Dr Liam Challenor

@drliam.bsky.social

Cyberpsychology Lecturer and researcher at IADT, Workplace Wellbeing Consultant, outside of work general tech geek 🤓, holidays, hiking and dogs! He/him 🏳️‍🌈

New meta-analysis of experiments of social media use reduction finds no evidence that reducing social media use improves mental wellness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I've only taken a quick look thus far but this replicates my own meta-analysis from last year. Always nice to see.

The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

nature.com

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 2y ago

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋 📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API 🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions 🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗 huggingface.co/datasets/blu...

Hello Bluesky! It feels like the old Community needs might be met here. I think that’s a positive move, I know I’ve felt the gap caused by the shift on other platforms and now by “you know who”. Looking forward to (re)creating new connections!