PSA: That thing you got your kid for Christmas: USB charger blocks not included.

The #CivicScienceFellows program is accepting applications for 2026-27 host partners! The new cohort of #CivicScience Fellows will focus on change: change rooted in science, change rooted in communications, and change rooted in policy. Applications are due December 15.

$25K fellowships for early career researchers studying the intersection of psychotherapy and relational virtues (e.g., gratitude, humility, forgiveness). Deadline Dec 15, 2025. mstargsu.substack.com/p/rfp-flouri...

Musical serendipity: quoting Mike Tyson while writing a grant proposal while Charlie Hunter comes up on shuffle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CA...

Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In case anyone else is overdue on deleting your academia.edu account, here's how (and why):

We did something radical that shouldn’t feel radical: we stopped funding science built for journals so that we can reimagine scientific publishing. First @arcadiascience.com. Now at @asterainstitute.bsky.social.

What search terms do you use in interdisciplinary literature searches to narrow your scope to (a) empirical work (vs. literature reviews or theory, say) and/or (b) research involving religion? docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Add your terms or comment here. 1 / 2

Vogon rest stop confirmed. doi.org/10.3847/2041...

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

The Navigation Fund's open science funding portfolio is now up and running with two RFPs, one for OS meetings and one for OS and AI. (See onward links at the bottom of this call for more.) It's all looking encouragingly nimble, and with a substantial annual payout for OS. os.nav.fund/meeting-fund/

Deadlines are May 30:

"The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics" www.nber.org/papers/w33729

Rapid response grants for cancelled NSF education-related grantees. Great work Spencer Foundation!!

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great to see senior academics in cognitive development calling out current threats to foundational scientific study of how children learn and think while also praising collaborative innovations like the Open Science Framework and the Developing Belief Network.

🛠️ Calling all open source developers! COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF). Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you. Proposals due: May 14th, 2025. 🔗 http://cos.io/pose #DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience

Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

In full accordance with the liturgical calendar of no one, today was the day to take the outdoor Christmas lights down, partly but mainly so the lawn guy didn't cut the cable.

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

No relationship observed between religious service attendance and measures of mental health in a longitudinal UK household panel survey (1991-2009). Seems like there must be similar data available from other countries. Curious why more doesn't get published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

srsly if you hate that publishers charge your grant $5-10K for open access, there's a simple solution don't write for those journals don't review for those journals don't edit for those journals Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

This is now editable by anyone (as had been my original intention)... 71 societies or networks so far, but I'm sure there are lots more.

Academic and professional networks for the study of religion: there are a lot! And some overlapping networks that focus on applied settings. What's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Researchers who study religion: which specialty journals do you publish in or cite? Here's a publicly editable/shareable list of (so far) 32 journals covering the disciplinary water front: what's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

The ARDA is the world's largest online religion data archive, with a lot of really great resources that bring that data to life for those who are interested in their communities, states, our nation, and the world. Subscribing to our newsletter (2 emails a month) will keep you up to date!

Opportunity for ECRs interested in patience (state, trait, or virtue conceptualizations thereof) to get in on the ground level of a big team science project on patience in adversity: brights.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/patience-adv...

A variety of new funding opportunities here for global philosophy of religion, including empirical or theoretical research, public engagement, and training: globalphilosophyofreligion.com/grants/

Which is fine. Errors need to be corrected and the community should be alerted. Retraction is not a bad thing; it's useful and necessary.

Good opportunity to collaborate with Dutch researchers on replication studies--and a good model for other national and private funders to follow.

All the nostalgia here. They really didn’t know what was coming… Also, bonus feature: pipe-smoking father who loves beef at $1.89/lb or a $59.99 recliner that suits “almost any room”.

Full scholarships for 5-day residential Duke University Spirituality and Health Research Workshop (August 11-15, 2025) available for promising graduate students in developing countries and economically disadvantaged areas of the world. Full details: spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/index.php/5-...

Starting in 15 minutes! Still time to register (I think!)

Our project on the evolutionary dynamics of religion, family size and child success is now on bluesky 👇 Follow for updates on our cross-cultural research, which is getting to a particularly exciting stage of paper-writing 😊 (after a long slog of data collection in 6 countries!)

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open! We’re after ideas for sessions, talks, posters & online symposia. Deadline 7 February metascience.info/call-for-pro... And if you haven’t already, save the date! 30 June to 2 July #Metascience25 @briannosek.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Opportunity to work with a fantastic world-wide team @crossref.bsky.social, supporting #funders to contribute their #metadata to the scholarly record with our Grant Linking System. www.crossref.org/jobs/2024-12...

Happy St. Nicholas Day 🎅 Noted by my mother annually and one time by a Dutch collaborator who mailed me a dark chocolate Sinterklaas as big as a wine bottle.

Here are some psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and the like with known interests in the scientific study of religion. Who am I missing so far? go.bsky.app/63eMXRU

Fully funded PhD studentship to study the psychology of the 'spiritual but not religious' at Oxford Brookes University. Please share and/or message me if interested. Applications due: January 17th, 2025 #religion #spirituality #cultevo #psychology #PhD