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Stephen Schueller

@stephenschueller.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology and Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Clinical psychologist, mental health services researcher, implementation scientist, Lakers fan and Swiftie. Follow me for my views on digital mental health!

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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📢 We're hiring! UC Irvine Psychology @ucisocialecology.bsky.social seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor working at the intersection of psychology, quantitative, computational, and data science approaches. Please share! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10334
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Assistant Professor, Psychology – Quantitative, Computational, and Data Science
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Congrats to the multidisciplinary UC Irvine team - that includes psychology & informatics Professor Stephen Schueller - awarded a $706K National Institutes of Health grant to research & develop an intelligent chatbot for online support groups treating tobacco addiction. ow.ly/nsTI50ZcvLU
UC Irvine Professor of psychology and informatics Stephen Schueller.
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I’m not sure I know what indefatigable means, but this is a great paper and if you’re interested in social media and youth mental health you should read www.frontiersin.org/journals/dev...
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Frontiers | We don't know how social media bans will affect youth but we're doing it anyway!
Around the world, governments are banning youth from social media. Proponents of bans claim that banning or restricting social media access is necessary to c...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Let's go!!! I've been rolling a Shou-lad activate deck lately
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sharing info. re: @ucisocialecology.bsky.social, Department of Psychology's Demystifying Clinical Psychology event on Saturday, May 9 from 8:30am-4:30pm PT. Learn more about Clinical Psych PhD programs, both in-person and virtual attendance. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Super excited to be at @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 to talk AI and mental health and how to think about responsible innovation
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Starting off strong with a great welcome from our conference program co-chairs, Katie & Desmond, an informative update from our president, Rachael Jack, and rounding out with an amazing set of talks from Julie, Nick, & Stephen about their work with AI to support mental health!
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Deadline approaching - applications due THIS Friday! 🚨 Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250? Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Really cool paper!
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks for sharing! I teach research methods for our graduate students and it's always great to see how other people are thinking about this. Really appreciate the insights
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year! Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wtf-this-i... #YouthMentalHealth #DigitalWellbeing #SocialMediaResearch #InfluencerCulture #MentalHealthCommunication #ChildAndAdolescentMentalHealth #OnlineSafety #MentalHealthPolicy #MentalHealthProfessionals #PublicMentalHealth Pls share with your networks 🙏🏽
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"WTF, this is so dangerous!" Social media influencers & youth mental health
Join our event and hear youth-led insights on what good and bad mental health communication looks like online.
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)
The candidate will be expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized research program, provide effective instruction at the...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
You can see Tim's presentation here: osf.io/zvp8k/files/...
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OSF
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Emphasizing in the presentation that this is a pilot! With some limitations of being a pilot - only open to a few specific areas of research, researcher's must meet eligibility, 6-month maximum timeframe for data collection, and certain Instagram data can be requested
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Last presentation! Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science presenting on the Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-Being Research: www.cos.io/meta
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Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research
This pilot program aims to share certain Instagram data with independent academic researchers to use in conjunction with their own study data on social or emotional health.
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In her newly NIMH-funded work @xiaoransun.bsky.social is using the Princeton-SMART platform (formerly Screenlake): www.screenlake.com/princeton-sm... reporter.nih.gov/search/efG37...
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Princeton-Screenlake Mobile Analytics & Recording Tool
Open-source repo for social scientists and public health researchers to collect and analyze passive longitudinal screenshots from mobile panels for weeks or months.
