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Tobias Dienlin
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Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Nov 20
Here's a starter pack of scholars in Communication pushing for Open Science 🤍

go.bsky.app/U2af8bT
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bjoernhommel.bsky.social
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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strippel.bsky.social
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Great opportunity!
mepsy.bsky.social DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social · 1d
Boost your writing this winter! ❄️✍️

We’re thrilled to launch our first-ever Winter Writing Workshop, jointly organized by MiRezFo (DGPuK) and Media Psych youth representatives —designed to help junior scholars make progress on their writing projects.

👉 Sign up by Dec.15th: forms.gle/kPBUDZsVfyHh...
MiRezFo x Media Psych Writing Winter School
We are very excited for the first ever joined writing workshop organized by MiRezfo and Media Psych. Program: Day 1 (March 2nd, from 2 PM): Check in & Get together, Input on writing strategies, Mini-...
forms.gle
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
MEPs pass resolution to help parents tackle growing dangers of addictive internet platforms
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Gestern sprach @robert-habeck.de an der UZH.

Die Bedrohung der liberalen Demokratien sieht er in wirtschaftlicher Stagnation, Schwächung des Mittelstands, vorangetrieben durch Globalisierung und Wohlstandsschere. Social Media verstärke politische Extremisierung.
Picture of Robert Habeck at UZH
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
It's simply never too late to quit X www.reuters.com/business/med...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Opening a cluster analysis lecture with a @dingdingpeng.the100.ci post go brrrr
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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aufdroeseler.bsky.social
Now this is a new one: My university's license of SAGE journals allows me to view but not to download the research articles. According to ChatGPT read-access costs 100K€ p.a. If you want to make 100% sure that interested readers can access your article, publish it in a #diamondopenaccess journal.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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jbgruber.bsky.social
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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nicolebizzotto.bsky.social
Good news straight from my IG feed:
"When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018." ⁠(sciencemagazine)
Original article: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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In a recent study, Hikari Abe-Džujka and I found that femvertizing affects purchase intention. While the effect was rather small, in our study femvertizing *increased* purchase intention by 1%.

Read full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Ads to Action: Femvertising’s Impact on Brand Image and Purchase Probability Through Well-Being Dimensions
Femvertising stands for feminism advertising and its goal is to support and empower girls and women through advertisements. Despite its increasing relevance, femvertising is still an underexplored ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Top three reasons given why female scholars are less likely to share their research online:

- Considered less effective
- Less time to do so
- Considered more harmful

Data from Agnes Horvat, n > 3.000.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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lakens.bsky.social
For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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cstross.bsky.social
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Happy to see that preprints can make it into teaching :)
benlyons.bsky.social Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 8d
"A Simple Future for Media Effects Research" by @tobiasdienlin.com @yesuncomm.bsky.social & @lennertcoenen.bsky.social ... will probably be assigning in media effects seminar next time I teach it osf.io/preprints/os...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Glad to see that in the criteria for tenure our department now explicitly includes #openscience. There’s hope!

@ikmz.bsky.social @esserfrank.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ikmzmediachange.bsky.social
📱 The use of digital services is increasing in Switzerland, with instant messaging use rising to 96% in 2025.

📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025

#WIP2025 #Switzerland #Schweiz #AI #internet
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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lakens.bsky.social
New blog by Data Colada on the ResearchBox platform, which has excellent improvements (I love the Zenodo back-up!). I will focus more on the platform in my educational material. And we should be very grateful to everyone who makes data sharing platforms!

datacolada.org/130
[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before - Data Colada
Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including…
datacolada.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.

Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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promiseproject.bsky.social
This week, PROMISE outreach and policy impact coordinator Jen Adams from the Comms Policy Collaborative, attended #MozFest2025 where this year's theme was 'unlearning'. (1/3)
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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fgilardi.bsky.social
Incredibly, the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon is 32 years old, originally published in 1993

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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lennertcoenen.bsky.social
Really important, this. Also slightly depressing.
richardhuskey.bsky.social Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · Jan 2
When it comes to statistical power, how is Communication Science doing? Sun, Shen, Pan, and Quan’s article: “Toward a More Powerful Experimental Communication Science: An Assessment of Two Decades’ Research (2001–2023)” gives an answer. In short, not so good: doi.org/10.1177/0093...
A bar chart displaying the reporting of statistical power analysis by year from 2001 to 2023. The Y-axis shows the percentage of studies per category within each year, ranging from 0% to 75%. The X-axis represents years from 2001 to 2023. The chart is divided into five categories listed on the right: “A Priori,” “Sensitivity,” “Observed,” “Mention Only,” and “No Mention.” A Priori: Reporting is sparse before 2010 but increases steadily after 2017, peaking near 25% in recent years. Sensitivity: Reporting is minimal and sporadic across all years. Observed: Reporting is consistent but moderate, fluctuating around 10–25%. Mention Only: Reporting is infrequent and fluctuates around 5–10%. No Mention: Initially dominant but decreases over time, particularly after 2010. The chart highlights a trend toward increased A Priori power reporting and a decline in studies making no mention of power analysis, indicating evolving research practices over time. Table 2 summarizes the results from power analyses by study design, showing statistical power (median and range) and the percentage of studies at different power levels. The table includes data for four designs: Within-subject (k = 41), Two-group (k = 98), Multi-group (k = 93), and 2 × 2 Factorial (k = 184). The table shows that within-subject designs generally achieve higher statistical power, especially at larger effect sizes, while two-group and multi-group designs often fall below acceptable power levels, particularly for small effects. 2 × 2 factorial designs vary, with reversal effects showing higher power than attenuation effects. Overall, achieving adequate power remains a challenge in many designs, highlighting the need for careful study planning.
January 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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⚡BIG NEWS⚡Excited to be the new Associate Editor for @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. Big shoes to fill, following the fantastic work of @connolly-ahern.bsky.social! Grateful to continue to serve this flagship journal 🙌
jmcquarterly.bsky.social JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 17d
We thank @acadianjprof.bsky.social for his excellent work as Book Reviews Editor and are delighted to welcome him to his new role as Associate Editor. 🎉
His experience and commitment will continue to strengthen the journal!
@profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM