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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

6 years

Large quantities of data = High quality of science. My new Nature Human Behaviour paper published today with @ShuhBillSkee shows that this could not be further from the truth. (1/10)

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6 years

Confused about all the headlines today? Here is my short list of why it is currently impossible to stay anything conclusive about screen time and youth mental health:

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10 months

Delighted to have been appointed Fellow and Director of Studies for Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at @stjohnscam @Cambridge_Uni . I've just started this month and am very much looking forward to getting to know the college and students over the years ahead 📚 👩‍🎓 🗞

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2 years

JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 The link between social media and well-being varies across adolescence (10-21 yrs), with possible windows of sensitivity emerging depending on sex. Now out in @NatureComms ; paper here:

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2 years

Perfect meme summarising social media research from @FassiLuisa

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1 year

🚨 New @Nature commentary by myself and @sjblakemore is out now! We argue that research needs to consider adolescent development if it wants to better understand the link between social media and mental health. 1/4

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4 years

Reminder about the "social media is harming girls" headlines making the rounds today. Classic case of a study that would have merited academic peer review before a major press release ... there is so much better academic work out there (a thread in 5 bullet points):

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1 year

Beyond delighted to have been awarded the MRC Early Career Impact Prize alongside @SFatumo Thank you to @The_MRC @Cambridge_Uni @MRCCBU

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

The problem: Quasi-scientists make 💸💸💸 promoting claims about scary digital media effects Scientists doing actual research make ❌❌❌ to correct the non-stop onslaught of these claims

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3 years

When is a psychological finding practically relevant to the real world? When its effect size is larger than a certain cutoff? When it scales over many people? When we are repeatedly exposed to it? Short answer: it’s way more complicated than that...

Not all effects are indispensable: Psychological science requires verifiable lines of reasoning for...

Psychological researchers currently lack guidance for how to make claims about and evaluate the practical relevance and significance of observed effect sizes, i.e. whether a finding will have impact...

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3 years

The 🐈‍⬛ is out of the 🎒!

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

@mrccbu

3 years

On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Orben ( @OrbenAmy ) has been appointed as a Programme Leader Track Scientist at @mrccbu . She will commence her role on 1 Nov 2021.

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6 years

Short answer: A huge impact! Running over 20,000 analyses on 3 different datasets we found that scientists could have written 1000s of papers finding positive, negative and non-significant associations between well-being and digital tech - it all depends on the analysis (7/10)

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3 years

I'll be keynote-ing at the @BPSOfficial Annual Conference next week, talking about "Rethinking Psychology in the Digital Age" 🤳exciting!

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6 years

The paper powerfully visualises that without pre-registering analysis plans beforehand, analytical bias can allow researchers to tell almost any story with powerful data resources. Is this really what science is supposed to be like? (10/10)

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@OrbenAmy

2 years

Things I really enjoy about reviewing: Reading other reviewer comments on a paper I reviewed. I learn a lot about what I missed and what others find commendable/problematic.

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

Excited and humbled to have won the inaugural @BritishNeuro Credibility Prize (Individual Researcher) alongside such great academics! Thank you to the BNA for acknowledging & supporting the work done across the discipline to make findings more robust 🌟

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

3 years

Omicron vs. people with international flights booked home for the holidays

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Amy Orben

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5 months

When I joined @mrccbu I hoped to find a way to use approaches from cognitive neuroscience to understand how digital environments impact mental health. The first paper which perfectly exemplifies this vision is now published in @TrendsCognSci !

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Amy Orben

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6 years

6. We consistently find that less exciting things like eating right, spending time with family, exercising and sleep show much higher correlations with well-being than technology use. Maybe its time to give those the air time they deserve.

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3 years

I'm so excited to be part of the CERES network recently awarded $11 million to improve digital technologies and #EdTech for children. Part of the generous funding from the @Foundation_JF will allow me to expand my research group at the @mrccbu :

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

6 years

Read more about the thoughts behind the paper here:

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Delighted to have been awarded an @ESRC @enurturenetwork grant to trial a new digital parenting measure with @riskyadpathways , Rachel Goldberg and NGO partners @TheParentsZone @VShotbolt @cliffmanning (1/2)

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Striking for PhD students, post docs and colleagues on short term contracts for fair & equal pay, contracts, workloads and pensions! @CambridgeUCU @ucu #OneOfUsAllOfUs

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2 years

Our "trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction" paper ( @rogierK , @DeliaFuhrmann , @rlucas11 ) is published today in Royal Society Open Science. Includes pre-registered longitudinal analyses and some rather pretty figures ... if I can say so myself!

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@OrbenAmy

8 months

Beyond excited to be taking on a new role as Associate Editor at Psychological Science, working alongside the brilliant @siminevazire and an exceptional team

simine vazire

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8 months

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start handling manuscripts on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out here: We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

1 year

WTF @thetimes - this study does not exist! Where does this come from?!

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Reading today that rents are 17% higher on average than 2 years ago. Have heard locally that students need to bid to get a rented room/house. This + energy costs will be devastating for many PhD students. If we care about diversity in academia UKRI needs to respond to this soon.

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

JOB KLAXON 🚨🚨 My group () is recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the @mrccbu @cambridge_uni , with possibility of extension, to work on the intersection between digital tech/social media, cognition, teen development and mental health:

Digital Mental Health Group

www.orben.group

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

I'll be recruiting a postdoc soon in the area of cognitive science, social media use and adolescent mental health ⬇️🤔⬇️ What are your top tips & tricks for writing good/attractive/inclusive job ads?

