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Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.
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  1. Amy Orben

    1. Amy Orben is programme leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

At a policy panel in London in January, I had an uncomfortable realization: I was quite possibly the most disliked person in the room.

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Nature 640, 571 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01141-9

Competing Interests

A.O. receives funding from UK Research and Innovation, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the Jacobs Foundation. She is also a member of the Science Advisory Council at the UK Department of Education.

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