I’m happy to report that a new article written by Daniela V. Negraia, Sophie Lohmann, @ezagheni.bsky.social, and me is now available in Social Indicators Research: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We use historical time use data to examine growth in solitary leisure in the U.S. since 1965.

Unmarried and Increasingly Alone: Solitary Leisure Among Unmarried, Solo Dwelling Americans, 1965 to 2018 - Social Indicators Research

Social Indicators Research - Remaining unmarried and living alone are becoming more common in Western countries, including the U.S. Prior research has focused on the social lives of these...

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Over the past two decades, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly use features linked to clickbait. This shift is widespread across outlets of all political leanings and journalistic quality. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of online news headlines - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The evolution of online news headlines

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"Pro-AfD posts dominated the partisan content we were shown from accounts we didn't follow on TikTok and X" jumpshare.com/s/tqzgE7gQ2Q...

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Great piece and if the WSJ op ed page is willing to run it, maybe the dam is breaking a bit on the unscientific moral panic over teens and smartphones. @candiceodgers.bsky.social @mimbs.bsky.social

Dr Lucy Foulkes@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have just been sent a shareable link so this article can be accessed for free: www.wsj.com/health/welln...

New today: Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued. w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...

Census website? :(

Long Doan, @lsayer.bsky.social, and I have a new paper comparing the time use patterns of MTurk and Prolific respondents, and we show how they both differ from contemporaneous data collected by the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Young in their teens and 20s, especially men, are spending more time alone than in previous generations. They ""now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past." Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2305...

Good Thursday Morning to Everyone! Im super excited to share this fresh out article "Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures" with @gaylekaufman.bsky.social Open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

Having just jumped ship from Twitter/X, perhaps now is a good time to repost my thoughts on social media transparency (which Bluesky does right) and disinformation: thehill.com/opinion/tech... #disinformation

There’s less social media transparency and, likely, more disinformation

Recent declines in transparency may blind researchers and the public to the impact of other changes in the social media ecosystem altering how disinformation is being spread, including the continui…

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