Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability New Review by Amy Orben (@OrbenAmy), Adrian Meier, Tim Dalgleish (Tim Dalgleish) & Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) 🚨FREE🚨 to access until May 21 -- download now! go.nature.com/4dwD71i

✨New from me and my amazing coauthors on audio-as-data🎙️ For both speech-to-text and computational phonology tools, we find that results across tools are generally similar, but some subtle preprocessing differences can materially change the output doi.org/10.17645/mac.7…

The best technology and kids take: Sundials are ruining the Youth. From a Roman adaptation of a Greek play, 3rd century BCE, in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day” via ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social

A new study in PNAS had 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users deactivate their accounts for 6 weers before the 2020 U.S. election. Facebook deactivation reduced votes for Trump by 2.6% (p = .015). In other words, staying on Facebook *increases* support for Trump. I

It's official as of 40 minutes ago: It is my pleasure to serve you as the incoming editor of Psychological Methods. Please stay tuned for exciting details and developments in the coming months! And feel free to reach out at any time ([email protected]). APA Journals

The ability of generative artificial intelligence to create seemingly authentic text, images, audio and video is causing rising concern worldwide go.nature.com/4aJJQSQ

🚨New today in PNASNews ‼️w/ @helenmargetts: In a pre-registered experiment (n=8,587), we find little evidence that 1:1 personalization — aka microtargeting — enhances the persuasive influence of political messages generated by GPT-4.  pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…  1/7 👇🏼

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

My article w/ Doug Parry, “Social media & youth mental health: Simple narratives produce biased interpretations,” is now available free online APA Journals Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology) psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-19… 🧵 1/10

Individuals are seeing big gains from AI. Organizations less so. I wrote about why and how to fix it. oneusefulthing.org/p/ai-in-organi…

Nature research paper: Mapping the ionosphere with millions of phones go.nature.com/40KFDN9

New research by Paolo Gerbaudo argues that TikTok has transformed social media from 'networked' to 'clustered' publics, where algorithmic interest-based grouping replaces friend-based connections fundamentally changing how we experience and interact online doi.org/10.1177/146144…

Please read this masterpiece if you haven't already colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-…

New meta-analysis (2024) finds human-AI collaboration is task-dependent: performance increases for creative & open-ended tasks (like content creation), but performance drops for decision-making tasks; human-AI collaboration seems to work best when humans already outperform AI

We recently added several analyses to our paper on the employment effects of a guaranteed income. 🚨 These new analyses include, for the first time, administrative data on income and employment and results for marriage and divorce, among other outcomes. Read on for results! 1/

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds. What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.

📈Out today in PNASNews!📈 In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages.  🧵:

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