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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another great article published from our lab on Gaming Disorder and Mental Health in the brain. Fun fact: All of these amazing MNL alumni are starting their tenure track professor positions this Fall!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are beyond proud of and happy for @fhopp.bsky.social for this utmost prestigious honor. www.diejungeakademie.de/en (JA) is a special place. Only 10 of the best junior scientist from Germany are selected each year for 5 years (i.e. 50 total). MNL represented at JA, yeah! :). Way to go, Freddy!
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*Die Junge Akademie* is the first academy for outstanding young academics. It facilitates interdisciplinary and socially relevant creative spaces for outstanding early career researchers and artists f...
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How does the brain orchestrate flow states? Two new publications in the journal NeuroImage, one in our upcoming special issue on the Neural Correlates of Risks and Benefits of Media Use (#1), and one in the regular issue (#2) dive into flow experiences using a complexity science lens ...
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our undergraduate research assistant, Justus Swan, will present our newest research on AI delusion today from 10:30–11:30 AM (Zoom link below). He’ll be presenting alongside Dr. Norah Dunbar and Dr. Casey Randazzo, representing AI research in communication.
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
That’s a wrap! We’re so impressed by the incredible research showcased at #SANS2026. Huge thanks to the SANS organizers, presenters, and to everyone who made the conversations along the way so meaningful. See you at #SANS2027
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Last day of #SANS2026! Today, @rachaelkee.bsky.social will present her poster introducing Inoxity. It’s an open source iOS app that allows for high-throughput collection of EMA and bio-behavioral data. What can you do with high-throughput data? Check her preprint! doi.org/10.33767/osf...
Research poster by Kee, Madgula, and Huskey introducing Inoxity, an open-source iOS platform for high-throughput data collection. Inoxity integrates passive sleep tracking, Apple Screen Time capture, and EMA surveys to study sleep–media dynamics in real-world settings. An N=1 proof-of-concept shows strong agreement with Apple Health sleep stage data.
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Rachael Kee @rachaelkee.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Can’t wait to see some of you at my poster today! #SANS2026
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Congratulations to @elisabaek.bsky.social, #SANS2026 early career award winner!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Get your media neuro dose at #SANS26! We will have a poster session everyday at SANS presenting on both topics of morality and media addiction. See our poster details below 👇👇👇
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today, Dr. Weber was recognized for his pioneering work using naturalistic paradigms in fMRI research. We’re proud to see the Media Neuroscience Lab’s work honored through his recognition as a SANS Founding Fellow. #SANS2026
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We’re conducting a research study on faculty workplace experiences in #HigherEd 🎓 This study explores: work demands, departmental climate, & workplace bullying 🎯 If you’re currently a faculty member, we’d really value your perspective tinyurl.com/2fp8f8tv #AcademicSky #AcademicLife #EduSky
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Check out this article on MNL PI Dr. René Weber’s election as a SANS Fellow and his journey pioneering media neuroscience science.ucsb.edu/news/rene-we...
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What an amazing honor to have, Dr. René Weber, PI of the Media Neuroscience Lab, receive the distinctive honor of being elected into the inaugural class of SANS Fellows @sansmeeting.bsky.social
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
🎮 New on Channel 3 (ABC KEYT) this Wednesday at 6pm PST: A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
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Computational Communication Research @computationalcommunication.org · 19/11/2025
📢 CCR needs a new Editor in Chief! 📢 @vanatteveldt.com is rotating out so we are inviting (self)nominations to lead our journal through its next phase. Deadline 15 January, see link for details: journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
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CCR Editor in Chief - call for nominations | Computational Communication Research
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thank you to everyone in the Communication & Social Cognition division who joined us for Alison Oliver's talk, “A Pupillometric Evaluation of Moral Judgments.” We really appreciated the great discussion! #nca2025 #commsky
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Media MOSAIC Lab @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨 #COMMSky Spotlight Alert! 🚨 @nibasaleem.bsky.social is featured in the November 2025 edition of the #ICA (@icahdq.bsky.social) Newsletter! 🌟 Check out the member spotlight at the 🔗 below. We’re proud to see our PI's research focus and mentorship aspirations highlighted on the global stage! 🌎
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Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Excited to present our project “Character Profiles: Broadening Theoretical Conceptualizations of Character Schemas” at #NCA2025! This work examines character and person perception processes of distinct character types (e.g., pirates, cowboys, mad scientists). Thurs Nov 20 - 2:30PM - Maple 05
A presentation title slide with the heading “Character Profiles: Broadening Theoretical Conceptualizations of Character Schemas” in large red text. Below, in black text, it reads “Matthew Grizzard, Scarlet and Gray Associate Professor.” Two columns list collaborators: Lucy Brown, Rebecca Frazer (with a small University of Florida UF logo), Charles K. Monge (with a small Texas Tech University double-T logo), and Sebastian Lubert on the left; Violet Musser, Samantha Flanagan, and C. Joseph Francemone on the right. At the bottom left is The Ohio State University logo with the university name.
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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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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🎮 New study: Teen gaming addiction may stem more from pre-existing mental health issues (like anxiety & depression) than from video games themselves. It is not just about the joystick, but it’s about what’s going on in the mind. 🧠 Read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022004/... #commsky #psychsci #gaming
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Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues
A new study out of UCSB's Media Neuroscience Lab indicates that gaming disorder (AKA video game addiction) likely develops from a player's preexisting mental health conditions.
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“Why is my teen addicted to video games?” Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder! Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder. Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠 #commsky #psychsci #gaming
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Very excited to share our latest article on Psychopathology and Gaming Disorder in Adolescents published in JAMA Network Open (ja.ma/4o9EM1N).
