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Amanda Ferguson

@amandaferg.bsky.social
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Postdoc @mrccbu @cambridge_uni || JRF @DarwinCollege || prev clinical psych @UofT || studying emotions, mental health, and tech use in teens || she/her 🌈

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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🔷New in Biological Psychiatry🔷 **Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media** In this Review, we argue that the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My team has got news! Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️ www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Cambridge leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people
Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🎉 Grant Success for two Digital Mental Health Group Senior Research Associates 🎉 Both @amandaferg.bsky.social and Amrit Kaur Purba have been awarded prestigious, competitive pilot grants from The Huo Family Foundation as Principal Investigators.
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🚨 Get Paid to Get High! 🚨 Are you a regular cannabis user? Help us uncover the cognitive effects of cannabis in a new study at U of Toronto Scarborough! Time: 1.5–2 hrs Compensation: $40 Eligibility: Male (per Health Canada restrictions) Take the prescreening survey: tinyurl.com/ytdrrjpb
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