Doug Parry

This week I have already received 10 peer review requests. It is only Tuesday. 😬

This is a great overview of next steps for data/materials sharing after OSF. I'm curious, is there any discussion of moving preprint overlays like @psyarxivbot.bsky.social (not sure of profile... @improvingpsych.org) or @socarxiv.bsky.social off of @cos.io infrastructure? What are the alternatives?

I'm back working after ~3 months off to care for my son. And it looks like its going to be an interesting time for social media regulation in the EU! I wrote something about my thoughts on the leaked proposal regulations for social media in the EU. www.linkedin.com/posts/dougap...

✅ ethics approval for human subjects research ✅ open data and materials required for quantitative research (exemptions apply) ✅ preregistrations for experiments ✅ CFA for reflective factors

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

New website is live, including a new blog post :). I respond to the call by @psychscience.bsky.social asking how we can improve APS conferences. eiko-fried.com/blog/in-pers...

Who knew? The journal "Communication Methods and Measures" does not send papers out for review that have been preprinted? In 2026... Despite @tandfresearch.bsky.social policies to the contrary...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live Biffy Clyro Pelican Russian circles God is an Astronaut The Evpatoria Report The Ocean Black Dahlia Murder The Tallest Man on Earth The Prodigy Slipknot

Well that’s me set for the long weekend… bucket list lineup!

This is a great read. Summarises a lot of recent ideas and conversations. Also reminds me somewhat of @anneo.bsky.social's social media era's presentation at #MediaPsych last year.

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back! Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker Submission deadline: June 5th. → commscifutures.com

The death of writing will not be caused solely by AI; it will also be perpetrated by concerned educators who now perceive academic essays as outdated. In the end, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: If students are solely trained to do oral exams, it is unsurprising if writing skills take a hit

Attention is not a fixed resource that some people “have” and others lack. It is a regulatory system that allocates effort based on expected reward and uncertainty. When outcomes are unclear or delayed, attention naturally destabilises. External structure often works better than pressure.

Another one of life’s joys being automated away..

um... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM I guess that's one way to get training data from scientists. (notwithstanding the fact that this is trying to replace one of the best parts of doing science...)

Following A Perfect Circle's Disillusioned and 1000 Friends by Alien Weaponry, it seems like there's a new entry in the "anti-digital technology" genre with Primal by Soen focusing on mindless scrolling and hollowness.. youtu.be/rlSAhFy9YUw?... youtu.be/BIsH686xWl0?... youtu.be/R-2GKj25lQE?...

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...

For #ICA26 I received many very useful reviews (on both accepted and rejected papers) but I think these two take the cake (on a student led paper). Sure, it’s what we wanted to hear, but…

About 18 months ago I sent this letter, along with a copy of my book, to a number of MPs and peers, including Wes Streeting. I never got a response (which to be fair was my baseline expectation), but it’s still disheartening to see today’s news about Haidt’s invitation to speak to policymakers.

YouTube now offering 4x playback speed... um, what? I quite regularly speed up content but 4x feels excessive. I'm genuinely curious what the experience is (not a premium subscriber) and motivations would be here (both for users and the platform).

Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.

I can only assume that no peer review happened here?! Seems that this was a scheme by the journal to boost IF?

And now We Lost the Sea (performing departure songs in its entirety!) has been added 🤯

This is important for all platform researchers! Please read and sign the OPEN LETTER to the EU Commission and share widely in your networks!

dunk!festival 2026: “Here, have all your favourite bands at once.” 🔥 Russian Circles, Caspian, Pelican, The Evpatoria Report 🔥

🚨 Preprint alert: Do 1) smartphone event log data access and 2) the Experience Sampling Method cause reactivity effects in studies? @dougaparry.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, and I investigated this very question using data from 815 German Android users. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We are looking for folks to help beta test our new mobile apps! This is your chance to do the EMA study you've been dreaming up for free! You can reach out to me on Bluesky or email at adam@inclivio.com if you're interested!

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NEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇

It feels like at this time of year my work consists primarily of cutting text down to meet page, word, or other space limits set by various journals and conferences. cut, cut, cut! ✂️

I didn’t think it would, but it is actually quite a disenfranchising feeling living for the first time in a country where you cannot vote.. so if you can, get out and vote! #tk2025

Two exciting ERC-funded PhD positions on attention and technology use with @matti.vuorre.com I’ll be an (external) part of the supervision team and can highly recommend this department @tilburg-university.bsky.social tiu.nu/22989