iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

the full survey report and a policy statement can be found here: actionuni.ch/news-and-act...

SWiMS (Swiss-Wide Mental Health Survey) 2024 | actionuni

Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Short term: No cuts to education funding, as proposed by the federal council. Medium term: More low-threshold, professional support services for mental health and for those with poor supervision. Long term: Flatter hierarchies that limit power abuse and more permanent positions after the PhD.

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I was interviewed by Swiss public radio (SRF) about our new survey on #mentalhealth in #academia. We (@actionuni.bsky.social) surveyed over 2,500 researchers across Switzerland. Around 1 in 4 report depressive symptoms or feeling burned out. What should change? see 🧵 Read the SRF report 👇

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Ausgebrannt und depressiv: psychische Probleme bei Forschenden

Laut einer neuen Erhebung haben viele Forschende depressive Symptome. Noch mehr fühlen sich regelmässig ausgebrannt.

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Using #qualitative methods, we found key barriers to intervention engagement: time constraints ⏳ and unavailable support providers 🤷—important challenges for future #digitalhealth interventions, #JITAIs, and #EMIs.

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We also showed that our just-in-time adaptive intervention #JITAI, designed to help people with depressive symptoms activate their social support networks, was feasible and moderately acceptable in daily life.

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🤔 Should #digital #interventions really be delivered when people feel most distressed? No! In our study, we found that triggering based on self-reported need was rated as more helpful and timely than triggering based on emotion dynamics! 👉 Paper out in #JMIR Mental Health: doi.org/10.2196/74103

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Heading home from #ehps2025 — health psychology at its best in my second academic home, Groningen 🇳🇱! It was great to meet old friends and get to know new people and their work! I presented our study on when to ideally deliver digital health interventions in daily life 👉 mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e74103

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Yes, indeed! Our preprint is out! 🙌 We compared different #JITAI triggering strategies and found that those based on self-reported support need were rated better than those based on #emotion (dynamics)! More on this and the feasibility of our social support JITAI 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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actionuni @actionuni.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🚨 URGENT: Swiss research and education faces unprecedented budget threats. Today, actionuni and 12 mid-level academic staff associations across Switzerland released a joint statement opposing the drastic federal budget cuts threatening our institutions. 1/7

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

➡️ Main Takeaway: Most people may not experience negative effects from smartphone or social media use, but those already vulnerable to loneliness are at greater risk ❗ 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... \w Aurelio Fernández,@mariestadel.bsky.social,Martien Kas,Anna Langener

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

📱 Individuals who generally experience higher loneliness are more negatively affected by their smartphone use—specifically, social media engagement. #Loneliness #WellBeing #SocialMedia #SmartphoneUse #MentalHealth

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🔍 Key Finding: While smartphone use showed no significant association with affect indicators and only a weak bidirectional link with loneliness, the effect varied based on individual loneliness levels.

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

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actionuni @actionuni.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Hi everyone! We are starting up a new bsky account for actionuni, the organisation representing mid-level academic staff in Switzerland. Follow us for our updates!

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Evelien Snippe @eveliensnippe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m excited to share that @psypost.bsky.social featured our recent study on the timing of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral improvements during treatment for depression. Co-authored with: @mahelmich.bsky.social @timonelmer.bsky.social @arnoutcsmit.bsky.social Wolfgang Lutz & Eva Ceulemans

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A PhD position AND a postdoc position in Statistics and Data Science with the great Mirka Henninger in Basel! 🤩https://psychologie.unibas.ch/en/fakultaet/abteilungen/statistics-and-data-science/

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Statistics and Data Science | Faculty of Psychology | University of Basel

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Timon Elmer @timonelmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

nice study 🙌! we also did a similar experiment a while ago too -- but not looking at personality change, but rather differences in friendship network evolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfdw... www.nature.com/articles/s41... ...

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Social Network Dynamics of Students

YouTube video by Social Networks Lab

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