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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉

@nicolafh.bsky.social

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She/her. Cyberpsychology at IADT. Researches online communication & dating Hosts a cyberpsychology podcast - “In Bits” with @drliam.bsky.social https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R1n04owVEAH4k8OaajcyZ?si=evh1YzIJSX6XhNubur-A8A Www.nicolafoxhamilton.com

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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social · Nov 16

I created a cyberpsychology / media effects etc starter pack from my following list - please let me know if there’s anyone I’ve missed or if you would like to be added!

#Cyberpsychlogy

go.bsky.app/HkdeCxF

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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t manage this well - I use the small tasks to procrastinate on bigger ones. But I’ve friends who allocate particular periods during the week for the quicker stuff - two mornings or afternoons to do all that stuff and forget about it outside of that!

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 1d

Very happy to be part of this project and to collaborate with several great colleagues! Follow our social media accounts to stay updated :)

PROMISE @promiseproject.bsky.social · 1d

On World Mental Health Day we’re launching PROMISE, a research project exploring youth well-being and social media policies.

We aim to understand how these policies affect young people online and develop data-driven recommendations to support their well-being.

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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 7d

Enough of puff pieces on AI in academia, THIS is the guidance we've been waiting for 😂

#AcademicSky

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 7d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

profserious.substack.com

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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social · 9d

I’m at a panel discussion in a different event about exactly the same topic!

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13d

If this can happen in our house, it can happen in yours. Check.

#Spéirghorm #CheckTheRegister

www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/search

Check the Register

www.checktheregister.ie

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13d

Q. Can you vote in the Presidential election next month?

A. Of course I can. I always vote.

Q. Are you on the Register?

A. Why wouldn't I be?

*Checks Register. Name absent*

Q. Who erased me?

*Applies to be registerred*

There are only a few days left to register.

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 23d

Two permanent job opportunities at Queen's University, Belfast - one in IR and one in Public Policy. www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJob...

Academic Opportunities | Career Opportunities at Queen's | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 24d

been saying this for years: stop using academia[.]edu. This is real bad folks.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 24d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 24d

I hate how much AI makes me think of Marx and being alienated from our labor. It begs these questions:
1. Do you want to be a writer, or do you want to have written?
2. And for academics…do you want to publish, or do you want to think?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · Sep 1

" ...there was 'concerning evidence' that...some providers were 'over-anticipating the eventual needs of regulators about providing personal information for future investigations' and were building tools to enable regulators or law enforcement to retrace actions of people"

*surprised Pickachu face*

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Aug 31

Trial of tech that could be used to keep Australian under-16s off social media finds some errors ‘inevitable’

Report from age assurance trial finds multiple fallback options may be needed, as communications minister says there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The official trial of age assurance technologies that could be used to keep under-16s from accessing social media has found that while there were effective options, errors were inevitable and age estimation tools were more likely to make mistakes for users within two years of 16. The long-awaited report from the trial found that companies may need to provide multiple “fallback options” such as ID checks in those cases where age estimation technology fails. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · Sep 1

Scott Aaronson's review of The Access Principle (www.scottaaronson.com/writings/jou...) hits hard: "what’s missing at this point is mostly anger--a justified response to being asked to donate our time, not to Amnesty International or the Sierra Club, but to the likes of Kluwer and Elsevier."

I have an ingenious idea for a company. My company will be in the business of selling computer games. But, unlike other computer game companies, mine will never have to hire a single programmer, game designer, or graphic artist. Instead I'll simply find people who know how to make games, and ask them to donate their games to me. Naturally, anyone generous enough to donate a game will immediately relinquish all further rights to it. From then on, I alone will be the copyright-holder, distributor, and collector of royalties. This is not to say, however, that I'll provide no "value-added." My company will be the one that packages the games in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece.

But why would developers donate their games to me? Because they'll need my seal of approval. I'll convince developers that, if a game isn't distributed by my company, then the game doesn't "count" -- indeed, barely even exists -- and all their labor on it has been in vain.

Admittedly, for the scheme to work, my seal of approval will have to mean something. So before putting it on a game, I'll first send the game out to a team of experts who will test it, debug it, and recommend changes. But will I pay the experts for that service? Not at all: as the final cherry atop my chutzpah sundae, I'll tell the experts that it's their professional duty to evaluate, test, and debug my games for free!

On reflection, perhaps no game developer would be gullible enough to fall for my scheme. I need a community that has a higher tolerance for the ridiculous -- a community that, even after my operation is unmasked, will study it and hold meetings, but not "rush to judgment" by dissociating itself from me. But who on Earth could possibly be so paralyzed by indecision, so averse to change, so immune to common sense?

I've got it: academics!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you Gráinne!!

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Grainne Kirwan @kirwanpsych.bsky.social · Aug 20

The @inbitspodcast.com is a wonderfully accessible, entertaining, and informative way of learning about cyberpsychology. I learn something new with every episode. Well done @nicolafh.bsky.social and @drliam.bsky.social

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Aug 26

1: This is a really cool study I was excited to be a part of! I was skeptical that brief unguided single session interventions could be effective in adults with depression as we had two studies in which we found minuscule effects vs weak controls (waiting), one in a large sample, N=828. I was wrong!

Benji Kaveladze @benji700.bsky.social · Aug 26

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults

What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Of course!

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · Aug 10

On the day when Israel killed four more Al Jazeera journalists, it's time we recognize that Israel killed in Gaza more journalists than ever died in any other war, including the World Wars. Source: attached research at Brown University. Let this sink in.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · Aug 11

Have you seen a Temu advert claiming: "If you click on this promo video and download the TEMU app, you'll receive £100 via PayPal."?

You actually need to make purchases and collect coins, spending up to £4,800 to claim the cash amount. 🤦

Misleading @adstandards.bsky.social complaint filed!

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Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social · Aug 10

None of this keeps kids safe or away from harmful material. Use of VPNs has rocketed, raising even more privacy risks and shuffling kids into even more extreme, less regulated corners of the internet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz

From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · Aug 8

The above link stopped working, so I attach a working link: forms.gle/FKsAVEs9jGvQ...

Mini quiz: 2025 Gaza or 1945 Warsaw?

Can you distinguish between photos of 1945 Warsaw and 2025 Gaza? Let's see! The quiz should take you max half minute and it's 100% anonymous.

forms.gle

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Aug 8

Another quick, scalable digital literacy intervention that can help people identify deepfakes!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.23492

Digital literacy interventions can boost humans in discerning deepfakes

Deepfakes, i.e., images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), can erode trust in institutions and compromise election outcomes, as people often struggle to discern real images from deepfakes. Imp...

arxiv.org

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Aug 8

You can still get 20% off the paperback with the code CUP20 on the Columbia University Press website!
cup.columbia.edu/book/misguid...

Misguided | Columbia University Press

Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? This wide-ranging and comprehensive book shines a light on how false beliefs take root and spread, explori... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Aug 8

Exciting news from my publisher—Misguided is now one of the most popular books on the Columbia University Press website! I'm so grateful for all the support!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Jul 27

"workers trying to make repairs or operate water infrastructure have been directly targeted and killed. Working in the water sector has now become a deadly job."

In Gaza, water kills too

Providing water, searching for water, drinking water, swimming in water can all get you killed.

aje.io

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