iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you believe in love at first cite?

Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Important #ICA27 update for colleagues planning to submit: you can now be designated as presenter on up to THREE submissions 🎊

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Shinyi Kang @shinyikang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi! After a year+ of Bluesky dormancy, I’m making my first post. I’ll be aperiodically sharing thoughts and reposting things I find interesting, especially around digital creativity, AI, and well-being. First up: a piece published yesterday on how we think and talk about 'AI slop'

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‘AI slop’ hides the conversations we should be having - npj Artificial Intelligence

The term “AI slop” hides conversations we need to have. When we call something “AI slop,” we’re often doing more than complaining about one output. Optimists use the term to quarantine failures away f...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A big thank you to @ikmz.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate in this female leadership course! Initiatives like this are much needed to equip and empower early-career women with strategies to strengthen leadership. Also a great opportunity to connect with peers across the department 💪

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dear folks, I’m happy to share the updated version of our preprint on self-defeating motivations in selective exposure and their implications for media effects and well-being, co-authored with @tobiasdienlin.com and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick: 🗞️ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And that’s a wrap on our second retreat! The city of Bern treated us very well. We explored the city, enjoyed a movie night (Bicentennial man 🔥), visited the museum of communication, and exchanged ideas. We even spotted the Berner bear! (1/2)

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Team retreat with the best in Bern 🥳

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In academia we don't say "I'm no expert, but..." we say "This paper is the first to study" and I think that's beautif

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Spent the day in Bern at a workshop organised by the Swiss Young Academy on innovative teaching tools. I joined as a speaker to share a teaching format I developed where students created digital health content for an Instagram profile Always inspiring to exchange ideas on creative ways of teaching✨📚

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🎉 We were very happy to host @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for a guest talk on digital behaviourism, a fascinating approach grounded in operant conditioning that can help explain digital behaviour beyond aggregate measures of screen time. 📖 You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#ICA26 highlight ✨ Presented my scoping review of mental health content creators in the session I chaired: “Mental Health Discourse on Social Media: Creators, Content and Effects”. Great panel, great discussion with @danilkowa.bsky.social and Yueliang, grateful to everyone who joined!

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Saturday morning @ #ica26: human-chatbot relationship formation, presenting our latest preprint "AI-RP: The AI Relationship Process Framework" –Sat 6/06, 10:30–11:45 am –Auditorium 2 (CTICC1, Lev 2) Slides: osf.io/8bujv/files/... Interested? Please come with questions––feedback very welcome! 🤩

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Landed in Cape Town and excited to present in the next days at ICA @icahdq.bsky.social a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media: “From Wounded Healers to Marketed Caregivers”. 📍 Fri, June 5, 3:00–4:15 PM CTICC1, Level 2 📖 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #ICA2026

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New preprint out! 🎉 “From Wounded Healers to Commercialized Caregivers”: a scoping review of mental health content creators on social media. We reviewed 59 empirical studies on mental health content creators across platforms. Main findings below 🧵 Feedback very welcome! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 06/05/2026

Really cool: have already received 5 people who are interested. Sometimes I’m wondering whether bsky has sufficient outreach — so that’s really cool. Often you don’t need to reach many but the right people 🤍

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I highly recommend this book! ((so much so that I even wrote a review of it. You can read it here: www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/article/view/9772 ))

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 29/04/2026

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy to have received the @sgkm.bsky.social Dissertation Prize 2026 for my thesis “Not All Those Who Navigate Are Lost: Self-Determined Patients Facing Mental Health Misinformation in Online Communities for Mental Health Symptoms” funded by @snf-fns.ch and defended at @usi.ch 🎉 hit me up for a copy

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Seminar lecturer here 👋 Quick tip 💁‍♀️ I recommend sending students a pre-course survey to assess their theoretical and methodological background before the seminar begins. Two key advantages (see thread) 🧵👇

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Happy to share that my book review of Prof. @acerbialberto.com "Tecnopanico" is now published in Studies in Communication Sciences @sgkm.bsky.social 🎉

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To help our @ikmz.bsky.social students write their master thesis, we developed a guide with tips and tricks. If you're interested, you can download it here👇 drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/... Feel free to reuse it or provide feedback!

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I need to say this so very, very loudly: 👏 null 👏results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 no 👏 results 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 are 👏 not 👏 unfortunate 👏 👏 null 👏 results 👏 are 👏 not 👏 errors 👏 👏 null 👏 findings 👏 do 👏 not 👏 need 👏 to 👏 be 👏 "fixed 👏 with 👏 "more data" 👏 We really need to sort this, y'all.

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The reviews went out from our biggest conference in my field #ica26 Partial (AI) reviews are now a real problem. As a community we need to address this and work on standards. No one deserves AI slop as reviews.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happy to be part of this initiative as an Editor, together with @philippesloksnath.bsky.social and other scholars. Stay tuned: we’re working on new ways to further increase the reach of this valuable tool. Thanks @shkessler.bsky.social for involving me!

