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Allison Eden

@aeden.bsky.social
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Comm Prof|Michigan State|Entertainment media|Well-being|Morality|CommNeuro

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Want to learn more? Check out this great @ucdlands.bsky.social piece by Alex Russell lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/media-choices-mental-health Article: doi.org/10.1007/s44382-026-00040-5 Big THANK YOU to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social & @aeden.bsky.social this wouldn't have been possible without you!
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How to Hack Media Choices to Improve Mental Health, According to New Research
New research in communication finds that college students who are lonely tend to choose media likely to make them feel worse while those who are depressed or anxious tend to choose media that might im...
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 What is a public research university for? There's no single answer! It conducts research that helps us understand ourselves and the world around us. It trains the next generation of leaders and innovators. Valerie Klein shows what happens when these things intersect.
Valerie Klein presents here research at UC Davis
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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Important #ICA27 update for colleagues planning to submit: you can now be designated as presenter on up to THREE submissions 🎊
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Context Lab @contextlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In our latest study, led by @paxt0n4.bsky.social, we build a geometric framework to ask how our memories change with the passage of time ⏰ Title: Delayed recountings preserve but simplify the semantic geometry of earlier recountings Preprint: osf.io/mhxtd_v1 Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/m... 🧵
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dan Ariely is, by any reasonable metric, a way more significant figure both within his discipline and in the culture at large than Jason Arday ever was
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love this ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Check out our new tool where you can pick an issue and see where I stand, in my own words. Made by volunteers❤️ ➡️ tools4abdul.com ⬅️
tools4abdul.xn--com-dt9a
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/07/2026
Very much enjoying this talk -- it provides a very nice counter-narrative. Doomerism about the younger generations is so depressing and not really justified given many tangible positive developments.
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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Catastrophic for science.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
👇🎯 Once again, this is an existential crisis for American universities, & our presidents & chancellors are completely absent from the public square in speaking out against it & informing voters & students & parents of the magnitude of the threat. A total leadership failure. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What have you read? What will you read next? Why? In a new paper in @pnasnexus.org, led by the brilliant @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, we show that people forage for books using the same mechanisms they forage for food. What will you read next? Start with this 🧵
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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Christina Viehmann @christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hi #ica26, interested in computational approaches and media use & effects? This is for you: 📢 CfP CCR Special Issue: From normalization to next frontiers: Media use & effects in the computational era. 🗓Abstracts due: Oct 16 journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement... @icacm.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Media Use and Effects in the Computational Era | Computational Communication Research
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Pantelis P. Analytis @pantelispa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My team, Minsu Park and I just launched 12points.science. It’s a citizen science platform and app where you can rate, rank, and comment on Eurovision entries with your friends. There is a deeper research goal behind the glitter 🎤🧪 #Eurovision #OpenData
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Emre Yavuz @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A fun challenge to lead this project throughout my PhD! So grateful to my colleagues for making this happen 🚀
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is how many folks treat Disney Studies—the literal Mickey Mouse degrees—right now. Popular media is one of the most powerful and influential forces on the planet, yet it is so often viewed as unimportant. You can't understand how the world works unless you understand how Mickey Mouse works.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...
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The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools
Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/03/2026
BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.
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Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online · 18/03/2026
Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back! Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker Submission deadline: June 5th. → commscifutures.com
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Home | Communication Science Futures
Communication Science Futures is a conference aimed at addressing pressing issues and opportunities in the interdisciplinary, social...
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Rachael Kee @rachaelkee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨 Communication science has no shortage of data. But what do we do with all of it? Experience sampling, sensors, digital trace, location aware observations are growing in popularity and scale.
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Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1/ 🧵PROCESS Model 4 is the wrong tool to test mediation in an experiment. The c’ path turns prediction into description and prevents falsification. New preprint with @chriscarpenter.bsky.social and @beccafraz.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/ps... explains why.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch Her in the libraryDHS illegally arrested me please help

Text against image of her knees
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla @apvelilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New preprint with @psmaldino.bsky.social on the evolution of similarity-biased learning: osf.io/preprints/so... This mathematical treatment both simplifies and extends our previous simulation treatment of the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Rebecca Frazer @beccafraz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I'm a Nordic model social democrat because well it's proven to work in several countries with decades of evidence. Maybe we should tax the rich and provide services. Just an idea.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/02/2026
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Depressed? Anxious? Lonely? What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media? In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵Thread
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Using the Drift Diffusion Model to Examine Relationships Between Mental Health and Media Selection Dynamics
A substantial body of research has investigated how people’s transient affective state influences their media selection, as well as how selected media influences subsequent affective states. However, ...
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The worse content makes us feel, the more likely we are to keep consuming it. Our brains prioritize negative and exciting content, especially when we’re in a bad mood. Curiosity offers a way out by nudging us toward new, more rewarding, choices. lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/rage-bait-cu...
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Why Rage Bait Works and How Curiosity Can Help Us Stop Doomscrolling
To provoke outrage is the point of rage bait. Research in communication is starting to explain how rage bait hacks the way our brains decide what we choose to read, watch and even click and swipe onli...
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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 09/01/2026
Are you a doctoral student exploring the social dynamics of the internet and digital technologies? Applications are now open for the Oxford Internet Institute's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) 2026! Learn more and apply: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...
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OII | Summer Doctoral Programme
Researching the internet or technology? This annual programme brings together outstanding doctoral students from across the world for a fortnight of study.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
goddamnit, your email found me.
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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern University! Check this out. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉comap@northwestern.edu
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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Allison Eden @aeden.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Very excited about this project introducing an integrative character-based network framework predicting success of novels and films. Idea and analysis credit to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, with big thanks for including me, @fhopp.bsky.social @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Anna Wolfe. More info here:
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan! There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :) northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media, ...
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Rebecca Frazer @beccafraz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Out now in Scientific Reports! Despite high correlations, ChatGPT models failed to replicate human moral judgments. We propose tests beyond correlation to compare LLM data and human data. With @mattgrizz.bsky.social @andyluttrell.bsky.social @chasmonge.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I am super excited to see the #CommSky community at NCA 2025! Stay updated with an NCA feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:... You can be featured by simply including these hashtags in your posts: #NCA25 #NCA2025
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