NEW: Democrats overwhelmingly say US made wrong decision in using military force in Iran (88%). 71% of Republicans say decision was the correct one. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/03/25/americans-broadly-disapprove-of-u-s-military-action-in-iran/#trumps-handling-of-the-conflict-with-iran

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee. Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code. No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

In the not so distant past, sociologists had lively discussions in places like the Scatterplot blog, soc twitter & the Annex Sociology podcast. What happened? Kudos to @philipncohen.com for carrying on his blog.

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee. Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code. No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

Some scholars argue China may be on a path to having a Christian majority by 2050. However, our review casts doubts on claims about continued Christian growth in China in the twenty-first century. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

What Americans consider immoral https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/

Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/19/majority-of-americans-prefer-spread-out-communities-with-big-houses/

Trust the government in Washington will do what is right just about always or most of the time dropped from 73% in 1958 to 17% in 2025.

Godspeed! If it's of any use, political science wrestled with many of the objections that I imagine also come up with in sociology. www.dartstatement.org describes how our community handled transparency for different kinds of research. Not perfect, but these days, most poli sci papers have data!

When I was on the publications committee we passed a resolution calling for mandatory *disclosure* of whether materials were available, not even necessarily sharing, and the council overruled us and rejected the policy

For an overview of The Quiet Revival debate, listen to Bible Society communication leader Mark Woods & UCL emeritus professor David Voas on BBC Sunday, starting one minute into the program https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002gczc

Americans look at me weirdly when I have been living in Pittsburgh for twenty years without a car.

I miss Pepito from Twitter but at least I have @gumbyscreens.bsky.social. I have really enjoyed @akivamcohen.bsky.social's law travails, and while I don't follow @erinbiba.bsky.social I see her because of Jewsky. This is a hard question, I could revise for sure.

ok, so this is a tricky question, but here we go: @proptermalone.bsky.social @faineg.bsky.social @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Wide range of topics, interesting posts, and well, I'd miss the puns if I didn't have Ariel on it.

@jessicacalarco.com @meganranney.bsky.social 🧪🛟 @hels.bsky.social

Strategy Woman - I could write a history from her content. Miranda Keeling - she puts light into my timeline. The NY Times - everything else.

56% of Americans have stopped talking to someone about political or election news because of something that person said.

1. @rebeccasear.bsky.social for social science research. 2. @aedwardslevy.bsky.social for survey research & puns. 3. @scientificdiscovery.dev for science news.

If you could only follow three people, who would you choose?

70% of Americans say gambling is not morally wrong

More than 348,000 people left federal employment last year – an 81% increase from 2024. The number of people who started working for the federal government was down 56%. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/13/federal-workforce-shrank-10-in-trumps-first-year-back-in-office/

56% of Americans have stopped talking to someone about political or election news because of something that person said.

More than 348,000 people left federal employment last year – an 81% increase from 2024. The number of people who started working for the federal government was down 56%. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/13/federal-workforce-shrank-10-in-trumps-first-year-back-in-office/

What Americans consider immoral https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/

Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/19/majority-of-americans-prefer-spread-out-communities-with-big-houses/

I am on the editorial board of three religion journals. For several years, I been working to get each of them to adopt a strong data and code sharing policy. I just sent notice of my intent to resign from each editorial board as of January 1, 2027 if such a policy is not in place.

It’s an embarrassment. Literally and genuinely, I feel embarrassed to have “sociologist” as my job title whenever it comes up.

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank from 2010 to 2020. 🔎Key reasons: aging populations, low fertility, and religious switching - especially in East Asia, where many Buddhists live. More on the why Buddhism is declining worldwide: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

@statnews.com conducted a national survey of NIH-funded researchers and found that, a year after Trump's return, many scientists are reeling, with some closing labs entirely. ‘This is like the Titanic,' one respondent told me. For full details, see our special report www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Using data from the American Time Use Survey, our team at @pewresearch.org looked at how men and women across age groups spend their time in a typical day. Use the interactive to explore how much time men and women spend on 12 different activities, including housework, personal grooming & exercise.

It would be great to have a friendly public discussion about The Quiet Revival. The critics and champions of claims about soaring churchgoing have yet to talk with one another on the same stage. www.womanalive.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Stories about people joining the Catholic church tend to overlook the related phenomenon of people leaving. In the @pewresearch.org Religious Landscape Study, for every adult who reported becoming Catholic, there were 8.4 former Catholics.

A new Canadian study suggests young adults worship most frequently. www.cardus.ca/research/spi... This study canvassed panelists in the Angus Reid Forum, a survey panel that accepts volunteers. The study is not based on a random sample of the Canadian population.

"Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel’s military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account."

As of 2020, Muslims made up a majority of Nigeria’s total population (56.1%), while Christians made up 43.4%.

Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases (60%).

As someone who is disabled, SM is the reason I get any kind of socialization some days. I've made so many friends over the years, both fellow artists and fellow disabled folks, that I would never had the chance to meet otherwise. Those people have kept me out of the dark for a long, long time.

Yes, @awmercer.bsky.social & colleagues at @pewresearch.org have done great work explaining biases of opt-in panels. Here's one place to start www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A steady stream of stories continue using online opt-in survey data to suggest a religious resurgence is underway. Three are used here - https://www.christiantoday.com/news/bible-sales-grew-in-2025-data-shows. The story doesn't mention that the survey data comes from opt-in panels.

I’ve made some wonderful friends, we may never meet irl, but their impact in my life is just as real as if we were neighbors, I don’t say it enough but I cherish them, they’ve helped me keep going through some of the worst times of my life.

Social media is the reason I got my literary agent, the reason THE GHOSTKEEPER got published, and SLEEPING WIZARDS got picked up and is now 75% funded. It’s also my fav part of cons—meeting online artists I’ve admired/chatted w for years, in real life. Sadly, I owe my entire career in comics to sm

back in 2020 I started playing DnD online with a group of people I met through Twitter. we still play DnD to this day and two years ago I went to the wedding of two of them! 🩷

We posted lots of great research about Buddhists today at @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Nearly half of the Buddhist adults in America converted to Buddhism. And slightly more than half of those raised Buddhist no longer identify that way. NEW: 5 Facts about Buddhists in the US https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/11/5-facts-about-buddhists-in-the-united-states/

NEW: Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide? Many people are drawn to Buddhism, but even more have left Buddhism behind. Also, population aging & low fertility. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Buddhism is the only major religion with a falling number of adherents, and the decline is especially pronounced in East Asia. To understand how and why, Pew Research Center conducted interviews in 🇯🇵Tokyo and 🇰🇷Seoul with Japanese and Korean adults who grew up in Buddhist families.

Do you know a social scientist persuaded there's a religious resurgence happening in the UK or US? I'm looking for a panelist or two to make an empirical case for revival in a session at the Soc. for the Scientific Study of Religion meeting. https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/meeting-info/

Do you know a social scientist persuaded there's a religious resurgence happening in the UK or US? I'm looking for a panelist or two to make an empirical case for revival in a session at the Soc. for the Scientific Study of Religion meeting. https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/meeting-info/