*reads the White House post* *chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*

Pay attention to this. The purpose of these investigations is not just to manufacture evidence to support Trump’s 2020 “voter fraud” accusations, but also to set the stage for another round of efforts to suppress votes and delegitimize election results in 2026 (which the GOP is likely to lose).

NEW @pewresearch.org report I led with my team on religion in Latin America! The study focuses on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, a group of countries that together make up roughly 75% of the region’s population. pewrsr.ch/3NofOy9 A few key takeaways in the:thread:below: 1/

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Important new FREE study by Amy Brooke Grauley. Experiments show when Christian leaders warn Christians against Christian nationalism, they're less likely to identify with it, especially if they don't have strong views on it yet. Effects are weaker in the opposite direction. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

It's academic job market season. I’ve written a reflection with some potentially helpful tips: jaeyk.github.io/essays/job_m...

📣 We are hiring! 👇 This PhD position is part of a research project that examines how growing income inequality can reshape the way democracy functions by influencing both political discourse and public opinion. More info here: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3542...

Way to go @marykatz.bsky.social, who successfully defended her master's thesis today: "A Social Psychological Window Into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests." She's doing such cool work at the nexus of social psych, political psych, and the psych of religion!!

🧵 Just out in SRE. I dig into how Christian nationalism promotes white supremacy by focusing on racial stereotypes. CN is positively linked with viewing Whites as smarter & more hardworking than Blacks & Latinos. BUT the action is mostly on how CN shapes views re: Whites. 1/5 doi.org/10.1177/2332...

Join us tomorrow for a data-driven conversation on Christian nationalism & patriotism in the wake of July 4th & the passing of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." Totally free. Time & zoom deets in the post below. @prri.org @shortle.bsky.social @melissadeckman.bsky.social @sssreligion.bsky.social

Come work with me!

Today we released a major @pewresearch.org survey of LGBTQ adults looking at: ▶️ Views of social acceptance for LGBTQ people ▶️ Personal experiences with acceptance, discrimination ▶️ Experiences with coming out ▶️ Identity ▶️ Community, friends and LGBTQ spaces Read on for findings from each section.

The GSS just dropped new data this week. Here's an interesting shift over the past 10 years. Among Americans as a whole, fewer say that being a Christian is "very/fairly important" to being truly American. But Republicans actually *increased* in that view, reflecting the hard ethno-nationalist turn.

Check out our new pre-print, reporting findings that the cost of attending Pope Francis's funeral predicts parochial altruism, supporting theories of self-signaling osf.io/preprints/os...

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

Social science gives us the tools to understand the very forces that fear it. Kudos to @marahalkire.bsky.social for leading this piece, in which she, @clarawilkins.bsky.social, and I share how, to many people, recent pushes to root out “anti-Christian bias” serve to signal pro-White allegiance.

JOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.

New @repslab.bsky.social paper published online today at the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) by a team of undergraduate and graduate UCLA students. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last call! If you're a PhD student in sociology or political science & you're interested in Religion & Public Life, apply to attend our **fully funded** seminar on Religion & Politics, June 16-21st. Details below! **Application deadline is tomorrow (March 31st).** wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...

The @nytimes.com highlighted @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social's recent 2025 UW Faculty Lecture where she described how a “machinery of bullshit” has become "intertwined with digital media." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b... [1/3]

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...

I'm giving a talk tonight at UW. Heads up that the subtitle here is a bit of a misnomer. I'm actually going to talk about what my team's decade of research on online rumors reveals about the right wing bullshit machine. If you can't come in person, there's a livestream.

📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!

Trump's planning to sign an executive order to combat anti-Christian bias. In a recent article in @psychscience.bsky.social, my colleagues (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social) & I show that such political appeals can serve as potent racial dog whistles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My paper exploring the relationship between group prototypicality and how it impacts how boundaries are defined, is officially online! 🧵👇

Since immigrants (and their children) are a frequent topic of discussion, I thought I'd remind folks that the U.S. National Academies studied the effects of immigration on the U.S. and published a free report. Here's one finding that stands out to me. 1/4 nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2355...

New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

New volume on "Resistance to Repression and Violence: Global Psychological Perspectives", co-edited with Fouad Bou Zeineddine. Link to book here academic.oup.com/book/57643 or global.oup.com/academic/pro... and brief summary of chapters with links to abstracts and some full texts in 🧵. 1/17

A brilliant and much needed pack. Please share far and wide! go.bsky.app/MHfnaeh

REP Starter Pack go.bsky.app/GxR7Bkf

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

Hello, to all of the #socialpsychology and #psychology friends over here in this new place! I'm excited to share all of the amazing science that JESP has to offer! We are always looking for new submissions too, so please send us your newest findings! Happy Friday!

Social Psychology II by me!

Social Psychology I by me!

And the very incomplete part 2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj If you aren’t part of either and you are political psychology or adjacent let me know and I’ll add

For the wave of new people, if you are interested in political psychology checkout the political psych starter pack Part 1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

The rumor is true. I *will* review PhD applications for my lab, newly located at the University of Illinois Chicago! Please apply if you're interested in social identity (with focus on Asian, MENA, Hispanic Americans) and intraminority coalition-conflict. Lab: www.pbandjlab.com (jk there's no rumor)

As someone who often uses self-reports and has found that they work pretty well for what we want, this is a refreshing perspective pointing out that they work and they work better than the oft-cited alternatives.

Nominate a psych grad student to give a talk at Princeton, expenses paid! Nominate yourself or a colleague here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Priority given to non-ivy schools and students from diverse backgrounds

Good news -- the Pew Research Center starter pack is here! You can follow my smart & witty colleagues here - bsky.app/starter-pack... Please share this Starter Pack with anyone who might want more Pew Research in their feed. 🌐 🧪

Political Psychology startpack expanded from 50 to 150 follows go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx

I made a Bluesky "starter pack" for political psychology. Suggests 50 people to follow and 3 feeds go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx

In our new Psych Science article (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social & Chad MIller w/ Sam Perry & Clara Wilkins), we show that this type of rhetoric, which highlights the perception of Christians being under threat, can serve as an effective racial dog whistle. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵 Excited to share our recent work published in Psych Science! We show that talk of anti-Christian bias leads White Christians to perceive anti-White bias & this can be leveraged as a dog whistle by politicians to signal allegiance to Whites. 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A recent report by Pew Research Center finds that language and traditions are considered central to national identity, while views on the importance of birthplace and religion are more divided. Read the full report here: www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/...