We cordially invite you to join the #CHMSeminarSeries Center for Humans & Machines about Rethinking How We Study Digital Technologies and Their Impact on Teen Mental Health with Amy Orben Amy Orben from Cambridge University 📅25 June 2:30 PM CET Max Planck Institute for Human Development or online 👉mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/38383/1…

Great work led by Luisa Fassi from the Amy Orben team - systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of social media on adolescent mental health jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Excited to share our systematic review and meta-analysis is out in JAMA Pediatrics! We synthesize, quantify, and compare evidence on the relationship between social media use and internalizing mental health in adolescent clinical and community samples. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Amongst all the old myths of 'jobs for life' (and free port), I dont think enough people realise how tough it is on the lower rungs of an academic career. Which is why I support a fixed retirement age at Cambridge -- so the old make way for the young theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Enjoy working with complex data (longitudinal, behavioural, intensive) to answer research questions that will have real impact? The digitalmentalhealth.group is recruiting a postdoc for 2 years (extension possible) at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge starting 2024/25 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47338/

I am excited to start my research group "Computational Social Science" at the Center Synergy of Systems (synosys.github.io) with Dirk Brockmann and the Center for Interdisci­plinary Digital Sciences at TU Dresden, beginning this fall! I will be hiring, job ads below👇

🚨Reminder! My team is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate or Senior Research Associate (same pay grade as an Assistant Professor), with a broad remit to work on quantitative research questions about social media use and adolescence 📊 Closing date: 19 August

MORE HIRING in my team 🚨 1 year Research Assistant / Associate (closing 11.8.): jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47632/ 2 year (Senior) Research Associate (closing 19.8.): jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47338/ PhD positions to start in October 2025 (closing 3.12.): orben.group/phd-study

“Rather than prohibiting and punishing young people, the pressure needs to be placed on the platforms themselves to ensure that these spaces are safe for young people,” Students say social media literacy key to safety, not age restrictions connectedlearning.news/student-social… #MediaLiteracy

APPLICATIONS OPEN: Improving Research Community Builder Award £200-800 (+£150 prize money) to support UK-based Pre-PhDs/PhDs/Postdocs hosting local university events focused on improving research practices and culture 1st Deadline: 10/09/24 orben.group/improving-rese…

Excited by applying computational models built for tightly-controlled experiments to raw social media behavioural data? Research Assistant/ Associate role in my team applying reinforcement learning models to large-scale social media data closes SUNDAY jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47632/

What's the right age for kids to get smartphones? My new piece in Scientific American covers the latest research, plus tips for parents who are thinking about taking the plunge!

Only one reason gets me to BBC broadcasting house at 7am on a Monday morning. Interview with Ian Russell on BBC Radio 4 Today in the next few min