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Amira Skeggs

@amiraskeggs.bsky.social
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PhD student @ orben.group | psychology, tech, design, writing | email: ahts2@cam.ac.uk | amiraskeggs.com

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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New essay published today in the Berlin Review 📚 You can read it here: theberlinliteraryreview.com/amira-skeggs...
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨New preprint 🚨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨-𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 Using a novel micro-narrative method, we collected ~ 900 first-person accounts of social media harms from young people across the UK and US.
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Very elegant new paper from @georgiaturner.bsky.social on RL models for social media behaviours!
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New Perspective out in @nathumbehav.nature.com today with co-author @orbenamy.bsky.social! We propose a new framework for designing 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support well-being, grounded in self-determination theory 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social media interventions to improve well-being - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Perspective, the authors review current interventions on social media use among adolescents and propose a new theoretical model based on self-determination theory to guide the effective design...
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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you’re still around at the very end of the day, come hear me talk about how we re-conceptualise EMA-type questions as an approach for helping parents tune into their child’s emotions throughout the day #CHI2025
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Presenting our work alongside Petr Slovak on micro-narratives, a new method to elicit stories of lived experience at #chi2025 #ai #wellbeing
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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@amiraskeggs.bsky.social shares new work on developing a remote narrative elicitation method terms micro narratives. #cockneychai2025 #chi2025
Person at lectern presents talk on developing LLM based micro narratives.
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Notes on Science @nos-cambridge.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In this Science Metaphor, Monica Emili Garcia-Segura explores why understanding the metabolism across each level of biological function is like opening an intricate nesting doll.
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Metabolism: the Matryoshka dolls of life — NoS
Understanding the metabolism across each level of biological function is like opening an intricate nesting doll
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My recent chat with @adamclarkestes.com for @vox.com about digital wellness tools and the limitations of screen time metrics!
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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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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
🚨New preprint with co-author @OrbenAmy. In this paper, we introduce a framework for social media interventions and explore their potential to improve wellbeing (particularly for adolescent users).
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Currently recruiting! Do you know any 16-20 year olds who want to take part in social media research? We are looking for 10 adolescents to join our paid advisory panel in June! @mrccbu
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 17/10/2022
Very excited to be presenting Kindred’s new UK Toolkit at the #EmergingMinds Summit in Oxford today @UniofOxford @EmergingMindsUK
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 29/08/2022
Digital technologies offer an opportunity to tackle our youth mental health crisis. I discuss the potential for digital solutions to improve mental health care in Australia. Published in The Policy Maker from @JMIPublicPolicy
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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 26/05/2022
Super excited to launch Kindred’s 'Mental Health Toolkit for Young People' @jjxe_ and I created this toolkit to help young people navigate mental health resources. It’s free, reviewed by psychologists and easy to use.
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