Yeah, he's back

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Great stuff from a wonderful group of scholars. I'm really forward to digging in!

This is plausible, but given the significant polling miss in 2020 it's also plausible that polls were overstating opposition to DJT45 and have since been corrected for DJT47. Likely it's some combination of the two...but hard to say what the mix is when the analysis and data are proprietary.

The phrase isn't "it's the economy, smart person" for a reason.

This is great stuff! Time to start using the f-word again.

In my happy place...asking Papa Leone for something edition.

Tried this with Canada and the model actually produced a highly accurate rendition of how I presume folks from Ontario view the country.

Wondering what sort of misfortunate befell me such that my life has led me to this place? Fear not -- the Cubs just happened to be out of town.

At ASA I'm planning on plopping down in the hotel lobby with a copy of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism just to make sure everyone knows I read the classics.

Reminds me of when Jim Butcher had an internet argument over the importance of ideas vs execution in writing. He challenged the other person to give him the two worst ideas. The ideas: Pokémon and the lost Roman legion. Butcher wrote Codex Alara and won the argument. Craft matters -- not ideas.

I do this move in OOTP baseball all the time just to remind myself what a life full of regret actually feels like.

This is a fun article because it further reinforces the idea that religion and medicine can be (and often are) complementary in addressing mental health concerns.

Co-authored article (Emanuel Cusanelli, Arch Wong, @josephroso.bsky.social) now published: "Mental Health & Illness: Perceptions & Experiences in #Canadian Christian #Congregations" in collab. w/@fcinstitute.bsky.social & @sanctuarymh.bsky.social. #mentalhealth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exploring alternative pedagogies for sociological theory classes.

This is literally the first time I can ever remember living in a country where the right track/wrong track numbers are pointed in a positive direction.

The whole nation is just an airplane passenger who collapses and the flight attendant shouts "HELP! Is there a doctor of theology on board?"

Vin’s call. youtu.be/QjqYThEVoSQ

the actual full quote: "A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

Me before the Derby: I just love the feel good fun. Me during the Derby: You fool! How could you sacrifice your competitive advantage on the altar of petty sentimentality!

Breakfast of champions. Ya-hoo!

Folks are picturing conservative Protestants endorsing MAGA candidates, but historically it's been Black Protestant congregations that have endorsed candidates, and non-conservative Protestants that have been the most directly involved in electoral politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is potentially an inversion of a dymanic during the 2024 election where people who were paying close attention/had heard a lot about the issues were less likely to support DJT.

In my happy place...southern Alberta summer edition.

📡 Was Trump a populist vessel or a mirror? Dr. @josephroso.bsky.social’s #Socius study shows how #ReligiousElites used #xenophobic and #Islamophobic narratives in evangelical media—shaping #PublicOpinion and #USpolitics long before Trump. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

According to science, the best weapon against polarization in the US is just the concept of Italy.

Check out my new article on xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric among US evangelical leaders that just got published (open access) in @sociusjournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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"AI" news is just: "Altman asks for $14 quadrillion to build personal LLM-powered Borg cube; Dario warns of inevitable Borg invasion" Followed by "Rigorous research finds LLMs worse than two frogs on Adderall for most reasoning tasks" Over and over again.

My new article w/ Kathleen Sellers about US priests is out...just in time for an American Pope! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Main finding is that priests from religious orders tend to be less conservative. In light of this, I'll be watching how Leo's (an Augustinian) papacy plays out.

New sociology of emotions tech tree just dropped.

I would like to extend my personal thanks to whoever hand-scanned all 1,352 pages of the journal of the 1992 United Methodist General Conference: archive.org/details/jour... It even has a map of what downtown Louisville looked like in 1992. Incredible. This is what makes research possible.

What we create is in many ways a reflection of who we are. In this exchange, ChatGPT responds as if it were a complete psychopath. What does that say about its creators?

Dems never recovered from losing Cedric Richmond. It's like when the Red Sox traded Mookie.

Murray State!

Harsh but fair.

Co-authored article accepted (w/Emanuel Cusanelli, @archckwong.bsky.social, @josephroso.bsky.social)! "Mental Health & Illness Perceptions & Experiences in Canadian Christian Congregations," based on collab. with @fcinstitute.bsky.social & @sanctuarymh.bsky.social. Stay tuned for pub. details!

Youtube fed me this video, and is unquestionably brilliant. It perfectly and eloquently articulates so much of how I've been feeling about LLMs but struggled to put into words or coherent thought.

Am I doing this right?

Betteridge's Law strikes again!

I can confirm (from personal experience) that he WILL have to deal with US tax returns because the US requires all citizens (even those living abroad) to file a return. Not sure how many US tax returns have ever been filed by someone whose residence is the Vatican.

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️ www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...

The pope's first miracle is getting the mainstream media to remember that the White Sox won the 2005 World Series.

This is great news. It's very important that the pope be able to empathize with the downtrodden and forgotten of society.

Shockingly it's still not Shadeur Sanders

Not clear to me that Dems on the hill have properly calibrated for where public opinion is.