I did it! I am now a tenured professor! Turns out I do belong after all! So grateful for everybody who supported me and pushed me all these years—from a small-town boy in post communist Bulgaria to a tenured professor @ Georgetown. Yabadabadoooo! Wow! Phew!
7/ Compliance, as you can imagine was far from perfect, so a more accurate summary of the findings is that reducing phone use for unnecessary stuff is good for you. You don't have to completely throw away the baby with the bathwater.
6/ 🧠 Takeaway: Causal evidence suggests that constant mobile internet access may be harming cognitive function & well-being. A digital detox could help! #Mindfulness
5/ 🏃♂️ Why did this work? Without mobile internet, people:
✅ Spent more time socializing in person 👫
✅ Exercised more 💪
✅ Spent more time in nature 🌿
4. Key Findings:
✅ Improved mental health
✅ Higher subjective well-being
✅ Better attention span (objectively measured)
✅ 91% of participants improved in at least one area! #AttentionSpan #Focus
3/ To find out, we ran a 1-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) where participants blocked mobile internet (but kept calls & texts) for 2 weeks.
2/ While smartphones help us stay connected, research suggests constant internet access may hurt cognitive function & well-being. But is this really true?
1/ Check out our newest paper in PNAS-Nexus: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being #DigitalDetox #MentalHealth https://buff.ly/3X6vojS
NIH to cut indirect cost rate to 15%.
Рецепта за по-добър живот: Среща с българина, който е „професор по щастие” https://buff.ly/3Eo9stW
Here is the list of #federalgrants that are on the cutting board even after the “pause”: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
fascinating. never would have thought such a minor change would have such a huge effect bsky.app/profile/flor...
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
-How fields and norms co-evolve, such as 'transitional justice'.
-How to theorize stupidity in IR.
Exciting Postdoc at Georgetown! Explore creativity & education using computational methods. 🧠💡 Dive into innovative research & contribute to groundbreaking projects. Start in 2024. Apply now: cng.georgetown.edu/people/join-... #Research #PostdocJobs
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Super proud of my graduate student,Kibum Moon, for his innovative ideas and methods on #AI #chatgpt and creativity at #spsp2024!
If you’re still at SPS2024, we’d love to see you at the repliCATS workshop at 1pm. Please bring a laptop!
Here is my take on the age-old question whether money buys happiness on CBC Radio One! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Wondering how to maximize the benefits of technology without interfering with the wonder of face-to-face conversations at #SPSP2024 This blogpost explains: How social technology is influencing human connection and loneliness open.substack.com/pub/psychoft...
Rates of anxiety and depression are slightly higher for PhD students (5.1%) than those who left graduate school after their Masters (4.2%)--and this gap grows larger over years of the PhD.
But it is still lower than other 20-39 year olds (6.1%) and the general population. jtag.se/pub/workingp...
Constantly striving to be the best doesn’t make you the top performer.
A meta-analysis of 25,000 people found no relationship between performance & perfectionism.
Instead, perfectionism is related to greater anxiety & depression. When we overdo it, we harm ourselves. www.wsj.com/health/welln...
On the frequency of diverse friend groups. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Beautiful
Hmm. Who knew!
Looking for a postdoc or visiting prof position? Reed is hiring! I did my undergrad at Reed, and loved it - heck I named my dog after the place! 😅
Review starts 2/2: apply.interfolio.com/139565
I feel like I would be in that one!
What is your communication style as a mentor/mentee? #academicchatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social
I highly recommend the Raising a Resilient Scientist (RRS) series by #NIH: A five-part series including lectures and discussion groups for mentors in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences.
www.training.nih.gov/raising-a-re...
Going to #SPSP2024? Come to the GASP Mentorship Luncheon on Friday, February 9, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM PST. Sign up here: signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB... GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology. GASP events are open to all students, faculty, and other professionals.
