New year, new job alerts 📣

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense 🇩🇰 is hiring a PhD and postdoc in an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” at an interdisciplinary and international workplace. 🌐

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 3d
On the latest episode of @soeptech.bsky.social, Ania Lichtarowicz interviews the OII's Kobi Hackenburg on how AI chatbots are able to successfully persuade users on political issues, and what this means for voting and democracy.

Listen to the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv7F...

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JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social · 4d
First MEP report.

Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values!

So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U.

Enjoy.

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GRIM-U: A GRIM-like observation to establish impossible p values from ranked tests - Medical Evidence Project
The Medical Evidence Project uses forensic metascientific methods to examine medical research publications that have a disproportionately high impact on human health. Our aim is to determine where pro...
https://medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-observation-establish-impossible-p-values-ranked-tests/"

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 4d
A hope for 2026 is that this perspective piece with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @deevybee.bsky.social will serve as a template for others who are similarly frustrated with with exaggerated claims and double speak around so much of research. It's ok to point out that the emperor has no clothes!
cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · Nov 13
The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.

Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
First page of Opinion piece: "Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism"

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 5d
LEGO is going to clean up on the new Smart Brick system, which people are already calling "screenless play."

Schools too I expect, since it won't require now-banned phones (unlike other electronic kits)

Will kids be allowed to program the blocks? I can't find out.

www.lego.com/en-us/smart-...
How we made the LEGO® SMART Play™ system
Discover the innovation behind the LEGO® SMART Play™ system and the SMART Brick, and learn more about how we developed this game-changing new play system
www.lego.com

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Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5d
Logging on
A truly cursed image of the Star Trek Voyager cast in their own clothes posing with a variety of 1990s tech items like printers, webcams and camcorders

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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social · 6d
For many years I've assigned @shuhbillskee.bsky.social 's nice BBC Ideas video on the myth of tech "addiction" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSNp... - and it has cute animations, students like it. But @taylorlorenz.bsky.social released this interview with @aanixel.bsky.social
youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...
Is technology addiction a myth? | BBC Ideas
YouTube video by BBC Ideas
www.youtube.com

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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 13d
I know at least one university that needs to hear this: Please don't evaluate faculty on whether or not they are presenting at professional conferences if you expect faculty to pay out of pocket to attend professional conferences.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14d
Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 23d
Together with Don Robinaugh & a large team of interdisciplinary researchers, we just published a preprint on this topic: the importance of collaborations across disciplines to move forward mental health science. I hope you'll find it interesting, took a few years!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 26d
Wow -- I missed that even UNICEF expressed concern about the Australian social media ban. UNICEF!! They said, correctly, "for many children, particularly those who are isolated or marginalised, social media is a lifeline[.]"

H/t @mmasnick.bsky.social on CTRL-ALT-SPEECH podcast.

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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 27d
Elsewhere, the Wall Street Journal reports: "There's a really bright line between investing and gambling," [Charles Schwab Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rick] Wurster said in an extensive interview with The Wall Street Journal. "I really worry about the message that's being sent to young investors that you've got to get these quick hits." Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has emerged as one of the most persuasive messengers to young investors. At his company's annual summit for active traders earlier this year, Tenev compared playing the markets to circling a racetrack, where the "machine can make all the difference." Trading, he said, was "high stakes," and "one of the most intense lifestyles out there." And to make his point, Tenev wore a race-car driver's jumpsuit emblazoned with Robinhood's logo.

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 27d
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole…
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole thing even more grotesque: turns out the campaign pushing hardest for the ban was run by an ad agency that makes gambling ads.
www.techdirt.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27d
I'm entirely open to smart inquiries into how smartphones and social media affect the social fabric, but I'm just not open to pretending we suddenly forgot everything else we know about the world. Like come on

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27d
The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

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simine vazire @simine.com · 29d
Congratulations to @bethclarke.bsky.social on her PhD graduation!! It’s been amazing watching you become the incredible scholar that you are, thanks for letting me come along for the ride!
You’re the best! 🎉🥂🌟
Simine and Beth in graduation regalia outside Selfie of Beth and Simine holding glasses of sparkling wine in graduation regalia.

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Dec 12
Shut up and give me some free Apple stuff 😜

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Dec 12
Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Dec 11
Looking good!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Dec 10
💥 Why did the word ENSHITTIFICATION catch on?

#CoryDoctorow thinks people like a little cussing — & the word captures how tech platforms make the web frustrating & hostile.

Want more? 🎧 Listen to the full episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ens...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Dec 10
NEW: A report from Oxford's @bonavero.bsky.social identifies, examines, and addresses the counter-arguments for ten key reasons for the UK to remain in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Find out more ⬇️
#HumanRightsDay
The analysed benefits of staying in the ECHR are: - Safeguarding basic rights in workplaces, courtrooms, hospitals, care homes and newsrooms. - Protecting people at risk, including children, people in care, and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery. - Defending privacy in an age of mass surveillance and data harvesting (e.g. DNA retention limits and bulk interception safeguards). - Enabling accountability after major failures such as the Hillsborough disaster. - Protecting free speech and democracy, and respecting parliamentary sovereignty. - Providing increased protection compared with common law protections, including by providing an external source of accountability through the European Court of Human Rights - Providing rights protections that stand the test of time, adapting to new circumstances and new threats. - Supporting peace and stability in Northern Ireland. - Enabling cooperation on border control, security, data sharing and tackling cross-border crime.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Dec 10
Two-thirds of quantitative articles in the latest volume of American Sociological Review provide at least their code and a link to the data, which is progress over past years but still very bad.
Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
In the most recent volume, two-thirds of papers based on quantitative analysis provided replication packages.
familyinequality.wordpress.com

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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · Dec 10
Join us for a PhD in affective neuroscience at the Donders Institute (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy - PhD candidate in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
Are you passionate about making societal impact through scientific innovation? We invite applications for a PhD project in the field of cognitive ...
www.radboudumc.nl

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · Dec 10
You absolutely couldn’t write it better. Amazing.
Text showing that visits to pornhub are down 1.5 per month. Text showing that 1.4 million people now use VPNs

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · Dec 9
I'm suspicious of British journalism on child safety topics, but it's the Guardian so this is actually very good. I'm happy to see the emphasis on proactive prevention & education, a mention of restorative justice, and explicitly saying Ofcom alone can't fix this. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Dec 9
Looks like Australia's social media ban came into effect. Age verification appears based on 1) facial scan age estimation or 2) ID scan. This in turn appears to be done by third party companies, so opens doors to privacy issues / leaks.

Also, what exactly was the evidence base for this ban again?

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Dec 8
It's great this research is continuing at scale even though the tidal wave of pandemic-adjacent scientific activity has long since passed.

If you know of anything like this still being pursued in the social or psychological sciences please share!

I want to believe it was more than a fad...
carlzimmer.com Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Dec 6
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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