Students often struggle with creating good looking stimuli for experiments on online and social media news use. In these moments, I love to show them my https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> magic trick https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> (1/6)

95% of the time, there is no need to learn GIMP or Photoshop, download 45 fonts, and struggle with layers. Why? Because you have the wonderful “Inspect” function in your browser. (2/6)

Basically, it allows you to edit the content on websites—you can delete/add text and change almost anything according to your liking. Once you’re finished, take a screenshot and that is it! (3/6)

Here is an example for an online news site. You simply select the part you want to edit, right-click, select “Inspect” and start the fun. Disclaimer: AFAIK, Kim Kardashian did not actually receive an ERC grant. Bummer. (4/6)

Here is another example for Instagram. Again, you can edit all text according to your liking and, of course, also change stuff like the number of likes. (5/6)

Tell your students—doctors *do* want you to know that trick! And maybe also tell them to reinvest the time saved into preregistering their hypotheses https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😇" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit Heiligenschein" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit Heiligenschein"> (6/6)