“average monkey asks 3 questions a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average monkey asks 0 questions per year. Curious georg, who lives in cave & asks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Yeah, I really can't stress enough that AI code assistants royally fuck up statistical analyses. And they do it with absolute confidence.

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Is there a revival of churchgoing among US young adults? According to Opt-in online polls: Yes Surveys using random samples of the population: No https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/23/has-there-been-a-christian-revival-among-young-adults-in-the-uk-recent-surveys-may-be-misleading/

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Quiz – How Well Do You Understand Your Health Insurance? Take this 10-question quiz to test your knowledge of common health insurance terminology, concepts and jargon www.kff.org/private-insu...

Scream is an incredible movie. Best horror movie of the last 50 years by a mile.

Really enjoyed writing this piece with @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social. Helped me structure my own thinking about when and how to use digital behavioral data for causal inference. Hope others find it useful as well!

Giant rewatch of all of Supernatural. Great idea? Or the best idea?

The “optimizing” trend is all about shifting responsibility for health onto the individual and profiting from it. You can do everything “right” and still get cancer. Ask me how I know.

Just had an argument with my partner that ended with her emphatically stating “I did *not* forget about Dre.”

Is Christianity making a comeback? The data might surprise you. I joined the Holy Smoke podcast to dig into the evidence behind a "Quiet Revival." Apple podcasts link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Spectator link: spectator.com/podcast/is-t... #quietrevival

Survey researchers: I'll discuss LLM "synthetic respondents" in a free webinar this week. ➡️ Synthetic Survey Data? It's Not Data Thursday Feb 19, 12pm Eastern, hosted by Sawtooth Free registration: sawtoothsoftware.com/resources/ev... (P.S., I give no quarter on this topic 😆)

Pro-tip: you almost certainly do not want the 10-cup rice maker, even if it’s only slightly more expensive than the 5 cup. I promise.

@evanbirnholz.bsky.social out here giving @aapor.bsky.social lessons in the Sunday crossword 🥹

All the best basslines are from the 70’s prove me wrong.

Setting aside the fact that it is *extremely* violent, God of War (2018) is a very sweet, very wholesome game.

Happy Friday the 13th to those who celebrate. 🔪🔪🔪

For the love of god, can it just melt already?

Watching Home Movies for like the 300th time. Like we do.

Desperately trying to think of a Sliders Georg joke but failing.

Consequences

NEW: How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” from Matthew Conrad & me https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-5-89/

Man, Frankenstein is a n extremely tedious 2.5 hours. Good lord.

Posted a helpful little set of FAQs about regression for my causal inference class, including illustrations of statistical vs. substantive signficance and all the different things you can do with #rstats model objects evalsp26.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2026-02...

Part of me wants to get tickets to see NiN at the MCI Center and (a probably wiser) part of me knows it’s not going to be better than it was in 1994. Still…

Man, Red Dead Redemption 2 is just a sad, sad game.

Bedtime music.

Sometimes it is a miracle I actually manage to get anything done. 🤦‍♂️

Nothing like shoveling snow to remind you that you are Middle-Aged(TM).

It was a glorious time.

Washington DC right before a major snowstorm.

Great list!

Regular Jon’s pizza in Westwood, whose pizza was incredible but is probably most famous for this scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I blew so many quarters on that Karate Champ machine….

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

hi @awmercer.bsky.social i drew your cat as my daily art piece for today! (1/15/2026) #art #drawing #artoftheday #cats #catart

Charlie appears to have completely broken containment which, tbh, is kind of on brand for him.

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

Very much looking forward to reading this

Charlie has figured out how to make the printer print test pages and now it’s all he wants to do.

There is a sense in which Kyle MacLachlan was type cast after Twin Peaks, but rather than stagnate, he took it and made being a weird guy on a suit into high art.

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

I know this isn't where everyone's headspace is right now, but I want to highlight some survey stories we published over the holiday period, since I think they're a good reflection of the breadth of public opinion reporting.

Colin Farrell as Penguin is amazing and also I still don’t quite believe it’s Colin Farrell.

again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore

The only correct answer.