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Alicia Gilbert
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PhD candidate communication science @ifpmainz.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social
digital disconnection | social media | self-regulation | well-being
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krivachytamas.bsky.social
5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.

5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.

Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
Abstract mal anders: In einem neuen Video der @unimainz.bsky.social gebe ich einen Einblick in unsere neue Studie zu #Disconnection und #Wohlbefinden

#sciencecomm #wisskomm #digitalwellbeing #tiktok

www.tiktok.com/@unimainz/vi...
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
📬 Pub alert

Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?

Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...
A screenshot of the article title "Disconnect to Recharge: Well-Being Benefits of Digital Disconnection in Daily Life" and the abstract.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
masurphil.bsky.social
NEW PREPRINT 💡

Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach.

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Read on for more information (1/9) 👇
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
and here we are in 2025, when @economist.com publishes nonsense on AI facereading for evaluating people's hirability -- the lack of historic awareness is staggering
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
polcomm.bsky.social
🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live!

The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver.

Explore this resource here
👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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aanixel.bsky.social
Had fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end!

youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...
State of the Science: Digital Media and Addiction Webinar
YouTube video by Neely Center
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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aliciaernst.bsky.social
🎉 📣 Out now in Communication Research! 📣 🎉

What makes us stop using #media in a specific situation?

A new study by my great co-author @annastockmann.bsky.social and me examines situational #disengagement from #TikTok and #Instagram. 📱 🔚

Find the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
anishaarenz.bsky.social
Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
icamobile.bsky.social
✨ Scholar in the Spotlight is here!

Meet Rich Ling - our very first featured scholar! Discover his insights and what makes his tick!

Here's the fun part: each scholar picks the next one to spotlight. Who will Rich choose? 👀

Read the full interview 👉 www.icamobile.org/spotlight-ri...

#ICAMobile
November 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
bsiepe.bsky.social
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 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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felix-dietrich.de
Thank you @overbye.bsky.social — going to Greece to present the paper wasn’t so bad either 👀

Also thanks to my wonderful co-authors @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @rkreling.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @mscharkow.bsky.social, @leonardreinecke.bsky.social and Benedikt! More to come soon!
The research group at the coast of Hermoupolis, Syros
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
5 years of the digitox seminar series 🥳 It's now practically an institution for those interested in digital disconnection research

A must attend in Jan 👇
mqrmobile.bsky.social Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · Oct 10
Looking forward to being on this STACKED panel celebrating five years of the Digitox seminar series on digital disconnection 🎉 We'll be taking stock of the past, present, and future of disconnection 📵

www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...
Digitox seminar January 2026 - Department of Media and Communication
The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?
www.hf.uio.no
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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aufdroeseler.bsky.social
ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
New work from our lab 💕
Finally a paper with all my lab besties
rkreling.bsky.social Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Oct 9
Interested in…
a) taking theories out of the lab (and try to specify them to work irl)
b) computational methods (data donations, LLM content analysis)
c) media coping
d) all of the above?
Then our new HCR-paper is *just* for you! doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
mqrmobile.bsky.social
Another year, another full slate of @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar events! Here are the details:
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
💡Pub alert 💡

Why do users stop a media activity?
Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️

The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Summary below ⬇️
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects).

Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure?

@mepsy.bsky.social
(1/3)
September 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
aliciagilbert.bsky.social
Doug will present our current project on digital #disconnection discourses at the #MediaPsych25 conference this Thursday! @mepsy.bsky.social

@chrdrn.bsky.social @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @dougaparry.bsky.social
dougaparry.bsky.social Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Sep 9
From r/nosurf to #digitaldetox: A computational analysis of discourses of technology resistance and digital well-being

@chrdrn.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social

We will present preliminary results from our analysis of Twitter & Reddit data.

📆 11.09, 16h15, LK051
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
leidecker-sandmann.bsky.social
🔥Hot off the press: Studie zur Repräsentation weiblicher Forschender in den Medien 👉
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
📰 Inhaltsanalyse: 4.860 Medienartikel
👩‍🔬 Nur 18% der zitierten Expert:innen sind Frauen
📊 Frauenanteil in der Forschung: ca. 31%
➡️ Deutliche Sichtbarkeitslücke für weibliche Forschende
Zwei männliche und eine weibliche Silhouette. Im Vordergrund Mikrophone wie bei einer Pressekonferenz
September 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
maxschindler.bsky.social
Guten Morgen, hier ist der zweite Teil Juckt?! zur Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqJo91c/

Viel Spaß ☺️
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
klingelhoefer.bsky.social
Very cool breakdown of our study on the motivations of everyday digital disconnection in this TikTok Video (in German):
maxschindler.bsky.social Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Sep 2
Guten Morgen, die neuste Folge Juckt?! ist online: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVx1LFP/

Heute geht es um eine Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Der zweite Teil kommt Donnerstag - viel Spaß ☺️
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Alicia Gilbert
maxschindler.bsky.social
Guten Morgen, die neuste Folge Juckt?! ist online: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVx1LFP/

Heute geht es um eine Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Der zweite Teil kommt Donnerstag - viel Spaß ☺️
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM