Call for proposals: $10,000 seed grants for research about religion in the U.S. https://www.ssrc.org/programs/religion-and-the-public-sphere/innovation-in-religion-and-spirituality-seed-grants/ Great opportunity!

The call for papers for the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) conference in Buenos Aires (February 15-20, 2027) is open until June 10. I'm looking for submissions about religion & demography. https://conference-system.sisr-issr.org/conferences/conference-2027/#papers

I am honored to become (in August) the president-elect of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. sociologyofreligion.org

David Voas notes YouGov & Bible Society never published the full dataset from the (now retracted) Quiet Revival report. They declined invites for debate. https://www.iflscience.com/they-basically-refused-any-kind-of-public-debate-on-this-why-the-quiet-christian-revival-narrative-fell-apart-83293

I joined host Adam Fleming and fellow panelist Pat Allerton (better known as the ‘Portable Priest’) on BBC Radio 4’s 'Anti-Social' today to tackle a perennial but increasingly contentious question: Is Britain still a Christian country? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture invites journalists to propose story ideas that capture the changing nature of American religion. The journalism fellowship will fund journalists to tell deeply reported stories in written or multimedia formats. dornsife.usc.edu/crcc/journal...

Great initiative, sounds a little like @peercomjournal.bsky.social another excellent project which I highly recommend & encourage everyone to support!

Just found out about the new science journal "Stacks". The editorial board includes the legendary @elisabethbik.bsky.social. Publication costs are what they should be. Moreover, it has an interesting peer-review where reviewers interact, agree and vote for publications. stacksjournal.org

In this podcast, Edward Awh says studies showing benefits of "brain training" tend not to replicate. He mentions app that could be used to track change in cognitive ability (e.g., dementia onset), like routine blood pressure readings used to track change. 🧪 news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-p...

NEW: More people have left Catholicism than joined it in 21 of the 24 countries we analyzed. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/23/catholicism-has-lost-people-to-religious-switching-in-many-countries-while-protestantism-has-gained-in-some/

NEW: More people have left Catholicism than joined it in 21 of the 24 countries we analyzed. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/23/catholicism-has-lost-people-to-religious-switching-in-many-countries-while-protestantism-has-gained-in-some/

Which AI tool can flag ahead of time all the email typos this human doesn't notice until 30 seconds after I hit send?

Unfortunately, a great number of bogus respondents can sneak into opt-in online surveys, polluting the results. Among Orthodox Christians in a recent opt-in survey, about half seemed to be bogus respondents. https://orthodoxstudies.substack.com/p/what-the-quiet-revival-collapse-can

Here is what Americans consider immoral www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Say Trump is somewhat or very religious Republicans 50% White evangelicals 49% Catholics 29% Black Protestants 13% Atheists 12% Democrats 10% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/16/americans-have-become-more-likely-to-say-trump-is-not-too-or-not-at-all-religious/

Say Trump is somewhat or very religious Republicans 50% White evangelicals 49% Catholics 29% Black Protestants 13% Atheists 12% Democrats 10% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/16/americans-have-become-more-likely-to-say-trump-is-not-too-or-not-at-all-religious/

NEW: We highlight 3 changes in measurement of religious “nones” & call for organizations that make these changes to study their effects. From Matthew Conrad & me. www.surveypractice.org/article/1595...

How the number of American Sociological Association members has changed over time.

NEW: We highlight 3 changes in measurement of religious “nones” & call for organizations that make these changes to study their effects. From Matthew Conrad & me. www.surveypractice.org/article/1595...

What's the likelihood that a resolution to move @asanews.bsky.social away from for-profit publishers and toward open science data policies (where legally & ethically feasible) would have received a majority vote, were such a resolution allowed?

25% of American adults said they did not read or listen to any book in the last year—not even part of one. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

25% of American adults said they did not read or listen to any book in the last year—not even part of one. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The full dataset from Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes Survey is available for download! A great resource for anyone interested in public opinion that contains rich data from 25 countries. www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spri...

The Quiet Revival report was retracted after YouGov acknowledged problems with bogus survey respondents. In this NYT story, I comment on why the initial report got so much attention. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/britain-christian-revival-survey.html?searchResultPosition=1

It can be difficult to be sure whether surveys use: 💠Probability sampling (respondents recruited offline at random based on address/phone #) 💠Less rigorous panels anyone can join online The Ipsos MORI survey below uses the latter type of online opt-in data. www.christianpost.com/news/young-p...

Every time I look at an example of data to back up quiet revival claims it melts away on investigation. A boom in adult baptisms in France! Yep, but far from offsetting the corresponding plunge in infant baptisms. The boom is just a small % of catholics who missed an infant baptism.

Update: Today, opt-in online pollster YouGov revealed that bogus respondents biased their 2024 religion survey. Based on this survey, Bible Society's 2025 The Quiet Revival report claimed a massive surge of churchgoing in England and Wales. The report has now been retracted.

Update: Today, opt-in online pollster YouGov revealed that bogus respondents biased their 2024 religion survey. Based on this survey, Bible Society's 2025 The Quiet Revival report claimed a massive surge of churchgoing in England and Wales. The report has now been retracted.

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.