Amy Orben

@OrbenAmy

tech + teens + better science // College Research Fellow // // anglo-germanic

Cambridge, England
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Joined January 2016
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    7 hours ago

    ▶️ Tomorrow, 4-5pm CGC member will be presenting “Scoping Review: Examining the impact of in Global North versus research contexts” We look forward to it, Sakshi!

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    11 hours ago

    10-item scale - each rating from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). You’re deemed a "smartphone addict" if you score >31 (male) or >33 (female) i.e. just over 3 per question i.e. halfway between disagree and agree. Am I missing something?

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    21 hours ago

    ✨New preprint: ✨ , and I examined if and how the associations between adolescents' digital technology use and mental health problems have changed over time.

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  4. Feb 25

    I'm giving a talk next week highlighting some new findings and reflecting on how research investigating digital interactions can - in future - be integrated with cognitive, developmental or clinical work already happening at ! See below for sign-up details

    Have you missed our weekly Seminar Series? Dr Steve Edgley's seminar is now available to view: Sign up for - Tuesday at 16:00 'A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use'
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    Feb 23

    Deadline for applications : 25 February Postdoc job in Cambridge with us: The postholder needs to have a PhD (already awarded or to be submitted this summer), and to be proficient in programming and analysing big datasets and statistical modelling using e.g. R.

    New postdoc job alert! We are seeking a postdoc to work at , Cambridge, UK, on a project on mental health effects of social distancing during Covid-19, using smartphone technology and data collection across multiple sites and countries
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  6. Feb 22

    🥳🥳 Such a win for ! But we will miss having this brilliant scientist around at the

    GREAT NEWS: I'll be starting as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bristol! 🥳 My research programme will focus on cognitive development, using a broad quantitative approach to fully embrace its complexity. See you in September !
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  7. Feb 22

    Except that I am currently felting 🦕🦖🦕🦖

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  8. Feb 22

    Saved this to my phone 10 months ago - still an exceedingly accurate depiction of how I will emerge from lockdown.

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    Feb 19

    We're excited to share the visual note from our event in January 'Hire Your Way To Better Science'! Thank you to our fantastic speakers

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  10. Feb 18

    Continuing my 2021 'year of listening' by re-reading & co. report on social media and its impact on health-related behaviours: lovely example of accessible science reporting!

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  11. Feb 17

    "this collective search for a unitary numerical value linking screen time with developmental outcomes is futile, primarily because such a value does not exist" Read more in my newly preprinted opinion piece ⬇️

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    Feb 17

    The new report is now out showing concerning increases in difficulties among our participants in January, particularly among primary school aged children and teenage girls.

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  13. Feb 16

    Interesting: “17–24 year olds who attended higher education had lower average psychological distress (GHQ score ...) and lower odds of case-level distress than those who did not”

    📢 My first paper published! We looked at outcomes in higher education vs non-students using With & in
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  14. Feb 16

    Team Zoom meetings in February 2021

    I was looking into tonic immobility — or when animals "play dead" to confuse predators or attract prey — and found these pictures. Absolutely loving the drama here. Bravo.
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    Feb 15

    “it is difficult to use some websites when using shortcuts and a screen reader because the sites are not explaining what is actually written there. You are trying to learn something which could be easier for you ...but...” (Joao, 18, with glaucoma)

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    Feb 13

    The grifter: My 8 year old niece The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls) The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school’s computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team The con: How she pulled it off… thread

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  17. Feb 15

    🚨Preprint Update🚨 The work now includes a new preregistered dataset: it confirms our finding of a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence. >99% of 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 adolescents are estimated to experience a decline between 10-24y.

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    Feb 15

    Bananormalisation! 🍌👍

    Graph showing the numbers of publications for brain areas for each year from 1990 to 2020. In order of "popularity": prefrontal cortex, amygdala, cingulate cortex, visual cortex, supplementary motor area, frontal eye fields.
    Writing a grant or review? Highlighting changes in interest for the topic? That's hard when publication rates skyrocket everywhere! Here's a simple solution: just use a banana for scale! 🍌 Manuscript with here: Thread below!
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    Feb 15

    10 days until the application deadline for this postdoc job in Cambridge. The postholder needs to have a PhD (already awarded or to be submitted this summer), and to be proficient in programming, and analysing big datasets and statistical modelling using e.g. R. Details below:

    New postdoc job alert! We are seeking a postdoc to work at , Cambridge, UK, on a project on mental health effects of social distancing during Covid-19, using smartphone technology and data collection across multiple sites and countries
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    15 Jul 2019

    “If the precision of expression goes up as the accuracy of measurement goes down, the science is likely to be GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) or vacuously pseudo-quantified” (Stirling, 1993) 🔥🔥

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