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Psychopathology and Gaming Disorder in Adolescents
This cohort study uses data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study to examine directional longitudinal associations between psychopathology and gaming disorder among adolescents.
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Did you meet the media neuroscience lab at #ica25 ? @b-wheeler.bsky.social @musamalik.bsky.social @kyliewoodman.bsky.social Drop a like or comment who you met and we will give you a follow! P.S. All three of these brilliant researchers are going on the job market this year!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🎉 Congratulations to former lab member Dr. Sungbin Youk on winning a Top Paper award at @icacsab.bsky.social! His research used multifaceted analytic approaches to explore how brain activity can help us understand and predict donation behaviors in response to Singapore PSA videos #ica25
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Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) @internetobservatory.org.au · 15/06/2025
Doing or planning digital platform research? We want to hear from you. Take our 5–8 min survey to help shape tools, infrastructure & training for researchers. 🔗 tiny.cc/aio-survey #AIO2025survey
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Digital Platform Research - Tools and Data Survey 2025
Digital platform research requires access to data from a range of platforms, in a variety of formats and using many methods and analytical tools and approaches. This survey aims to gather information…
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🎉 Congratulations to @fhopp.bsky.social on winning @icacsab.bsky.social’s Rising Star Award! Dr. Hopp, PI of the Moral Computing Lab at ZPID and former MNL member, continues to shape the field through rigorous and high-quality science. We’re so proud!
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International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
ICYMI: 🏆 Congratulations to the winners of Saturday's #ICA25 posters! 🏆 Yoo Joo Lee (Washington State U) won the Top Poster award, and Brittany Wheeler (U of California, Santa Barbara) received the Top Student Poster award!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We hope you had the opportunity to swing by and see @b-wheeler.bsky.social 's TOP STUDENT POSTER! If you didn't get to see it check out the poster below ⬇️⬇️
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Swing by @b-wheeler.bsky.social poster session at 1:30 to snag one of our exclusive MNL 3D printed brain keychain. 🧠 She is also on the job market this year 👀👀 #ica25
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Brittany Wheeler @b-wheeler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Excited to present at #ICA25 Today! 🗓 1:30pm | Poster #70 | Centennial Foyer (Regency) “Is Academic Online Bullying a Widespread Phenomenon? A Study of Scholarly Discourse on Twitter/X” If you're attending, stop by to discuss our findings...and pick up a fun brain keychain while you're there! 🧠
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
One final presentation to go at #ICA25! @b-wheeler.bsky.social will be sharing our emerging research on online hate and bullying!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We’re always amazed at the impact you can make in just 3 minutes. Thank you to CSAB for hosting an incredible showcase of groundbreaking work. All the presenters inspired us. A special shoutout to @musamalik.bsky.social for his standout paper on global morality! #ica25
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who joined @musamalik.bsky.social’s presentation this morning! 🌟 Grateful for such an engaged audience! #ica25
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Truly, is there anything @musamalik.bsky.social can’t do? If you haven’t had the chance to hear Musa share his research, you’re in for a treat. Catch him tomorrow at #ica25 , first at 9am in the Aspen Ballroom, then again at 12pm in the Mt. Blue Sky room. (He is also on the job market this year 👀)
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses. #hackica25 #ica25
Jacob leading a GitHub breakout session Kylie leading an fMRI analysis breakout session
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We can't wait to kick off #ica25 in Denver! What are your most recommended talks? #commsky We will try to attend as many as we can!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finally, it is published 😀 open access: The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
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The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform
What is the prevalence of moral themes in textual corpora? Most previous moral mining research has been informed by Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). Here, we develop and evaluate an alternative mora...
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Dr. Huskey is always making us proud as a MNL alum. Congratulations on another successful #CommHorizons2025 So many amazing scholars and presentations. We look forward to next year!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social did a phenomenal job of representing our lab's research on media and well-being at #CommHorizons2025
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Already looking forward to next year #SANS2026
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Come to sunny San Diego, April 14-20, 2026, for #SANS2026!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If you have questions about media addictions, @kyliewoodman.bsky.social is our in-house expert. See her present 2 posters at #SANS2025: examining the neural mediator between psychopathology and Gaming Disorder, and another on gender differences in the neural development of general media addictions.
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Kanu @kanupandey.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social from @medianeuro.bsky.social holding down the court at @sansmeeting.bsky.social 🎉
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Last day of #SANS2025! Come check out our poster on the neural markers of media addiction in adolescents, using data from the ABCD study. Presented during the poster session at 1:50 PM by PhD candidate @kyliewoodman.bsky.social!
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Maureen Ritchey @maureenritchey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
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Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Incredibly thoughtful research coming out of the CCSL lab, featuring innovative affective clustering of news headlines, drift diffusion modeling, and fMRI news valence contrasts. @richardhuskey.bsky.social always knows how to captivate an audience. #SANS2025
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
MNL alum @richardhuskey.bsky.social delivered a great Blitz talk on new media selection and the representation of negative news headline bias. Check out his poster tonight at #SANS2025!
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My neural plasticity was in overdrive while listening to Dr. Beatrice Luna present her lab’s extensive research on adolescent 'Critical Period Plasticity.' Using techniques such as fMRI and magnetic spectroscopy, her work supports the Driven Dual Systems Model. #SANS2025
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just attended the Best Practices in Methods session at #SANS2025 so many practical takeaways! From Dr. Clelland and Dr. Cosme's push for SCA (links below), to Dr. Chen’s approach to voxel activation reporting, and Dr. Burns guidance on motion exclusion for hyperscanning—super useful insights!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Comic Sans (c) at #SANS2025! Our own unique stand up comedy show!
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