Easily one of the top charts of all time

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.

Amazing chart with horrible acronyms - for the first time in my living memory, unemployment in Northern Europe and Southern Europe seems to have converged. Seemed unthinkable during the Eurozone crisis.

There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival. My new post:

Attention undergrads! @pewresearch.org has more than a dozen paid internships for rising juniors and seniors this summer in Washington, DC. Find more info here: www.pewresearch.org/about/intern... Apply here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

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/

I will be teaching a short course on survey experiments at the @recsm.bsky.social winter school. More information: www.upf.edu/web/survey/2...

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

Nicht Algorithmen oder Plattformen allein sind schuld an der zunehmenden Polarisierung – es ist komplexer. @ajungherr.bsky.social erforscht, u. a. am bidt, wie digitale Medien politische Kommunikation verändern. Mehr zu seiner Person & Forschung im Porträt: www.bidt.digital/im-portraet-...

I guess StackOverflow is done.

open.substack.com/pub/jorgegal... Esto de @jorgegalindo.bsky.social pero muy, muy fuerte. De alguien que se fue y no volvió.

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

I cannot readily imagine a relative advantage of sampling survey/experiment data from an LLM to sampling known models/distributions if we cannot meaningfully define a population LLMs sample or formalize the sampling scheme. Idk what we can learn abt a model/method without clarity abt what we put in.

I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.

Unha externalidade da IA da que tal vez o público xeral non é consciente pero que a min me toca a moral todos os días é o efecto dos bots de IA que varren constantemente Internet en busca de contido. Nótase moito en webs de proxectos de código aberto. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...

We'd love to hear your ideas for overlooked or understudied topics. ⬇️

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵 In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👇

In our charts, we sometimes illustrate the margin of error through error bars, also called confidence intervals. But what do they mean? How should they be interpreted? Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with error bars.

How people in 24 countries feel about their political parties

Come work with me as a writer/editor/data journalist at @pewresearch.org: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

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NEW from @pewresearch.org: "Since 2014, we have adjusted the surveys we conduct on our American Trends Panel (ATP) to account for party affiliation. As of June 2025, we are adjusting our surveys to match the results of the 2024 presidential election, too."

🥁 Carmucha VST, a primeira ferramenta virtual de percusión tradicional galega Lijas Virtual Sampler e MOB Studios lanzan Carmucha VST, un 'plugin' de percusión tradicional galega, "libre, accesible e totalmente gratuíto" praza.gal/cultura/carm...

IRS to allow churches to endorse political candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u... (via @nytimes.com) Politics is already common at the pulpit: In the fall of 2020, two-thirds of churches studied by @pewresearch.org heard a sermon mentioning the election: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

We just released the Pew Research Center's 2024 validated voter report! This comprehensive analysis of the 2024 electorate examines turnout and vote choice by matching members of our survey panel to official state voter records. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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NEW RESEARCH about Bluesky on Bluesky: pewrsr.ch/4mDKCrx - 43% of the news influencers we studied last year are now on Bluesky - but most are also on X (Twitter) - 69% of left-leaning influencers; 15% of right-leaning ones - rate of posting increased in 2025

NEW @pewresearch.org data on Bluesky: "It has become a destination for many news influencers, especially those who lean to the political left." The share of news influencers with a Bluesky account roughly doubled after the 2024 election, from 21% to 43%. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

More from our recent report using web browsing data: Respondents tended to visit pages mentioning AI in generic terms, marketing language, brand names. pewrsr.ch/4kDb6I5

After looking at 1 month of web browsing data from US Adults we found that relatively few respondents visited a news article that discussed AI in a meaningful context. Read more at www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

The Data Labs team at @pewresearch.org is at #AAPOR! Should you trust LLMs to code survey open ends? It’s complicated! Come find out more at 430pm in Midway 5.

José « Pepe » Mujica, ancien président de l’Uruguay et grande voix de l’Amérique latine, est mort

NEW @pewresearch.org data: How deportation concerns vary by race/ethnicity 42% of Latino adults worry that, regardless of legal status, they or someone close to them could be deported. 19% of Black, 19% of Asian and 12% of White adults share that concern.

You've heard of enshitification but have you heard of Carcinisation?

These are some eye-opening thoughts about potential complementarities between AV and public transit: from first-mile/last-mile to on-demand microtransit in low-density areas. www.weforum.org/stories/2024...

It's remarkable how quickly autonomous vehicles are expanding. Cities around the world really need to start thinking about how they want to interact with them. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/w...

This project was such an incredible window into our shared humanity. It's hard not to get misty eyed looking back at this. These range from touching to funny to heartbreaking. It's absolutely worth your time to give them a read.

What do students use Claude for? "[D]esigning practice questions, editing essays, or summarizing academic material. Students also frequently used Claude to provide technical explanations or solutions for academic assignments" www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Mario Vargas Llosa, Prix Nobel de littérature et auteur de « La Tante Julia et le scribouillard », est mort

Hey there, Bluesky! We are excited to share our data and insights here with you, and so are our researchers: go.bsky.app/3QzdR9p What would you like to see from us? Drop suggestions below!

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI marketers: You can use our product to do research! Everyone: But the research is bad! AI marketers: … AI marketers: You can use our product to do 𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱

A new project to track polls: The NYT will build off the work of the recently shuttered 538, trying to ensure that this resource, which is a foundational tool for many journalists and researchers, remains updated long-term. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/p...

New preprint! A general overview of stats in public policy research with this (oversimplified but still helpful) separation of methods into description, explanation, and prediction #policysky HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/ SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

SURPRISE: Many more people use #LLMs for personal purposes than for work-related activities – and that’s even true for those who have jobs. Part of a new report from @ITDFuture at Elon University about how people use & think about LLMs imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-... #LLM #AIresearch

All the @pewresearch.org data about views on the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-political aftermath in one place: www.pewresearch.org?p=197456 As are many of you, this week am marking 5 yrs since entering quarantine phase. Brings back some feelings!

Work with me! We're looking for an editorial assistant to help us with fact-checking, copy editing and other tasks. In this job you'll help us make sure that our research publications adhere to the highest standards of accuracy, neutrality and clarity. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...