iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Johannes Thrul @drjthrul.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

1/4 🚭 New from our lab in BMC Public Health! We tested 124 digital smoking cessation messages with over 300 young adults who smoke. Acceptance- and distraction-based messages were rated similarly overall, with some but key differences by sociodemographics. doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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Smoking cessation message testing to inform app-based interventions for young adults – an online experiment - BMC Public Health

Background To improve the efficacy of digital smoking cessation interventions for young adults, intervention messages need to be acceptable and appropriate for this population. The current study compa...

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Johannes Thrul @drjthrul.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

4/4 Big thank you to first author Josef Hamoud and all co-authors for an excellent collaboration. @janardan.bsky.social @felixnaughton.bsky.social

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Johannes Thrul @drjthrul.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1/3 Now officially published: Our re-analysis of @cjferguson1111.bsky.social's meta-analysis. Our findings suggest social media reduction or abstinence interventions can have small, but significant mental health benefits. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social @dmh-bsph.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/ppm0...

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:

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Johannes Thrul @drjthrul.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Many folks don’t know alcohol causes cancer. In @medpagetoday.bsky.social, we argue in support of cancer warning labels on alcohol proposed by the US Surgeon General to shift social norms and save lives. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

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Opinion | Alcohol Causes Cancer. We Should Be Drinking Less.

Labels highlighting the risk of cancer can shift behavior

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Tom Carpenter, PhD @tcarpenter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Folks who are doing survey analysis (e.g., poststratification, etc.) in R using {survey}, how are you doing fancy multilevel stuff? there is no svylmer

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Janardan Devkota @janardan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy 🦃 Thanksgiving 🦃 ! Everyone 🇺🇸

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Our article Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers is finally out! Please share with your students, and consider add this on your graduate scope and methods class. Also, we appreciate feedback and talk with students about our ideas!

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Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers | PS: Polit...

Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers

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