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tobiashbl.bsky.social

@tobiashbl.bsky.social
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working in addiction prevention in Vienna. Clinical psych, community psych, emotions.

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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Late to the party, but am desperate for a season two of the Screen Sense Podcast! Especially in light of the new meta case and every new development regarding a social media ban. Would love to hear more from you guys @peteetchells.bsky.social @shuhbillskee.bsky.social. Really enjoyed it so far!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Guess someone needed some posthoc justification for pushing through age restrictions..
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oh and they have a chapter on bidirectional effects. They define it as „children’s and adolescents‘ interactions with online spaces may cause, but also reinforce existing mental health issues, including depression“. Here I was thinking it’s bad mental health can be cause and effect of SM use
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Negative effects are assumed because there is „substantially more evidence“ for it , than for positive effects. Not better or more conclusive evidence, simply more. Of course no wonder if all that gets funded and done is research into negative effects..
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
First of all social media is defined as „… services that may be available to minors and contain age-inappropriate and/ or risky features“. Foregone conclusion in the opening definition of the subject..
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
God, reading this newish Child Safety Online Report by the EU special panel is making me so angry. How can it be so disingenuous and leading in its argument?
commission.europa.eu
Special panel
Find out how the special panel on child safety online, set up by the European Commission, is helping to keep children safe online.
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And still make it sound like those are fringe position of few, lone individuals..
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
To me the qualitative difference is that we are talking about a whole media. Not the content itself, like in movies. Maybe that’s also where Eikos sense of accepting defeat comes from. For movies we declare certain content as off limits. For social media it’s legislative capitulation, no nuance
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Auch interessant ist Haidts Kommunikation an üblichen wissenschaftlichen Kanälen vorbei. Bücher, GoogleDocs, Blogposts und Tedtalks statt peer-reviewte Artikel. Interessanter Artikel dazu: archive.is/EPrii
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Eher nur eindeutig wenn man selektiv zitiert wie Haidt es gerne tut. Verkauft dann aber gut Bücher. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
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Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🎙️Screen Sense - new podcast with me and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social, is launching next week! Two psychologists (and dads) talking honestly about what it means to raise a family in a screen-filled world - with science, real stories and zero guilt. Launching 13th June. screensensepodcast.substack.com
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/05/2025
We’re back to the “hundreds of psychological studies cannot all be wrong, educate yourself”-stage of discourse. I recommend that onlookers to this discourse pick some of the cited studies & see how compelling they find them, wrt causal identification & strength of statistical evidence.>
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
But their origin does not change that they are underspecified. They allow for many interpretations and no way of knowing what people agreed to. Some positive aspects: increase in mental health, social connectedness, support, coping, exploration of self and interests, access to information
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The use of „can“ in formulating the causal claims makes it quite hard to disagree. Smartphones can impair mental health, but the actual debate is whether they do so more than not. Esp. since the majority of experts actually think effects are context dependent A shame no positive effects are asked..
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Counterpoint: No, there isn't But sure, let's randomly assign incredibly loaded clinical diagnoses onto individuals who may have many valid reasons for not wanting to engage in-person with people, particularly ones who make damning evidence-free judgements of others and share them in a newspaper
There's a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends: addicts Martha Gill 
Ditching hanging out for isolated scrolling on our sofas is a dangerous habit that warrants help on a par with gambling

Guardian article by Martha Gill
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 10/12/2024
New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...
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The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping?
In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks Andy! In @theatlantic.bsky.social I describe why the panic over smartphones is more likely to distract from than solve the problems that young people are facing today. Gift link is below: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens
It may only make things worse.
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tobiashbl.bsky.social @tobiashbl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Incredible! Could also work well for counseling
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Despite the dominant narrative, I really can't stress this enough. Whether we're talking about yourself or your kids: YOU ARE NOT *ADDICTED* TO YOUR PHONE! And we need to stop saying otherwise www.wbur.org/radiobo... 1/14
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A Boston psychiatrist weighs in on the Mass. TikTok lawsuit and digital wellness
The co-founder of Boston Children's Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders, Dr. Michael Tsappis joins Radio Boston to talk about digital wellness.
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