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Earth-shattering symposium today! 🌎 Earthquake caught on camera, right in the middle of our #precisionhealth talk #earthquake #njearthquake #earthquakenyc

We had an amazing Mental Health & Tech symposium on Friday! Thank you all for coming and special thanks to our speakers Ine Beyens, Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈, Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social, Uri Hasson Hasson Lab, @adelegoldberg1, Manoj Kumar @[email protected], Jacob Shapiro and Olga Troyanskaya #PrecisionHealth #MentalHealth

📚Discover the ASCoR 25 book! Chapter 14: 'Person-Specific Media Effects' by Patti Valkenburg, Ine Beyens, Nadia Bij de Vaate, @lhcjanssenand Amber van der Wal✨See link and description in the comments👇

Next Tuesday, April 16, at 4 p.m., Teun Siebers will defend his dissertation on the sizeable effects of smartphones and social media on distraction, task delay, and sleep. The press release of UvA Amsterdam (in Dutch) can be found here: uva.nl/content/nieuws…

Onderzoek van @Teun_Siebers bevestigt: jongeren ervaren meer afleiding en slechtere slaap door overmatig gebruik van social media en games op smartphones. Met 82% van hen die zich sneller afgeleid voelen en 77% meer afleiding bij gefragmenteerd gebruik. go.uva.nl/43ZpJOI

What a defense! 🎓 Congratulations, Dr. Teun Siebers! 🥂🍾 During his defense, Teun Siebers convincingly argued that social media has a universally strong effect on distraction, but person-specific effects on sleep quality 💤. Read more 👇👇 pure.uva.nl/ws/files/16659…

🎤 Join me at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center on April 30, Noon PT, to discuss the impact of social media on youth mental health and explore insights from "The Anxious Child." You can Attend in person or online via Zoom. 🔗 Details & registration: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/april-3…

Today (4/30) at 3:00 PM ET from Cyber Policy Center : Screen Struggles and Screen Delight: Is Social Media Sabotaging or Saving Adolescent Mental health? Patti Valkenburg cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/april-3…

New pub alert! In this paper, Amber van der Wal, Patti Valkenburg, and Irene I. van Driel took a qualitative approach to study how teens use social media and how it affects them. Their findings have important implications for future quantitative studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢📜'' In their own words'' Amber van der Wal, Patti Valkenburg, and Irene I. van Driel Employed a qualitative methodology to explore social media usage among teenagers and its impacts on them. 👉doi.org/10.1177/205630…

Check out Patti Valkenburg's talk on 'Screen Struggles and Screen Delight' discussing the effects of social media on youth mental health, delivered at Stanford University 👇

Dr.Teun Siebers presenting our problems with setting up our TikTok data donation study at the #datadonationsymposium2024

How do smartphones and social media impact today’s youth? Find out as our colleague Teun Siebers shares the findings of our 3-week ESM study in this video!

Studying social media effects and want to go beyond the average? 💡Our latest paper in Meta-Psychology provides experience-based recommendations for those wanting to investigate the heterogeneity of social media effects: doi.org/10.15626/MP.20… Patti Valkenburg Ine Beyens @LoesKeijsers

🎉 JOCAM turns 18! We invite you to reflect on how children’s media scholarship has evolved. Submit your 200-word proposals by August 16, 2024, for a special issue celebrating this milestone. Share your "coming of age" insights! All details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1U9zbpT…

📢Our new Project AWeSome study shows that social media’s impact on three important dimensions of mental health – well-being, self-esteem, & close friendships – is predominantly negative for 60% of adolescents. However, effects varied between platforms. See: osf.io/preprints/psya…

We’re in Ljubljana! @AmbervanderWal kicked things off with a presentation on the differences in the uses and effects of social media among adolescents. Want to read more? Check out the article Social Media+Society edu.nl/e4dxb #ecrea2024

After being sleep-deprived himself (due to the great ecrea_eu party), Teun Siebers presented his research on the impact of adolescents’ daytime, pre-bedtime, and post-bedtime smartphone use on their sleep quality. You can find the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…