🚨FINAL WEEK🚨 to submit poster and symposium Abstracts!!! 🚀Deadline August 2nd

Georgia Turner@georgiaturner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🚨 1/ We invite proposals for posters and symposia for the New Directions in Social Media Research conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (7–8 Dec 2026). We especially welcome future-facing research on how the social world is changing in the digital age.

What keeps us posting on social media? [@georgiaturner.bsky.social, Gunschera, Subrahmanya, Salecha, Eichstaedt, Me & @orbenamy.bsky.social] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 🚨 🚀 Register now to attend the New Directions in Social Media Research Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge on 7-8 December 2026! Register here: sites.google.com/view/social-... Hosted by @dmh-group.bsky.social

Georgia Turner@georgiaturner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🚨 1/ We invite proposals for posters and symposia for the New Directions in Social Media Research conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (7–8 Dec 2026). We especially welcome future-facing research on how the social world is changing in the digital age.

🎉 Now published in Nature Communications! 🧠 We develop a novel computational reinforcement learning & habit model of Twitter data, and show that younger people & women are more behaviourally sensitive to 'Likes'. Read the paper: bit.ly/4f1vsKS

Georgia Turner@georgiaturner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New preprint 🚨 **A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media** 🧵 We develop a computational reward learning model of real-world social media data, which infers the separate goal-directed and habitual cognitive processes driving posting...

🎉 Congratulations to @georgiaturner.bsky.social on receiving a 2026 Psychology of Technology Institute Dissertation Award! 🎓🏆 A fantastic and well-deserved recognition of her outstanding PhD research on psychology and technology. 👏✨ www.linkedin.com/posts/digita...

🎉 Congratulations to Georgia Turner on receiving a 2026 Psychology of Technology Institute Dissertation Award! 🎓🏆 The annual awards recognise exceptional doctoral research that advances our… | Digita...

🎉 Congratulations to Georgia Turner on receiving a 2026 Psychology of Technology Institute Dissertation Award! 🎓🏆 The annual awards recognise exceptional doctoral research that advances our understan...

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🚨New preprint🚨 Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile? We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.

Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵

Nature@nature.com · 4mo ago

Nature research paper: Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia go.nature.com/4fbTNyk

🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🚨 1/ We invite proposals for posters and symposia for the New Directions in Social Media Research conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (7–8 Dec 2026). We especially welcome future-facing research on how the social world is changing in the digital age.

New preprint! Led by the talented @bcdavidson.bsky.social 👇

Brandon C Davidson@bcdavidson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨New Preprint Announcement🚨 Social Media Reward Sensitivity and Depressive Symptoms Over Time 🧵 Social media platforms are designed to maximise engagement by amplifying social rewards such as “likes”, and there is widespread concern that these digital designs contribute to mental health declines.

Looking forward to presenting our research on digital technology use and wellbeing at this session today, free to attend if you're in Cambridge! www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/lonel... @promiseproject.bsky.social

🚨New pre-print🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

This weekend, I'm going on a sponsored walk to help raise money for my friend's younger brother's cancer treatment. If able, I'd really appreciate if you could share or sponsor me here: sites.google.com/view/alex-wa...

💡Does anyone have any good go-to introductory readings / materials for network analysis? e.g. introducing definitions of nodes / edges / global and local graph properties, etc? 💭

In the 2020 Election Project, Meta collaborated w/ academics to study how FB impacts elections. ⬇️ @aanixel.bsky.social, @fassiluisa.bsky.social & I argue that such research collaborations, w/ clear conflicts of interest, should be regulated. Would love to hear thoughts!💬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies | PNAS

We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies

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Important work on perceived social media addiction 👇

Ian Axel Anderson@aanixel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉 We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience. It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic. Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif

Looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Cambridge University Behavioural Insights Student Society about the psychology of social media - come along if you're in Cambridge! cubiss.wixsite.com/cubiss/event...

Talk by Dr. Georgia Turner - Understanding Digital Wellbeing: How Psychology and Neuroscience Can Help Us Rethink Social | Cambridge CUBISS

Attend an engaging talk by the Dr Georgia Turner, University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit on her research into digital wellbeing. Followed by an interactive Q&A.

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This is one of the rare papers that completely changed my thinking about the field I work in. Have a read!

Tanay Katiyar@adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My first paper, out in PsychReview!! Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro: Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health? A 🧵

I spoke to The Economist @economist.com about dopamine detoxes - thank you @ainsliejstone.bsky.social for the write-up! www.economist.com/science-and-...

Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?

Taken literally, the idea makes no sense. But it might still be good for you

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as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why? 🧵 We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

Really excited to see this out, led by the brilliant @bcdavidson.bsky.social

Brandon C Davidson@bcdavidson.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media. 🧵 Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited? It turns out, yes!

@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social We wrote a blog reflecting on it: anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...

Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025

by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…

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Looking forward to giving a Contributed Talk at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social tomorrow on this study! Come and say hi if you're at the conference, or watch the livestream here (10am BST / 11am CET) 👉 hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Georgia Turner@georgiaturner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New preprint 🚨 **A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media** 🧵 We develop a computational reward learning model of real-world social media data, which infers the separate goal-directed and habitual cognitive processes driving posting...

Very cool work linking reward learning and social learning 👇

Björn Lindström@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

EP #15 | @lukasgunschera.bsky.social & @georgiaturner.bsky.social recommend

🚨New preprint 🚨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨-𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 Using a novel micro-narrative method, we collected ~ 900 first-person accounts of social media harms from young people across the UK and US.

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

So well deserved 🎉

Luisa Fassi@fassiluisa.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited and grateful to receive the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my PhD thesis! A special thanks to the Institute, the organisers and my wonderful PhD supervisors @orbenamy.bsky.social & @tamsinford.bsky.social. More info: psychoftech.substack.com/p/congratula...