The Media Psychology & Methods Team wishes you a good end to 2025!

The year was special for us: We started as a team, had our first retreat, conferences, teaching, and christmas party (together with the sci comm team).

Off to new adventures!

(But until then: Winter break ❄️☕️🦦)

Our member @philippesloksnath.bsky.social, together with @saarataavila.bsky.social were awarded with the KLI PhD Seedgrant (€ 3000) for their project related with JRP (@jresearcherprog.bsky.social): Knowing What We Don't Know: Targeting Overconfidence to Combat Misinformation. Congratulations 🎉👏

What’s just as cringe as listening to your own voice recording?
Seeing yourself in a magazine 🙂

All jokes aside, I was interviewed about chatbot companionship and loneliness by a lovely journalist—so much fun (and yes, they even mailed a copy to zurich!!).

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Dear Santa, a GRC travel grant is *exactly* what I wished for this Christmas. It’s so amazing that UZH & the Graduate Campus support early-career researchers. Can’t wait to visit VU Amsterdam and collaborate with @thvu.bsky.social this upcoming spring!

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

Happy to have received this note by @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social!

I don't review as much as I used to, so this was a pleasant surprise.

It's a great idea of JMP to publicly acknowledge reviewers. Reviewing is an important part of quality control with little concrete benefits, so everything helps!

Hit 100 citations on Google Scholar today, yay! 🥳
Somewhere out there, a hundred people found my work useful… or at least cite-able. Thank you my friends 🫂

Schon gewusst? Das fög hat einen eigenen Newsletter. 📬
Mehrmals im Jahr gibt’s kompakte Updates zu Forschungsprojekten, Publikationen, Events und mehr.

👉 Abo: web.swissnewsletter.ch/e/f0ca2749b7...

👀 Letzte Ausgabe Dezember 2025: web.swissnewsletter.ch/e/f0ca2749b7...

Bild: rinckad (Unsplash)

We just wrapped an energizing 2-day workshop in Nuremberg - the first in-person meeting of the full PROMISE team! Hosted by our colleagues at Friedrich-Alexander University, the meetup marked a first milestone in our 3-year international project. (1/4)

I introduced #openscience practices in my undergrad BA thesis seminar and offered bonus points for applying them (inspired by @tobiasdienlin.com)

So happy to see that students find it useful. Some are already running a priori power analyses. Makes me genuinely happy 😊

All bundled up during an individual session I held on parasocial encounters in @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social’s Health Communication seminar 🧣
Thanks so much for the invitation (and great pic!) 💫

Hello Bluesky👋 This is our first post as the IKMZ Media Psychology & Methods division.
Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season, we thought we’d start with a game: Can you guess the age Spotify gave to our members? 🎧🤔
Our Team will reply in the comments ⬇️
P.S. That’s us at our traditional team-fondue 🫕