Leo Röhlke
@leoroe.bsky.social
Sociologist (PhD) 📍Bern🇨🇭
Education, Digital Transformation & Social Stratification
Eurovision fan & puppy parent 🐶
Education, Digital Transformation & Social Stratification
Eurovision fan & puppy parent 🐶
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Leo Röhlke
@leoroe.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Our new study on the everyday effects of digital disconnection on well-being is finally out! 🎉
📬 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...
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...
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our new study on the everyday effects of digital disconnection on well-being is finally out! 🎉
📣New paper:
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
ICT interest and self-concept as determinants of Swiss adolescents’ vocational choices - Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
This study examines whether adolescents’ interest and self-concept regarding information and communication technologies (ICT) affect their subsequent career paths through the selection into different vocational education and training (VET) programs. Drawing on Eccles’ situated expectancy value theory and related theories, we argue that ICT interest and self-concept should influence adolescents’ vocational choices, possibly contributing to occupational gender segregation regarding ICT. Using longitudinal data from the TREE2 study (Transitions into Education and Employment) on 1,995 Swiss adolescents transitioning into firm-based VET, we find strongly gendered patterns. ICT interest predicts selection into occupations with greater intensity of basic and advanced ICT use, but this positive association is driven entirely by girls. In contrast, ICT self-concept significantly predicts ICT use intensity in future occupations only among boys. Selection into ICT specialist occupations is associated exclusively with adolescents’ ICT self-concept rather than their ICT interest, questioning whether girls’ lower average ICT interest represents a relevant barrier for entry into ICT specialist occupations in the context of VET. Our findings emphasize that ICT are an important content domain of adolescents’ vocational choices today and highlight how gendered interests and self-concepts towards ICT perpetuate occupational gender segregation.
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
📣New paper:
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Are Swiss adolescents' (gendered) self-perceptions towards ICT related to selection into VET occupations?
💡ICT interest ↔️ ICT-intensive careers
💡ICT self-concept ↔️ ICT-specialist occupations
💡Gender diff.s in ICT interest contribute to occupational segregation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
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Another new paper out - this one is about public support for the digitalization of education systems. Many in politics believe that the promotion of digitalization in education is a no-brainer, this paper shows that the public is more cautious...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries
This paper investigates how citizens perceive and evaluate the digitalization of education. Drawing on original survey data from six OECD countries (Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the US)...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Another new paper out - this one is about public support for the digitalization of education systems. Many in politics believe that the promotion of digitalization in education is a no-brainer, this paper shows that the public is more cautious...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
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@leoroe.bsky.social finds no evidence that early adolescents spend less time on enrichment, physical activity, or sleep after acquiring their first mobile phone. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@leoroe.bsky.social finds no evidence that early adolescents spend less time on enrichment, physical activity, or sleep after acquiring their first mobile phone. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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What happens when kids get their first smartphone?
They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or…
From @leoroe.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#psych
They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or…
From @leoroe.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#psych
July 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What happens when kids get their first smartphone?
They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or…
From @leoroe.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#psych
They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or…
From @leoroe.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#psych
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You may have heard of the back-door criterion and the front-door criterion for causal identification.
Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).
Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).
July 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
You may have heard of the back-door criterion and the front-door criterion for causal identification.
Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).
Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).
Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
July 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday
June 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday
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Reposted by Leo Röhlke
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
1/2
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
1/2
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.
www.wsj.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
1/2
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes"
But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways
1/2
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
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Some cool German/Swiss postdoc opportunities for a quantitative sociologist or similar in this thread:
April 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some cool German/Swiss postdoc opportunities for a quantitative sociologist or similar in this thread:
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"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
🎉 Happy to share my first PhD paper, published in @journalcam.bsky.social!
💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱
💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies
💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common
doi.org/10.1080/1748...
💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱
💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies
💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common
doi.org/10.1080/1748...
February 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 Happy to share my first PhD paper, published in @journalcam.bsky.social!
💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱
💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies
💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common
doi.org/10.1080/1748...
💡 4 types of Swiss children’s ICT use 🧒📱
💡 Higher-SES: Limited use vs. learning-oriented use as competing strategies
💡 Lower-SES: Parents more critical of ICT, but limited use is still less common
doi.org/10.1080/1748...
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Finally an AI model full of self-doubt, constantly requiring external validation, and taking several months to write a single paragraph.
January 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Finally an AI model full of self-doubt, constantly requiring external validation, and taking several months to write a single paragraph.
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Best wishes! Interesting opportunity to join us in 2025: Sciences Po - CRIS (Paris) is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure track)! Candidates with a recent PhD dealing with digital inequalities with a solid methodological background + an ambitious research agenda www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
January 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Best wishes! Interesting opportunity to join us in 2025: Sciences Po - CRIS (Paris) is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure track)! Candidates with a recent PhD dealing with digital inequalities with a solid methodological background + an ambitious research agenda www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
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Are young men and women in Europe becoming more polarized in their political ideologies?
It depends. Across 32 countries:
14 show no meaningful gender gap
7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left
11 show widening modern gender gaps
osf.io/preprints/os...
It depends. Across 32 countries:
14 show no meaningful gender gap
7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left
11 show widening modern gender gaps
osf.io/preprints/os...
January 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Are young men and women in Europe becoming more polarized in their political ideologies?
It depends. Across 32 countries:
14 show no meaningful gender gap
7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left
11 show widening modern gender gaps
osf.io/preprints/os...
