reminded me of the hero's journey :D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27... who's the villain in your manuscript?

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉
Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔

Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Also, can’t wait to welcome our guest speakers into the classroom soon! 📣

And here I am, for the first time in the @ikmz.bsky.social newsletter ✅
"Influencers & Digital Health" has just started and I already feel it’s a blessing ✨... not only for the students (I hope!) but also for me.

It’s amazing how smoothly the healthcomm theories can be explained through TikToks 🎥

New code review response just dropped:

I asked ChatGPT to help me create a slide to introduce the topic of my next class on "Influencers and Digital Health"... and I absolutely l-o-v-e the result! Let’s see if my students will be as excited as I am to meet the TPB 👀✨

We're happy to have @laurentwang.bsky.social come visit our division at @ikmz.bsky.social Tuesday next week!

Everyone onsite invited to join :)

I am very feeling grateful for the chance to spend time with such smart and amazing people! It's crazy how a couple of days can motivate you so much...
Next destination? Duisburg @mepsy.bsky.social see you soon

In the pic = our fondue night in Thun 🫕💫

✨ Invest in organizing – each day spend some time planning the day/week (especially as a postdoc I really need to improve my multi-tasking)
✨ Teaching: be creative – you have freewill! / lectures are more than talking: it’s also about guiding students on how to better prepare for the next lecture.

My 3 main take-aways I’ll try to carry:
✨ Keep it simple – fancy and complex methods can distract (as an overthinker, this is a tough one to implement D:)

Got the best feedback on my upcoming studies from my supervisor+PhD colleagues @naru96.bsky.social @shinyikang.bsky.social @philippesloksnath.bsky.social (and hopefully gave some back too). Presentations alternated with inspiring “how to survive & thrive in academia” lectures by @tobiasdienlin.com

…first retreat of IKMZ Division MediaPsych & Methods is a wrap! 🎉 (also my first academic retreat ever)

lol I included it yesterday in our manuscript (: synchronicity

Given the gravity of the topic, we're doubling down at @natureportfolio.nature.com on fighting misinformation with a special collection on health misinformation I'm (co)-editing.

Please share and submit your work! Open for submissions.

www.nature.com/collections/...

Partic. interested in feedback on this:

- We conduct a glorious serial mediation with cross-sectional data 🥶
- BUT, underlying theory is plausible: Perc of tech→grats→use→attachment
- We hope to control for all relevant confounders
- We acknowledge estimates imperfectly capture estimands

Thoughts?

📣 New preprint out!

In "It’s her! Investigating relationship development with social AI chatbots", we explore how people form emotional bonds with chatbots.

📄 Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
✍️ with @tobiasdienlin.com

burgirs <3 (unless you're a vegetarian like me stuck in an airport in the land of endless bacon 😅🇺🇸))

5 years ago, @niklasjohannes.bsky.social and I summarized the literature on the effects of digital technology use on adolescent well-being as follows.

Do you think the findings still apply?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Right after the talk, I celebrated with the new research team, where I’m now a postdoc, from @ikmz.bsky.social over a (well-deserved, they said!) deep dish pizza 🍕 .
You can probably tell from my face just how grateful I am 😊

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present the final study of my doctoral dissertation at the @icahdq.bsky.social conference in Denver, Colorado. This experiment explores how emotional support provision can obscure the critical evaluation of mental health misinformation.

The feeling of finally being able to sit down with your new teammates! I‘m so pleased to be working alongside @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social @philippesloksnath.bsky.social —two very special and talented individuals! Here’s to out journey ahead!

And the same goes to you-CU soon @shinyikang.bsky.social!