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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, good point re. The bots Beyond the bots I was also curious about the actual underlying services themselves too..

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a great overview of next steps for data/materials sharing after OSF. I'm curious, is there any discussion of moving preprint overlays like @psyarxivbot.bsky.social (not sure of profile... @improvingpsych.org) or @socarxiv.bsky.social off of @cos.io infrastructure? What are the alternatives?

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For context, the new @icahdq.bsky.social presentation policy.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thoughts on the unannounced (?) new submission/presentation policy for #ICA27? In principle I can see some form of limits supporting equality, but surely limits on submissions (say 3?) would be a better approach, especially given the ICA review lottery and the risk of a single ‘shot’ at it…

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A couple months back we (mostly @richardhuskey.bsky.social) tested this. Behavioural signatures are your best bet at detecting differences. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm back working after ~3 months off to care for my son. And it looks like its going to be an interesting time for social media regulation in the EU! I wrote something about my thoughts on the leaked proposal regulations for social media in the EU. www.linkedin.com/posts/dougap...

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A social media ban in the EU? Reflections on the leaked proposals | Douglas A. Parry

A social media ban in the EU? Stronger protections are needed, but banning young people is not the answer. Ahead of the expected announcement, some reflections on the leaked proposals, the promise o...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isn't this essentially the policy that most large CS and ML conferences use? Sure, in that context its easier because there's a fix outlet to review. In social science this would be the one useful feature of an actually centralised Manuscript *Central* to log review credits across journals...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good point. Will look into this.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

for sure! Measures of behaviour should measure the behaviour as directly as possible. Measures of latent constructs, beliefs, opinions, perceptions, states, attitudes, reflections, etc. etc. will of course need to involve self-reports.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is awesome! We're working on a (very short) methods introduction paper on this approach. Instant cite for your preprint.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

✅ ethics approval for human subjects research ✅ open data and materials required for quantitative research (exemptions apply) ✅ preregistrations for experiments ✅ CFA for reflective factors

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

but then they couldn't say that there is a *surge* in symptoms. Also, it's not consuming short-form videos that these included studies measured. bsky.app/profile/doug...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

increase...reduction...surge (?!) from cross sectional data. What are they even measuring? SFV & attention definitely deserves research focus, but I'm not convinced that the existing body of work provides any informative signal. Correlations based on self-reports of, in most cases, other things.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

💯 I lived on a different continent to my grandparents so could have one five minute voice call per year… now my son, in the same situation, has weekly zoom calls for my parents to read him stories…

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

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In-person conferences in 2026: yay or nay? | Eiko Fried

Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

and beyond quant practices: reflexivity Inclusion may also need something on diversity and global representation too..

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

perhaps also: FAIR principles (for transparency), reproducibility (somewhere), DORA, credit statements (or similar), moving away from JIF/h-index (incentivisation), team science (process), open syllabi, materials (training, not just who..). Not sure about RRs under discourse? Inclusion may need more

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Guidelines state that if you post a preprint that authors should please note that anonymity cannot be guaranteed any more..

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Who knew? The journal "Communication Methods and Measures" does not send papers out for review that have been preprinted? In 2026... Despite @tandfresearch.bsky.social policies to the contrary...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I could be missing some, but is @computationalcommunication.org the only comm-specific journal to have fully endorsed RRs?

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live Biffy Clyro Pelican Russian circles God is an Astronaut The Evpatoria Report The Ocean Black Dahlia Murder The Tallest Man on Earth The Prodigy Slipknot

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Well that’s me set for the long weekend… bucket list lineup!

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This paper with Emma? osf.io/preprints/so...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is a great read. Summarises a lot of recent ideas and conversations. Also reminds me somewhat of @anneo.bsky.social's social media era's presentation at #MediaPsych last year.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'll send along the other dataset that I mentioned earlier. I need to extract it from the rest of the data. It's similar to the other two from Craig. This paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... by @lucyhitcham.bsky.social also has PhQ9, logged & subjective smartphone use (data is on OSF). I have GAD7 too?

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Redirecting

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Odd, thanks for checking! I'll try on a different system tomorrow.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Looks super interesting! I see from this talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSgR... that @davidlazer.bsky.social gave that they have app-level data and biweekly mental health data too. cross-device data (well browser/phone) is also nice for studying behaviour

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I know the OP is tongue-in-cheek but out of interest I ran a quick-and-dirty check on SCOPUS. Looks like 1 review for every 10 primary papers (though probably an undercount for primary papers). I don't know what the ratio is for other areas, but that feels high?

Query A: Primary studies

TITLE-ABS-KEY(
("screen time" OR "digital media use" OR "social media use"
OR "smartphone use" OR "internet use")
)
AND (DOCTYPE(ar))
AND NOT (
DOCTYPE(re)
OR TITLE("review" OR "meta-analysis" OR "systematic review" OR "umbrella review")
)

= 28906 results

Query B: Reviews

TITLE-ABS-KEY(
("screen time" OR "digital media use" OR "social media use"
OR "smartphone use" OR "internet use")
)
AND (
DOCTYPE(re)
OR TITLE("review" OR "meta-analysis" OR "systematic review" OR "umbrella review")
)

=2846 results

Review density (reviews/100 studies) = 9.85 reviews per 100 primary studies

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If I understand that meta-analysis correctly almost all relevant IVs & DVs are self-report… (+ not directly targeting use). For the “clever experiment” (n=49), 3 meta-analyses find null effects. This is definitely something that we need more research on but Cal is way beyond any solid data here..

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Despite the headline (which presumably is just some editor for the press release), this is still an immense project!

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

At least there are pre (post?) prints...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Odd choice for a headline (and on a 1 April...)?! A quick skim of the papers shows that with only a few exceptions most replication areas achieved >50% (a low bar..)? That said, the reproducibility findings are pretty damning, and point to reporting problems and nontransparent materials...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Perhaps of interest, we tried this and wrote up our experience. TLDR. it takes a lot of work to code a bespoke agent that can realistically pass scrutiny, but it is possible (at scale, without access to data for refinement.. less likely) bsky.app/profile/rich...

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Screenshot of a manuscript title page. Title: “An AI agent can complete the Attention Network Test with human-like behavioral signatures: Implications for the bot-or-not debate.” Authors: Richard Huskey, Ziyu Zhao, Douglas A. Parry, and Jacob T. Fisher, with university affiliations listed below. The abstract says an autonomous AI agent completed the Attention Network Test in real time and produced mostly human-like behavioral data. Across seven code revisions, the bot achieved attention network scores within published human norms, 95.8% accuracy, and reaction-time patterns showing positive skew and trial-to-trial autocorrelation. Compared with 796 human participants, the bot fell within the human range on several measures but showed elevated autocorrelation and a bimodal reaction-time distribution due to intermittent detection failures. The paper argues this makes simple bot-vs-human detection harder in online reaction-time studies.

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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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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Many of Matt's comments about the order of magnitude, regulation and responsibility resonate with what I wrote here in this recent preprint about attention, agency, alignment and distributed responsibility in digital environments doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Super interesting presentation on smartphone habits, automatic behavior, user perceptions, logged smartphone use, measurement gaps, and responsibility by Matt Sharpe at the @oii.ox.ac.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmDx...

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Do You Think Before You Open Your Phone?

YouTube video by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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.

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Adam Hunt @realadamhunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Hard to know given the wide range of what "ban" actually meant here...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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.

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