It depends. Across 32 countries:
14 show no meaningful gender gap
7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left
11 show widening modern gender gaps
osf.io/preprints/os...
Christmas-y vibes in Paris 🎄✨ Was a pleasure to present results from my collab w/ @rsmloh.bsky.social at the Digital Inequalities Symposium at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social Super cool to meet other early-career researchers interested in this fascinating topic and a great way to end the year!
December 20, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Christmas-y vibes in Paris 🎄✨ Was a pleasure to present results from my collab w/ @rsmloh.bsky.social at the Digital Inequalities Symposium at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social Super cool to meet other early-career researchers interested in this fascinating topic and a great way to end the year!
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How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍
More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 AM
How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍
More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
📄 New working paper!
We explore ICT-related career choices using Swiss longitudinal data.
💡 Key findings:
Girls’ choices align with their ICT interest, boys’ with their ICT self-concept. ICT interest does not predict choice of ICT-specialist careers.
🖥️ Implications for gender disparities in tech!
We explore ICT-related career choices using Swiss longitudinal data.
💡 Key findings:
Girls’ choices align with their ICT interest, boys’ with their ICT self-concept. ICT interest does not predict choice of ICT-specialist careers.
🖥️ Implications for gender disparities in tech!
ICT Interest and ICT Self-concept as Determinants of Adolescents' Vocational Choices. Implications for Gender Segregation in the Labor Market: http://osf.io/spjvb/
November 20, 2024 at 9:37 AM
📄 New working paper!
We explore ICT-related career choices using Swiss longitudinal data.
💡 Key findings:
Girls’ choices align with their ICT interest, boys’ with their ICT self-concept. ICT interest does not predict choice of ICT-specialist careers.
🖥️ Implications for gender disparities in tech!
We explore ICT-related career choices using Swiss longitudinal data.
💡 Key findings:
Girls’ choices align with their ICT interest, boys’ with their ICT self-concept. ICT interest does not predict choice of ICT-specialist careers.
🖥️ Implications for gender disparities in tech!
#ECSR2024 was amazing! Great vibe and high-quality research. And, of course, paella, sunshine, and all that rumba 🎶 Looking forward to next year‘s edition! #sociology
Many thanks to the organisers of the #ECSR in Barcelona for a great conference (and party!). #sociology
September 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM
#ECSR2024 was amazing! Great vibe and high-quality research. And, of course, paella, sunshine, and all that rumba 🎶 Looking forward to next year‘s edition! #sociology
New working paper out! I test whether phone use in early adolescence displaces academically beneficial activities, using DiD and longitudinal #TimeUse data 📱👧👦
Key finding: No time displacement effects on enrichment, sports, & sleep, but reduction in TV/movie watching.
dx.doi.org/10.48350/199...
Key finding: No time displacement effects on enrichment, sports, & sleep, but reduction in TV/movie watching.
dx.doi.org/10.48350/199...
BORIS
dx.doi.org
September 3, 2024 at 7:57 AM
New working paper out! I test whether phone use in early adolescence displaces academically beneficial activities, using DiD and longitudinal #TimeUse data 📱👧👦
Key finding: No time displacement effects on enrichment, sports, & sleep, but reduction in TV/movie watching.
dx.doi.org/10.48350/199...
Key finding: No time displacement effects on enrichment, sports, & sleep, but reduction in TV/movie watching.
dx.doi.org/10.48350/199...
Unser DigiPrim Bericht zum Status quo der Digitalisierung im Primarbereich in der Schweiz ist veröffentlicht 📖📊
Der Bericht zeigt erstmalig schweizweite Auswertungen zum Stand der #Digitalisierung in den #Primarschulen
doi.org/10.48350/193898 (Vollversion, Deutsch)
Kurzversionen in FR, IT, EN
Der Bericht zeigt erstmalig schweizweite Auswertungen zum Stand der #Digitalisierung in den #Primarschulen
doi.org/10.48350/193898 (Vollversion, Deutsch)
Kurzversionen in FR, IT, EN
June 21, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Unser DigiPrim Bericht zum Status quo der Digitalisierung im Primarbereich in der Schweiz ist veröffentlicht 📖📊
Der Bericht zeigt erstmalig schweizweite Auswertungen zum Stand der #Digitalisierung in den #Primarschulen
doi.org/10.48350/193898 (Vollversion, Deutsch)
Kurzversionen in FR, IT, EN
Der Bericht zeigt erstmalig schweizweite Auswertungen zum Stand der #Digitalisierung in den #Primarschulen
doi.org/10.48350/193898 (Vollversion, Deutsch)
Kurzversionen in FR, IT, EN
Im liberalen Sinne heißt liberal nicht einfach nur liberal.
Das BMBF hat geprüft, ob es Hochschulangestellten der FU Berlin, die politische Erklärungen unterschrieben haben, deshalb Fördermittel entziehen kann. Der Mailwechsel dazu ist dokumentiert. Falls noch jemand Illusionen darüber hatte, was das Ministerium unter Wissenschaftsfreiheit versteht.
Als Reaktion auf Kritik: Bildungsministerium wollte Fördermittel streichen
Dem NDR liegen Unterlagen vor, wonach das Bundesministerium für Bildung prüfen wollte, ob kritischen Hochschullehrenden ihre Fördermittel gestrichen werden können. Grundlage der Prüfung ist ein offene...
daserste.ndr.de
June 11, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Im liberalen Sinne heißt liberal nicht einfach nur liberal.