Around one year ago X/Twitter made the recommendation algorithm public: did someone was able to do anything with it? After a (light/negative) initial buzz I did not hear anything anymore...

Time to post this again! misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/resear…

Big Macedonian-teens-who-mastered-fake-news 2016 vibe.

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com

If I try Asch’s experiment in class using late students as “participants” will I traumatise them?

'Phones and social media give us choice. I don’t want to go on Facebook, so I don’t. As with all technology, we have to learn to adapt to them properly'
thecritic.co.uk/smartphones-ar…

A very positive development in Europe and I don't think this has been reported much in the media during the last few decades.

The suicide rates among young people declined in many European countries.

'Opinions on Hard-to-Discuss Topics Change More via Cohort Replacement'
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Come do a PhD in Trento! unitn.it/en/ateneo/5830…

Interestingly, Haidt recognises variation in teenagers well-being trends and has now a tentative answer, involving (from here), religion and speed of penetration of phones.
From: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonat…

Serious question: is there research on closing the gender gap in social sciences and humanities education? (I am reading Stoet & Gary, 2018).

As I am reading the classics, it is interesting that in late 90s the idea that religion would be easily wiped out in 'modern' societies was already as a minimum dubious, based on data...
jstor.org/stable/2657288

Can we agree that data are unequivocal about that?