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@OrbenAmy

6 years

Average correlation between technology use and depressive symptoms = 0.019; Average correlation between listening to music and depressive symptoms = 0.237

It's Time For a Serious Talk About the Science of Tech "Addiction"

If the food you eat changes your health, so does your technological diet. Here's what researchers of digital health need to learn from the study of nutrition.

www.wired.com

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@OrbenAmy

2 years

We cannot say we care about Equality and Diversity without showing we care about the massive erosion in Pay and Pensions happening right in front of our eyes. We’ve asked nicely, but @Cambridge_Uni didnt listen. Now we take a stand. @CambridgeUCU @ucu #ucuRISING

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

Thermals on, thermos filled, early train boarded. See you on the pickets. Would rather be working today, but like many other academics at the start of their careers I am set to loose just under 50% of my defined benefit pension under current proposals. I cannot let that stand.

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2 months

After largely avoiding the media this year, it was a pleasure to talk to the ZEIT for this extended profile on my work. Glad it doesn’t shy away from the nuances and difficulties of my research area. For the German followers:

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@OrbenAmy

2 years

JOB! 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻 My group () is looking for someone who loves analysing large datasets to join us for a 3-year postdoc at the @mrccbu @cambridge_uni , investigating digital tech/social media, teen development & mental health:

Digital Mental Health Group

www.orben.group

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

22 days

Enjoy working with complex data (longitudinal, behavioural, intensive) to answer research questions that will have real impact? The is recruiting a postdoc for 2 years (extension possible) at @mrccbu Cambridge starting 2024/25

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@OrbenAmy

7 years

With a new Twenge #iGen paper out today, I have taken a closer look at whether social media use and teen depression/suicide are actually linked:

Social Media and Suicide: A Critical Appraisal

Great claims require great evidence. This evidence does not exist for linking social media to suicide.

medium.com

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

3 years

I’m going to reflect on what I have learned putting together my 16-hr graduate course “Robust Behavioural Science”: E.g., why we should start moving away from the “open science sales pitch” to teaching/fostering more critical thinking about research culture and methods

British Neuroscience Association

@BritishNeuro

3 years

Join us for our #BNA2021 special session with the Credibility Prize winners on Tuesday - including winner of the Individual Researcher prize, @OrbenAmy . You can check out this and all our Credibility in Neuroscience activities at the Festival here:

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Amy Orben

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8 months

It was a pleasure to give evidence to the House of Commons Education Select Committee this morning - video now online

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

Who should I follow (on or off Twitter) if I want to learn more about initiatives to make qualitative research more open and/or reproducible?

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

10 months

Congratulations to the brilliant @SakSGhai passing her PhD viva yesterday with flying colours! Great thesis on diversity & technology. Proud supervisor moment ☀️💪 @oiioxford is very lucky to have her, and myself, my team & the @mrccbu is sad to see her go!

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

6 years

“As a researcher, I live in seemingly opposing worlds. On the one hand we are having a huge public debate about technology’s negative effects, on the other hand there is very little evidence to back it up” @BBCWomansHour

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@OrbenAmy

2 years

Thank you to @The_MRC for recognising efforts in improving scientific quality and culture worthy of a finalist spot in for the MRC Impact Prize (early-career researcher category) 🙏 Excited for the ceremony!

Medical Research Council

@The_MRC

2 years

@DrNShenker @imperialcollege @heartsmilkbank @milk_foundation @SFatumo @MRC_Uganda @LSHTM Dr Amy Orben @OrbenAmy , Programme Leader Track Scientist, @mrccbu at @Cambridge_Uni , for her innovative contributions to open science, championing early-career researchers, and improving scientific quality and culture both nationally and internationally.

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

3 years

🚨 Exciting new preprint, led by @tom_metherell , using longitudinal data to demonstrate that digital exclusion (not having access to a 💻) predicted worse adolescent mental health during COVID-19 lockdowns last year.

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Standing today with @Cambridge_Uni college supervisors demanding a) being paid minimum wage, b) being paid for mandatory training, c) being given workers rights. Why does this leading university build its signature service to students on exploitation? #UCURising @CambridgeUCU

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

Lovely birthday celebrations with my research group & colleagues today, organised by lab member extraordinaire @SakSGhai 🍰🍰 also got a paper rejected for the 4th time, but that is a worry for another day!

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

7 years

Interesting new paper out showing that we often believe others' social lives are more active than ours. Very related to current debates about FOMO and social media.

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@OrbenAmy

3 years

@ProfAnneLaura I recently almost gave a 1-hour long talk to a big tech company’s research team whilst called “Gründør the Dwarf”, as I had forgotten to change it from the previous night’s virtual D&D session. Host did not tell me when they let me in, and I only realised during the intro

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Me trying to explain yesterday’s #Researchfish Twitter saga to my non-academic partner over breakfast

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

4 years

Am I the only one finding it difficult to know what to tweet about during a global crisis/pandemic/meltdown?

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

3 years

🚨Preprint Update🚨 The work now includes a new preregistered dataset: it confirms our finding of a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence. >99% of 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 adolescents are estimated to experience a decline between 10-24y.

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@OrbenAmy

3 months

I'm excited & honoured to be running for the @PsychScience Board of Directors (thanks to @siminevazire & @BrianNosek for the nomination!). Voting opens tomorrow 📆 You can find more information (+ some videos 🤓) about my priorities here:

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

2 years

Want to do research on social media use, mental health and cognition in an environment valuing real-world impact? I will be recruiting PhD students (start date Oct 2023) later this year as part of the @mrccbu recruitment cycle, for more information see:

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Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

6 years

7. As I said 🔽 "Finding good evidence is more than just a quick internet search away ... one piece of high quality evidence might be worth 500 pieces of low quality evidence that populate the search output" -

Three problems with the debate around screen time

The cycle of moral panic around screen time and technology use feels endless. Here are three issues we need to address before we can move the debate on

www.theguardian.com

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