Let's go!!! I've been rolling a Shou-lad activate deck lately

Sharing info. re: @ucisocialecology.bsky.social, Department of Psychology's Demystifying Clinical Psychology event on Saturday, May 9 from 8:30am-4:30pm PT. Learn more about Clinical Psych PhD programs, both in-person and virtual attendance.

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Super excited to be at @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 to talk AI and mental health and how to think about responsible innovation

Starting off strong with a great welcome from our conference program co-chairs, Katie & Desmond, an informative update from our president, Rachael Jack, and rounding out with an amazing set of talks from Julie, Nick, & Stephen about their work with AI to support mental health!

Deadline approaching - applications due THIS Friday! 🚨

Are you an early career research who wants to share your research with a multidisciplinary audience and earn $250?

Apply for the Rising Star Award by this Friday, Jan 30 at 5pm CT.

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Really cool paper!

Thanks for sharing! I teach research methods for our graduate students and it's always great to see how other people are thinking about this. Really appreciate the insights

You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year!
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"WTF, this is so dangerous!" Social media influencers & youth mental health Join our event and hear youth-led insights on what good and bad mental health communication looks like online.

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Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

You can see Tim's presentation here: osf.io/zvp8k/files/...

Emphasizing in the presentation that this is a pilot! With some limitations of being a pilot - only open to a few specific areas of research, researcher's must meet eligibility, 6-month maximum timeframe for data collection, and certain Instagram data can be requested

Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research This pilot program aims to share certain Instagram data with independent academic researchers to use in conjunction with their own study data on social or emotional health.

Last presentation! Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science presenting on the Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-Being Research: www.cos.io/meta

Princeton-Screenlake Mobile Analytics & Recording Tool Open-source repo for social scientists and public health researchers to collect and analyze passive longitudinal screenshots from mobile panels for weeks or months.

In her newly NIMH-funded work @xiaoransun.bsky.social is using the Princeton-SMART platform (formerly Screenlake): www.screenlake.com/princeton-sm...

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Getting the IRB for this study was hard - 11 months and 8 rounds of revisions raising issues such as the necessity of collecting such data, consent/assent procedures, potential of explicit images from children's smartphones, and safety protocols if content is concerning

@xiaoransun.bsky.social is the PI of the Adolescent and Family Screenomics Study, a study of 163 adolescents and 107 parents who contributed 6 months of screenomic data (screenshots every 5 seconds). It resulted in ~50 million screenshots with ~38 million screenshots coming from adolescents

Agreement between self-reported and objectively measured smartphone use among adolescents and adults Almost everything we think we know about the prevalence, correlates, risks, and benefits of smartphone use is based on individuals’ self-reported esti…

@xiaoransun.bsky.social is a real expert in this space and has done work looking at comparisons between self-report and objectively collected data, demonstrating the benefits of considering data donation paradigms: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Next up! @xiaoransun.bsky.social talks to us about some of the nuts and bolts of data donation and ethics covering aspects like IRB, consent, privacy protections, and data storage

Media Content Atlas: A Pipeline to Explore and Investigate Multidimensional Media Space using Multimodal LLMs | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computin...

Super interesting work by Merve Cerit on using LLMs to understand digital life of individuals through multi-dimensional data: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

More info about the Screenomic project here: stanfordscreenomics.github.io

Nilam Ram talks about the human screenome project, collecting smartphone screenshots every 5 seconds. They've collected around 4 centuries of data at this point 😮

Nilam also gives a shout out to work by Doug Perry and Roland Path to provide a primer on using log data: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social m...

Nilam Ram notes different ways to think about digital trace data - APIs, data donation, and tracking. Highlighted in this paper:

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Next presentation Nilam Ram! Presenting on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing super-intensive longitudinal data

One aspect of participant's needs are educating them about how this data might be used

Love how @munmun10.bsky.social emphasizes that the CANDOR platform has different user types - study coordinators and participants

They also have used a browser-based user agent to pull videos and other multimedia content from public social media spaces to link with user data

Their team saves data as Parquet files which is a post-processed output format that can be easily read and scanned across participants. Can improve deserialization times and are modular and easy to share compared to a database

You can learn more about @munmun10.bsky.social 's CANDOR platform here: vorcha.cc.gatech.edu

@munmun10.bsky.social notes the challenges of understanding relationships we're interested in due to the skew of research towards publicly accessible data which limits the ecologically validity of data