Michal Frackowiak, PhD

We are thrilled to welcome Douglas A. Parry as our new Associate Editor!

Assistant Prof at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he studies digital media's impact on attention, cognition & well-being using innovative methods (e.g., smartphone tracking, ML).

Welcome aboard, Doug! 🎉
@dougaparry.bsky.social

📵📱 CfP — Special Issue:

"Mobile Disconnection"

Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social

📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026

🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

Excellent, thanks for sharing!!

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Please consider submitting to our special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! Check out the call for papers below, with extended abstracts due on 31 July 2026. With Mora Matassi and @trinesy.bsky.social

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journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

We are hiring 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

Would you like to start working at our beautiful institute this coming spring?

#psychology #openscience #metascience

Find out more here: leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ylp9kss4

I've some submission deadlines tomorrow, and I'm actually looking forward to my R scripts and ongoing analyses. I totally get you 😎

I think that this way of thinking should be promoted/implemented at the junior research stage. For instance, by conducting an in-depth systematic review: only once you read properly 50+ articles on your subject will you understand that the devil is in exactly those sections (method+results).

hey #mobilecomm community @icamobile.bsky.social
For a new exhibition on 100 yrs of mobile telephony, the
Communication Museum in Frankfurt am Main prepared a website w many cool historic photos. 🤳 They also discuss a phoneless future 🤫
www.digitales-museum-fuer-kommunikation.de/expotizer-un...

ICA rejects reunited. We should organize an alternative conference in our small circle: Rejected Communication Association. Our research is worth being presented, even to one another!

My submissions to ICA seem to follow either of the two trajectories: (1) I submit and win an award for it, or (2) my submission gets rejected. Too bad that this year it's the second one. #ica26 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

lmao some of the #ica26 reviews i’m receiving are straight up copy and pasted from chatgpt how cool what a slay. for example:

“If the concept of integration can generate double standards, shouldn’t we favour universal standards applicable to everyone?”

Willing to host monthly game nights. PM 📩

The November-December period has been an absolute mayhem but this surely feels good. I can see the light in the tunnel.

I share this impression, every time I try to find new literature

Learning via ChatGPT leads to shallower knowledge than using Google search, study finds A new study involving over 10,000 participants suggests that the convenience of large language models may hinder deep learning. Researchers found that relying on AI summaries results in shallower knowledge retention.

Learning via ChatGPT leads to shallower knowledge than using Google search, study finds

I could totally take advantage of this to work on my grant proposal, but 9 hour train from Lausanne... 🥲

🚨 📲 ❓ New pre-print !
We validated the Smartphone Impact Scale by Pancani and his team in French and English. Thanks so much to Carli Ochs,, Joël Billieux, Peter Hilpert, and others for a collaboration on this one. Looking forward to seeing this out in a journal!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Happy to see that preprints can make it into teaching :)

I do think, though, that when we, as junior researchers, try to advance and seek positions and develop as future professors, it is expected of us to come up with something new, ambitious, original, innovative, which is not always on par with "simplicity" and "descriptiveness".

And yet I think that those descriptive/simplistic papers are some of the most insightful. Now that I'm advancing on some project ideas, I notice that the publications that are the most informative are those that rely on very simple take-home message and a simple analysis.

The point about simplicity as theoretically/conceptually enriching resonated with my experience in publishing. Unfortunately, I've had my papers desk-rejected (by people in the field) due to the lack of (statistical) analytic complexity.

🚀 New #international #call to be launched in 2026

The international joint initiative for research “Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges” will open in January 2026, and the SNSF is taking part!

👉 See the call announcement here: https://sohub.io/xjzz

🚨 We are currently looking for participants! If you meet the criteria or know someone who does, and are willing to chat with us, please reach out to me! 😀

Also, please feel free to share/retweet with your networks.

Thanks in advance!🙏

Uses and gratifications theory (2025 update)

A screenshot of the article title "Disconnect to Recharge: Well-Being Benefits of Digital Disconnection in Daily Life" and the abstract.

📬 Pub alert

Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*?

Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Out now in Communication Research
doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)

Congrats, very interesting publication!!

No rest for the wicked ✈️ ☕️ 📖
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