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Media Psychology & Methods @mepsyme.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Media Psychology & Methods Team wishes you a good end to 2025! The year was special for us: We started as a team, had our first retreat, conferences, teaching, and christmas party (together with the sci comm team). Off to new adventures! (But until then: Winter break ❄️☕️🦦)

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hit 100 citations on Google Scholar today, yay! 🥳 Somewhere out there, a hundred people found my work useful… or at least cite-able. Thank you my friends 🫂

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

@mepsyme.bsky.social is finally on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated on research in media effects, wellbeing, HCI, AI and persuasion, online misinformation, and digital creativity!

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Life can now finally continue (only a communication scholar can understand). Jokes aside - in the following order - keep hydrated, eat your veggies, and peer-review! 💧🥦📝 @icahdq.bsky.social

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

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Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

@tobiasdienlin.com spoke today at the @ikmz.bsky.social PostDoc Club about his journey to becoming a professor. My take-home message? Balance is key: be strategic, but don’t overdo it: people notice. And just be yourself (but… not too much and not always 😄).

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Good news straight from my IG feed: "When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018." ⁠(sciencemagazine) Original article: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 24/11/2025

Top three reasons given why female scholars are less likely to share their research online: - Considered less effective - Less time to do so - Considered more harmful Data from Agnes Horvat, n > 3.000.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

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International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Discover ways to actively participate in #ICA26 beyond submitting your work — from volunteering opportunities to networking events, there’s a role for everyone! 🔗

link.icahdq.org

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UZH Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) @ikmz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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UZH: Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation

An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation zu besetzen. Die künftige Stelleninhab...

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 29/10/2025

Looking forward to @fassiluisa.bsky.social‘s talk at our department next week :)

Social Media Use and
Adolescents’ Mental Health:
What do we actually know?
Guest Talk
Media Psychology & Methods Division
Monday, 03 November 2025
14.00 – 15.00, AND-3-23

Luisa Fassi is a Graduate
Student with the Medical
Research Council Cognition
and Brain Sciences Unit at
University of Cambridge, UK
Biography
Luisa Fassi is a PhD researcher at the
University of Cambridge, working across
the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences
Unit and the Department of Psychiatry.
Her doctoral research, which was recently
recognised by the Psychology of
Technology Dissertation Award, focuses
on studying the relationship between
social media use and adolescents' mental
health.
Abstract
Mental health conditions affect one in
seven adolescents globally, and social
media has become a central part of young
people’s daily lives. These parallel trends
have sparked widespread concern, yet
research linking social media use to youth
mental health remains mixed and often
lacks clinical relevance. In this lecture, I
present findings from two complementary
studies that aim to bridge this gap and
inform both clinical and societal
responses. The first is a pre-registered
systematic review and meta-analysis that
synthesizes 15 years of research on the
relationship between social media use and
internalising symptoms (e.g., depression,
anxiety) in both community and clinical
samples. The second study is a registered
report that analyses a nationally
representative UK sample to examine
differences in social media use among
adolescents with and without mental
health conditions. Unlike most studies that
rely on single-questionnaire assessments,
this study integrates clinical diagnoses
made by professional raters based on
multi-informant interviews. Together,
these findings highlight the need for more
targeted psychoeducation, clinical
assessments, and interventions that reflect
adolescents’ diverse lived experiences
when it comes to social media use.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

What are a lecturer (me 🤙) and her @ikmz.bsky.social students doing on Instagram during class time 😮? 📱👩‍🏫🧑‍🎓 Science dissemination! and learning communication theory by doing it. Follow us on Insta (@healthteory1o1) and discover how we turn abstract theory 💬 into real-world impact💡

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What’s a media psychologist doing at a psychedelics conference? 💊🧘‍♀️ I was at ALPS to present a research agenda on psychedelic-assisted therapy and social media and it was FUN. First things I did: meditated and listened to music coming from shrooms 🍄 Had plenty of insights (interdisciplinarity!!)

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Getting rid of academic journals in favor of capturing ongoing comments and suggestions from experts would make the world a better place.

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I will never forget…Yesterday at our team meeting I got applauded for publishing my first ever preprint 🎉 Things escalated quickly and now they wanna use a cowbell every time we do an open access achievement 🐄🔔 Link to (IMHO) a fresh perspective on media effects on well-being osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And here I am, for the first time in the @ikmz.bsky.social newsletter ✅ "Influencers & Digital Health" has just started and I already feel it’s a blessing ✨... not only for the students (I hope!) but also for me. It’s amazing how smoothly the healthcomm theories can be explained through TikToks 🎥

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 20/09/2025

New code review response just dropped:

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Nicole Bizzotto @nicolebizzotto.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

…first retreat of IKMZ Division MediaPsych & Methods is a wrap! 🎉 (also my first academic retreat ever)

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Given the gravity of the topic, we're doubling down at @natureportfolio.nature.com on fighting misinformation with a special collection on health misinformation I'm (co)-editing. Please share and submit your work! Open for submissions. www.nature.com/collections/...

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