Sonja Utz

Es ist soooo frustrierend

Looking forward to this conference - will share our experience with the cross-lab longitudinal study on AI use (German) comai.space/wenn-maschin...

PhD position in my lab! I'm looking for a candidate with a background in media psychology or communication science. Candidates who bridge our two research lines (social media use and HMC) are especially welcome. Please share! #DGPS2026 #ECC2026 iwm-tuebingen.de/de/karriere/...

I did not get directly contacted by an AI agent, but I receive emails from people offerting sending me one-pagers with their LLM experiences (suggested by the LLMs) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...

Reminder - if you have some work on LLMs and users' mental models, submit it to our special issue. Deadline October 15; early submissions welcome! #HMC

Also auf der Strecke Nürtingen- Tübingen machen sie ab nächster Woche erstmal den schlechtesten SEV ever (27 Minuten normal). Und dabei fährt seit Wochen nur einmal die Stunde ein Zug...

very attractive positions for early career researchers in ML! Plase share!

Check out this call for a special issue I'm co-editing with Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Nicole Krämer, and Vera Schmitt: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

1) #ICA2026 Young Scholars Lunch in Cape Town! 🌍 Calling all members of the #MediaPsych division (DGPs) and #MiRezFo (DGPuK)—and anyone interested in our field! Join us for a casual Young Scholars Lunch at ICA. 🧵

Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...

Das Deutschlandticket kostet die Bundesregierung 1,5 Milliarden Euro für das ganze Jahr. Der ineffektive Tankrabatt soll für nur 2 Monate 1,6 Milliarden Euro kosten. (Wenn es wie 2022 läuft, kostet er am Ende 3,2 Milliarden Euro pro Quartal.)

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗴𝘁𝗲, 𝘄𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 Ü𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗲𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴 … 𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🤔 Neue Studie von Fabian Erhardt, Olaf Kramer, Annette Leßmöllmannn @annetteless.bsky.social (RHET AI) sowie Helen Fischer, Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de & Noemie Holzschuh (@iwmtue.bsky.social) untersucht, was im Alltag als #Wissen gilt.

🚀 New publication! Can people tell if a science post is from a scientist or a layperson? Not always - platform design (fast scrolling, hidden profiles) makes it difficult. Across 2 experiments, @sonja-utz.de and I show how users confuse the two. Full paper 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED!!! NOW!!!

Schön, wenn einem zweimal am Tag ein ICE vor der Nase wegfährt. So komme ich nie an

New paper co-authored with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and @lpummerer.bsky.social out: We used five waves of longitudinal data to untangle how health vs. economic fears relate between- and within-subjects to quality vs. alternative media use www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Go work with Kou! Autocorrect kept trying to replace his name with "Joy", which is pretty appropriate because he's a joy to work with and a fantastic mentor to his students!

Nico presenting the results from our egocentric biases meet biased algorithms-project at the transformativ conference in Heilbronn @everydaymedialab.bsky.social

Das Internet droht im synthetischen Müll zu versinken. Wikipedia, YouTube, LinkedIn: Überall ist künstlicher Content, auch bekannt als ‘AI Slop’. Wie gefährlich ist das für unsere Wissensinfrastruktur? 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/wir-versinke... #Wisskomm @aiforensics.org @kurzgesagt.org

The new call for CSC fellowships is open - if you're a Chinese student who wants to work on health influencers on social media, check out my project #08: uni-tuebingen.de/internationa...

Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io

Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.

„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren" Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden. Aber auch richtig ist: „AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“ Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

Nice surprise in the board meeting ;-) #mediapsych25

Great talk by @anneo.bsky.social about the eras of social media #mediapsych25

@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25

#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks

In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)

Skimming social media posts can help you build ambient awareness about who-knows-what in your network. This can even happen under cognitive load: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @everydaymedialab.bsky.social (so between all my complaints about trains, there might be something useful ;-))

Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch später und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiß schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin

Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.

Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy

What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

Ich habe die in diesem “Politico”-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie übrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur über die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch überraschend. Nur für die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.

Die Strecke Tübingen-Nürtingen kann man echt nicht mehr pendeln. Seit Mai 20 Minuten die normale Verspätung, Ausfälle, keine zutreffende Info. Heute schon wieder (mindestens, steh ja noch) ne Stunde verloren. SWEG ja leider nicht auf bluesky #Bahn #failure

Excited to join the workshop "Beyond Commands: The Evolving Relationship between Humans and Voice-Enabled AI" at the beautiful castle in Tübingen today!

To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD

I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...

The doctoral consortium is starting - looking forward to discussing the projects! #ica25 @icamobile.bsky.social #ica_cat

Ich würde eigentlich erwarten, dass die Führungsspitzen von Viessmann, Vaillant und Buderus langsam mal laut und deutlich sagen, dass hier gerade die akute Gefahr besteht, dass die Fossilnostalgiker in diesem Land die nächste deutsche Branche an den Rand des Abgrunds geleiten.

Also der Zug nach Tübingen ist schon ne halbe Stunde zu spät (beim daheim losfahren nur 13 Minuten) und als Ausgleich für die frustrierten Fahrgäste fährt er jetzt nur bis Reutlingen. So wird das nur war mir der #bahn

Did I already mention that I have a lovely team? @everydaymedialab.bsky.social back from 2 months lab visit in Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social (Homero Gil de Zuniga)

Zweiter Tag diese Woche ohne gemütliches Frühstück und ausreichend Kaffee, weil der 7:57 nicht fährt...

Did you know that #Skype will be shut down today? Here's an interview with our lab member Carolin, who's investigating how you can still keep in touch ✉️ with your #long-distance friends👭: www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...

Important because many studies on #algorithmicfairness only use one general fairness item or adapt measures from procedural fairness without considering issues like #groupdiscrimination. Our multidimensional measure addresses this problem; you can also use just one subscale depending on your RQ

Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

that was fun! Inspiring discussions about interesting talks today in #Salamanca Credibility of AI, Conversion Stories in Political Advertising and how Science gets attacked in Latin America in times of disinformation and populism

Still remember the first MediaPsych in Duisburg 2009 - I'm getting old ;-)