Allison Eden

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely?

What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media?

In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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a video game screen shows a man playing a game with a score of 1003/105 Alt: a video game screen shows a man playing a game with a score of 1003/105

I’m basic and like the original starters but when pressed i like Dracovish.

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Why Rage Bait Works and How Curiosity Can Help Us Stop Doomscrolling To provoke outrage is the point of rage bait. Research in communication is starting to explain how rage bait hacks the way our brains decide what we choose to read, watch and even click and swipe onli...

The worse content makes us feel, the more likely we are to keep consuming it.

Our brains prioritize negative and exciting content, especially when we’re in a bad mood.

Curiosity offers a way out by nudging us toward new, more rewarding, choices.

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/rage-bait-cu...

@saramgrady.bsky.social @larawolfers.bsky.social (I dont know if they have bsky accounts but Susanne Baumgartner and Sindy Sumter) @morganellithorpe.bsky.social

OII | Summer Doctoral Programme Researching the internet or technology? This annual programme brings together outstanding doctoral students from across the world for a fortnight of study.

Are you a doctoral student exploring the social dynamics of the internet and digital technologies? Applications are now open for the Oxford Internet Institute's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) 2026!

Learn more and apply: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...

goddamnit, your email found me.

Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern University! Check this out. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉comap@northwestern.edu

Super helpful! Will be using this in my class next semester as our introduction to the topic! <3

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I was going to send you this - Kevin Kryston has a few papers on this type of normative influence, but this one is closest to what you are looking for.

Very excited about this project introducing an integrative character-based network framework predicting success of novels and films. Idea and analysis credit to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, with big thanks for including me, @fhopp.bsky.social @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Anna Wolfe. More info here:

Our university library negotiated some fees, grants paid for others, and having Dutch co-authors helped for some more. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to pub there either.

This is one of my favorite papers, love seeing it appear like magic on my bkuesky feed

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan!

There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement

Out now in Scientific Reports! Despite high correlations, ChatGPT models failed to replicate human moral judgments. We propose tests beyond correlation to compare LLM data and human data.

With @mattgrizz.bsky.social @andyluttrell.bsky.social @chasmonge.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am super excited to see the #CommSky community at NCA 2025!

Stay updated with an NCA feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

You can be featured by simply including these hashtags in your posts: #NCA25 #NCA2025

📣 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_...

🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Excellent job inviting these technologies into our campuses to work closely with vulnerable young people, university administrators and edtech people.

BRAVO.

apnews.com/article/open...

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social!

Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!*

*not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

Great discussion with @saramgrady.bsky.social on the value of studying entertainment!

We say we want uplifting media, but our revealed preferences tell another story. We often pick darker, more intense content. This @npr.org piece covers our lab’s research on why, and includes great advice from @aeden.bsky.social on building intentional media habits.

Thanks Richard!! (I say I want our research covered but wait for my coauthor to post when it happens… let’s not examine those preferences too closely! 😂)