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“LinkedIn is not a workplace, it merely frames itself as a workplace… LinkedIn has to absorb some of the responsibility of maintaining a professional environment because they can’t offload this to people’s employers.”

Co-authored with Ben Bariach and Keegan McBride on AI-generated likeness and identity.

“Collecting data about people’s relationships to others is a delicate but important part of many scientific fields from studies of community to contact tracing for COVID.”

“We’ve gone from door to door contact between humans, to place to place (letters); to space to space (telephone, email), to agent to agent (lots of data).”

“What I was doing was to help people educate themselves on what is a social network and how do they fit into the wider world… Trading data is the point of Facebook. That’s literally what the site is for.”

“We found that those using more media tend to report no greater relationship satisfaction and some even reported decreasing satisfaction… there may be a cut-off point after which the increasing complexity of maintaining so many separate communications threads starts to undermine relationship ties.”

Coverage of research on media multiplexity and relationship satisfaction.

“Finding your partner online was once regarded as a bit of a novelty, but this survey suggests it has become a common if not dominant way of meeting new partners, particularly if you are between 40 and 70 years old.”

Scientific mentor for a finalist of BBC Radio 4’s “So You Want To Be A Scientist?” in an experiment on Facebook profile images and identity.