Sonja Utz
@sonja-utz.de
media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue | interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance
very attractive positions for early career researchers in ML! Plase share!
ML for Science@ml4science.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
Check out this call for a special issue I'm co-editing with Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Nicole Krämer, and Vera Schmitt: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
Das Deutschlandticket kostet die Bundesregierung 1,5 Milliarden Euro für das ganze Jahr. Der ineffektive Tankrabatt soll für nur 2 Monate 1,6 Milliarden Euro kosten. (Wenn es wie 2022 läuft, kostet er am Ende 3,2 Milliarden Euro pro Quartal.)
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)
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𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗴𝘁𝗲, 𝘄𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 Ü𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴 … 𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🤔 Neue Studie von Fabian Erhardt, Olaf Kramer, Annette Leßmöllmannn @annetteless.bsky.social (RHET AI) sowie Helen Fischer, Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de & Noemie Holzschuh (@iwmtue.bsky.social) untersucht, was im Alltag als #Wissen gilt.
🚀 New publication! Can people tell if a science post is from a scientist or a layperson? Not always - platform design (fast scrolling, hidden profiles) makes it difficult. Across 2 experiments, @sonja-utz.de and I show how users confuse the two. Full paper 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED!!! NOW!!!
Thou Shalt Not Illegally Start Wars
Trump bombed Venezuela last night.
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Schön, wenn einem zweimal am Tag ein ICE vor der Nase wegfährt. So komme ich nie an
New paper co-authored with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and @lpummerer.bsky.social out: We used five waves of longitudinal data to untangle how health vs. economic fears relate between- and within-subjects to quality vs. alternative media use www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Do fears drive media consumption? A longitudinal study on the relationships between different fears and media consumption during COVID-19 in Germany
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-sectional work identified differential relationships between health-related vs. economic fears and the consumption of quality versus alternativ...
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Go work with Kou! Autocorrect kept trying to replace his name with "Joy", which is pretty appropriate because he's a joy to work with and a fantastic mentor to his students!
Kou Murayama@koumurayama.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Nico presenting the results from our egocentric biases meet biased algorithms-project at the transformativ conference in Heilbronn @everydaymedialab.bsky.social
Das Internet droht im synthetischen Müll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: Überall ist künstlicher Content, auch bekannt als ‘AI Slop’. Wie gefährlich ist das für unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-versinke... #Wisskomm @aiforensics.org @kurzgesagt.org
Wir versinken in Schrott
Ein Viertel der meistgeklickten TikTok-Suchergebnisse ist künstlich erzeugt. Oft ohne Kennzeichnung, oft täuschend echt. Welche Orientierung bleibt in dieser neuen Realität? Im August 2025 bemerkte de...
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The new call for CSC fellowships is open - if you're a Chinese student who wants to work on health influencers on social media, check out my project #08: uni-tuebingen.de/internationa...
China Scholarship Council Program
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Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io
LLMs Can Get Brain Rot
New finding: LLMs Can Get Brain Rot if being fed trivial, engaging Twitter/X content.
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Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.
„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren" Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden. Aber auch richtig ist: „AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“ Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.
@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25
#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks
In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)
Skimming social media posts can help you build ambient awareness about who-knows-what in your network. This can even happen under cognitive load: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @everydaymedialab.bsky.social (so between all my complaints about trains, there might be something useful ;-))
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load
Knowing where expertise is in one’s network is essential for knowledge transfer and collaboration. Browsing social media can foster ambient awareness of who-knows-what. Although ambient awareness i...
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Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch später und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiß schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin
Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.
Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy
What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR)
Abstract. Scholars from various disciplines study social media. However, neither researchers nor users have a unified understanding of social media. Even m
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Ich habe die in diesem “Politico”-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie übrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur über die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch überraschend. Nur für die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.
