A really nice analysis to show the potential benefits & harms of caring roles on later life cognition: at lower levels it may help, without they can overwhelm
With a clear caveat that selection bias is a very real risk in studies like this, even when longitudinal and thoughtfully analyzed
Sacha's key point as I read it is that we focus too much on things like prebunking and skeptical reading, and not enough on building societal trust. Which is a message I can get behind, but am very aware is very hard to do...
You know you’re at a demography heavy conference when the notepad is a lexis diagram… @mpidr.bsky.social
Have you thought carefully about how misinformation works differerntially for adolescents vs adults? Nor had I, so this was a really useful primer/thinkpiece, led by Ili Ma & Wouter van den Bos
3. @hollycrudgington.bsky.social & @jackandrews.bsky.social give a commentary on #2 focused on how we conceptualize social isolation: in particular how we include/exclude non-class/school ties, ingoing vs outgoing ties, & dynamic change. Centrally, each approach changes the estimand of interest
Guy Harling
2. Magali Collonnaz & colleagues highlight much variation in measures used & how they are reported in adolescent health network research.
They probably agree with the ideas behind grand-statement.org (Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data)
Some more adolescent network papers:
1. Mary Page Leggett-James & colleaugues show middle school kids are influenced by best friends on emotions &"problem behaviours", but popularity-based norms predict social media use & weight concerns
More adolescent & social network stuff, from the UCNets dataset by Jiaqi Qin & Jingbo Meng, showing how support network foci (family/friends/partner/peers) predict adolescent wellbeing. Their broad findings: family > peers. This feels quite exploratory but a prompt for thought
And if you want a wider thinkpiece on misinformation this article from @sachaltay.bsky.social looks interesting:
"Key shifts include focusing on the demand for misinformation, fostering trust in reliable sources, and strengthening democratic institutions."
Also preprinted: osf.io/preprints/ps...