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Getting the IRB for this study was hard - 11 months and 8 rounds of revisions raising issues such as the necessity of collecting such data, consent/assent procedures, potential of explicit images from children's smartphones, and safety protocols if content is concerning
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is the PI of the Adolescent and Family Screenomics Study, a study of 163 adolescents and 107 parents who contributed 6 months of screenomic data (screenshots every 5 seconds). It resulted in ~50 million screenshots with ~38 million screenshots coming from adolescents
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is a real expert in this space and has done work looking at comparisons between self-report and objectively collected data, demonstrating the benefits of considering data donation paradigms: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Agreement between self-reported and objectively measured smartphone use among adolescents and adults
Almost everything we think we know about the prevalence, correlates, risks, and benefits of smartphone use is based on individuals’ self-reported esti…
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Next up! @xiaoransun.bsky.social talks to us about some of the nuts and bolts of data donation and ethics covering aspects like IRB, consent, privacy protections, and data storage
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Super interesting work by Merve Cerit on using LLMs to understand digital life of individuals through multi-dimensional data: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Media Content Atlas: A Pipeline to Explore and Investigate Multidimensional Media Space using Multimodal LLMs | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computin...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
More info about the Screenomic project here: stanfordscreenomics.github.io
stanfordscreenomics.github.io
Stanford Screenomics
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Nilam Ram talks about the human screenome project, collecting smartphone screenshots every 5 seconds. They've collected around 4 centuries of data at this point 😮
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Nilam also gives a shout out to work by Doug Perry and Roland Path to provide a primer on using log data: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
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Extracting Meaningful Measures of Smartphone Usage from Android Event Log Data: A Methodological Primer | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
As smartphones become increasingly integral to daily life, their importance for understanding human behavior will only continue to grow. Recognizing the potential of objective data on smartphone usage...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Nilam Ram notes different ways to think about digital trace data - APIs, data donation, and tracking. Highlighted in this paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking
In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social m...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Next presentation Nilam Ram! Presenting on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing super-intensive longitudinal data
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
One aspect of participant's needs are educating them about how this data might be used
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Love how @munmun10.bsky.social emphasizes that the CANDOR platform has different user types - study coordinators and participants
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
They also have used a browser-based user agent to pull videos and other multimedia content from public social media spaces to link with user data
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Their team saves data as Parquet files which is a post-processed output format that can be easily read and scanned across participants. Can improve deserialization times and are modular and easy to share compared to a database
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
You can learn more about @munmun10.bsky.social 's CANDOR platform here: vorcha.cc.gatech.edu
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Data Contribution Portal
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@munmun10.bsky.social notes the challenges of understanding relationships we're interested in due to the skew of research towards publicly accessible data which limits the ecologically validity of data
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Next presentation - @munmun10.bsky.social presenting on CANDOR - a platform they've built to support observational and causal analysis specifically focused on understanding the relationships between social media and mental health
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dr. Christina Haag talks about the logistical challenges of doing data donation analysis Emphasizing that the difficulty in analyzing this data is often not a technical challenge, but a conceptual challenge
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Valerie Yap shares insights around ethical concerns with doing data donation work with young people. They have a comprehensive consent process that includes a plain language information sheet, video demonstration, Q&A opportunities And also be prepared for a long IRB review and back and forth
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Valerie Yap discusses some ways to build trust through clear communication in data donation work with young people: -Lead with validation, respecting adolescent's expertise on their digital life -Frame data donation as a solution to platform gatekeeping -Build agency and reciprocity
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Valerie Yap indicates it's not just about data security it's also about communication and transparency
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Valerie Yap discusses sentiments from their work that young people realize that companies are already collecting their data and have a willingness to share for research to help achieve positive outcomes - but want to make sure there's trust, credibility, and accountability in the use
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Valerie Yap provides three main takeaways of data collection in data donation - 1) co-design is essential, 2) build trust through clear communication, and 3) address ethical concerns
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@orbenamy.bsky.social emphasizes the pre-data collection work, including centering the voice of youth through advisory panels. They did two panels focused on getting feedback on research questions, as well as feedback on study process, materials, and logistical barriers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@orbenamy.bsky.social talks about the potential for data donation in two new large cohort studies - the adolescent health study - a study of 100,000 young people over the next 10 years and a new birth cohort study
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Next up! The AMAZING @orbenamy.bsky.social along with Valerie Yap and Christina Haag "Personal takeaways on data donation with adolescents"
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Their protocol uses a secure dropbox to collect the data. Participants request their data through the platforms and then provide it to the research team through their protocols.
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dr. Park discusses some unique considerations for data collection of data donation - such as what data are you interested in (all data vs. specific data), how to get metadata (as it often has structural changes) and what file formats you're using (like JSON vs. HTML), their group preferences JSON
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Yeonsoo Park walks us through the steps of requesting data from various platforms Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Snapchat, and TikTok
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dr. Liu with some great examples of demonstrating to young people HOW they de-identify data with clear examples to mitigate any potential concerns about data sharing
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dr. Liu makes the point that presenting the purpose of data collection to young people is critical, but also need to make sure you're presenting the data collection not as you would to grant reviewers, but in a way that makes sense to young people
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
First up we have Richard Liu and Yeonsoon Park presenting on their work with social media data collection with teenagers (12-17 years old)
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Stephen Schueller @stephenschueller.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I'll also note, the webinar is being recorded, so if you're interested in anything of the talks they'll be available later
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