@dougaparry
Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (🇳🇱) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods 🖥️ https://dougaparry.com 🇿🇦 From South Africa
The death of writing will not be caused solely by AI; it will also be perpetrated by concerned educators who now perceive academic essays as outdated. In the end, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: If students are solely trained to do oral exams, it is unsurprising if writing skills take a hit
Yes, I feel like every other time that I try to do something on the OSF it breaks. Most times I end up having to do things multiple times to get it to eventually work.
Attention is not a fixed resource that some people “have” and others lack. It is a regulatory system that allocates effort based on expected reward and uncertainty. When outcomes are unclear or delayed, attention naturally destabilises. External structure often works better than pressure.
Hard to know given the wide range of what "ban" actually meant here...
snake_case FTW!
I’m sure. I haven’t looked in detail at this so can’t say about accuracy.
With Prism last week, it does seem like academic tools are increasingly in the cross hairs here
I’m also not necessarily opposed to these tools, this just seems like an odd target for automation.
Another one of life’s joys being automated away..
For sure! I use 2x quite a lot, but 4x feels really extreme (at least on typical YouTube content)
um... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
I guess that's one way to get training data from scientists.
(notwithstanding the fact that this is trying to replace one of the best parts of doing science...)
Following A Perfect Circle's Disillusioned and 1000 Friends by Alien Weaponry, it seems like there's a new entry in the "anti-digital technology" genre with Primal by Soen focusing on mindless scrolling and hollowness..
youtu.be/rlSAhFy9YUw?...
youtu.be/BIsH686xWl0?...
youtu.be/R-2GKj25lQE?...
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Screenshot of a preprint titled “Digital Behaviourism: A functional approach to behaviour in digital environments”
Our preprint has evolved!
v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives.
It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Ok, that makes sense... *Industry* being the operant term.
Just to check my understanding: if an author previously collaborated with Company X (e.g., Microsoft) and 2-years later publishes a paper on Platform Y (e.g., Instagram) without disclosing that prior collaboration, this would be coded as an undisclosed disclosable tie under their approach?
For #ICA26 I received many very useful reviews (on both accepted and rejected papers) but I think these two take the cake (on a student led paper).
Sure, it’s what we wanted to hear, but…
About 18 months ago I sent this letter, along with a copy of my book, to a number of MPs and peers, including Wes Streeting. I never got a response (which to be fair was my baseline expectation), but it’s still disheartening to see today’s news about Haidt’s invitation to speak to policymakers.
YouTube now offering 4x playback speed... um, what?
I quite regularly speed up content but 4x feels excessive. I'm genuinely curious what the experience is (not a premium subscriber) and motivations would be here (both for users and the platform).
Yes, time spent on platform Z = still no idea what someone is doing or what content they are engaging with.
The holy grail data to actually understand what is going on here..
We're talking correlations here though...
"In each model, we used the social media use variable measured at the same time point as the outcome variable (i.e., from the same evening)."
Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
💯 This was something that @cjsewall9.bsky.social and I tried here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) to limited (?) success...
Definitely!
Though in this instance a 2 second scan of the reference list gives away the game - not a single paper that you'd expect to see in a review/meta-analysis on this topic.
While this is partly a story about AI, I see this case more as a story about fake journals polluting the literature.
I can only assume that no peer review happened here?!
Seems that this was a scheme by the journal to boost IF?
And now We Lost the Sea (performing departure songs in its entirety!) has been added 🤯
Congrats @fassiluisa.bsky.social! 🪅
💯! Definitely. When I was a bachelor's student I would actually race with some of my friends to finish first as we all realised that we did better with our intuitive judgements than when we overthought questions (at least for social science subjects...different story for maths/stats/coding subjects)
Yes, I think time management itself is an important outcome, though for me I see this more at the level of assignments than tests.
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This is important for all platform researchers! Please read and sign the OPEN LETTER to the EU Commission and share widely in your networks!
I create an archive of the page with the Wayback Machine (there's a browser extension) from the Internet Archive and then use that URL when needed. So far seems to have worked
dunk!festival 2026:
“Here, have all your favourite bands at once.”
🔥 Russian Circles, Caspian, Pelican, The Evpatoria Report 🔥