Viraler AI-Trend: Warum «Fruit Love Island» polarisiert - SRF News Videos - Play SRF AI-Früchte, die Affären haben – dieser absurde Trend geht gerade auf Tiktok viral. Unter Namen wie «Fruit Love Island» schauen Millionen zu. Doch hinter dem scheinbar lustigen Brain-Rot-Content stecke...

Ist das auf TikTok virale Phänomen #cheatingfruits und #fruitloveisland problematisch? Hier meine Einschätzungen:

www.srf.ch/play/tv/redi...

@mattsharpe.bsky.social and I want to test a cool idea and we are looking for datasets including: (a) Depression, (b) Objectively logged social media time, and (c) Subjectively estimated social media time.

We've found some from @cjsewall9.bsky.social & @dougaparry.bsky.social but want more!

A screenshot of the dashboard of the imagefluency R package.

imagefluency 1.0.0 is out 🎉

An R package to quantify visual fluency in images, built for transparent and reproducible workflows.

If you work with visual data, take a look:
imagefluency.com

Make sure to try the interactive dashboard! Feedback welcome!

Updating my mixed-effects modelling slides... I have opinions...

#statsmeme

The special issue on time in communication research in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social is now out. Proud to be part of it with this article in which we investigate the influence of time frame and time lag and theorize on temporal processes underlying media effects.

Koalition führt Social Media-Verbot bis 14 Jahre ein Keine Klarnamenpflicht, Social Media-Verbot wird mit Lehrplanreform gekoppelt: Weniger Latein im Unterricht, dafür soll es in Schulen mehr Medienkompetenz geben

Austria's administration decided to implement a social media ban until age 14.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case New Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users

„the gen. office will seek additional financial penalties & court-mandated changes to Meta’s platforms that “offer stronger protections for children” s/a moving predators from the platform, & protecting minors from encrypted comm. that shield bad actors” [abbr]

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial A woman has been awarded $3m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.

„When lawyers for Kaley told Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, that her longest single day of use stretched to 16 hours, he denied that it was evidence of an addiction.

Instead, he called a teenager spending most hours of the day on Instagram "problematic".“

www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK teenagers to trial social media bans and digital curfews The government will interview the young people and their parents before and after they try the limits to assess their impact.

Hiring! 🙌 Communications and Operations Coordinator to help share mu team's research and support a fast-moving, high-impact group.
Major rebrand ahead + real chance to build things from scratch in an area where there is high media interest ⬇️.
Closes 14 April. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/communi...

A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research Output in University Research Teams Authors Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3* Affiliations Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu Abstract Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate, and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1 configuration variables on service quality customer service team is controlled withi A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises Authors Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3* Affiliations Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany *Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu Abstract Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

Perhaps my understanding is wrong, but for it not to be a vignette study you would need a cover story / deception where people would indeed indicate if they'd want to try out the product, only to be debriefed afterward.

I don't understand ... why is that not a vignette study? It's a hypothetical scenario?

I actually quite like your vignette study 💕

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Report: A Ban on Mobile Phones in Schools Is Not a Universal Solution Banning mobile phones in schools does not straightforwardly lead to better academic performance of students. An analysis of data from 21 countries, including the Czech Republic, conducted by the IRTIS...

📢 New Report: Why school phone bans aren't a universal fix
👀Analysis of 21 countries shows that bans don't directly improve grades. Impacts on cyberbullying, addiction, and mental health are inconclusive.
📱While distractions may drop, classroom disruptions increase
Full report: muni.cz/go/b17c78

Example screenshot of multilevel descriptive table created with mlstats R package

If you are working with multilevel data, try out my new package mlstats 📦 — an #rstats package for multilevel analyses. You can create publication-ready descriptive tables like the one below (including within- AND between-group correlations + ICCs).

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But indeed, that doesn't really address AB, so I see your point. I still feel the inversion problem is worse, but this is really more of a feeling, might be wrong.

And to be self-critical, the inverted problem might only be more *salient* but not worse. I always see it when checking scales and their CFAs, whereas the AB is more hidden/general. And in line with what @ymeier.bsky.social wrote, I rather then implement other quality filters, s/a attention checks

Thanks for sharing! It seems several things can be true at the same time, and it's rather a question of which problem is worse? In the paper @amengel.bsky.social & @scottclifford.bsky.social well describe the probs with inverted/negative items. So what's worse, low factorial validity or AB?

Slides now available at osf.io/k538v/overview

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At this year’s #MePsy25 conference in Duisburg, I presented a position paper about “small” media effects. While our field lacks objective criteria to decide when such effects are practically relevant, I proposed 5 criteria that can help deciding about relevance. Slides & paper on osf 👉 osf.io/d2ah7/

Great blog post! I’ve had the exact same experience. When I started using CFAs I realized (a) many established scales and (b) almost all inverted/negated items don’t work. Needs to be shared more widely.

Many of Matt's comments about the order of magnitude, regulation and responsibility resonate with what I wrote here in this recent preprint about attention, agency, alignment and distributed responsibility in digital environments
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Do You Think Before You Open Your Phone? YouTube video by Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Super interesting presentation on smartphone habits, automatic behavior, user perceptions, logged smartphone use, measurement gaps, and responsibility by Matt Sharpe at the @oii.ox.ac.uk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmDx...

@mediastudiespress.bsky.social has published an open-access book on sociologist Erving Goffman.

Below is a summary by David Park, which really makes me want to read the book.

Check it out and download for free here: www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-...

In Communication, we don't have many diamond open access journals. One is History of Media Studies, published by @mediastudiespress.bsky.social.

The journal is quite international. It includes book reviews, opinion pieces, & critical perspectives. Will follow more closely!

hms.mediastudies.press

The Initiative Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative, version 2.1 Openness and transparency are core values of science. As a manifestation of those values, a minimum requirement for publication of any scientific…

I remember the widespread pushback when the Peer Reviewer Openness Initiative started in 2017, where we would only review papers that share data and code (or explain why that is not possible) www.opennessinitiative.org/the-initiati...

Now, funders and journals are requiring it.

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