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Just defended my PhD thesis Humanities & Social Sciences Group KU Leuven grateful for the support of my supervisor Kathleen Beullens and supervisory committee Steven Eggermont Thomas Friemel. Looking forward to start my PostDoc at Cambridge University later this month.

Great talk of @OrbenAmy about future challenges in research on media use and wellbeing at #CamNeuro2022. Looking forward to tackle them with the team Luisa Fassi Sakshi Ghai Georgia Turner Amanda Ferguson

So excited for this to be out! Hear me chat with The Science or Fiction Podcast about my favourite topic: "social media use affects mental health: science or fiction?" 🎧

Had a great day at UPenn discussing the role of social media in young people's life with members of @SAFElab Thanks to Aviv Landau & Dr.Desmond Upton Patton for the invitation

“lack of access to a computer ... likely compounds other adversities facing children and young people during periods of social isolation or educational disruption” – new research from @tom_metherell Sakshi Ghai @McCormickNeuro Professor Tamsin Ford 💙 @OrbenAmy doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

📢 new pub alert! Want to know more how we can capture (alcohol-related) social media effects in an evolving media landscape? Kathleen Beullens Sebastian Kurten @LeuvenMassComm . Read our latest piece via: cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/1…

So excited for this work joint co-authored with Sakshi Ghai to be published! A scoping review and meta-analysis on the lack of diversity in social media and mental health research ⤵️

The 2nd article of our "Young Scholars Action" special issue was just published: doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.… The innovative daily diary study by Robyn Vanherle, Sebastian Kurten & Ann Rousseau investigates which communication channels increased #COVID19 risk perceptions and behaviour.

What better than a meta-hackathon to get ready for #SIPS2023? 🎯Our goal: improve causal literacy across the scientific pipeline🎯 Join us on June 23rd from 9:30 (CEST) in room 1M or online to share your causal wisdom! 🧵

What's the role of material deprivation in social media use and its links to life satisfaction? In a current study, we provide some answers using longitudinal data from 23,155 adolescents psyarxiv.com/jexzk Great team effort Sakshi Ghai, @candice_odgers, @rogierK & @OrbenAmy

Just wow..great energy and ideas at our first #SIPS2023 hackaton on improving causal literacy across the scientific pipeline. Thank you to everyone that has joined in person and online 🤩

Social media may increase risk of teenage binge drinking, study suggests The i Paper A University of Glasgow study found teenagers may use social media to show off their drinking behaviour, putting pressure on peers to do the same inews.co.uk/news/health/so…

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Our content analysis on how famous Belgian influencers refer to alcohol in their Instagram feed posts vs stories got published Kathleen Beullens Sebastian Kurten 1/ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…