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Academics: Have you ever accepted an invite to review an article, read it, submitted a review and then had the publisher keeep sending invites as if you didn't respond at all?

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NEW: David Voas argues religion is declining, not merely changing. Religious beliefs are fading among the affiliated and the unaffiliated. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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This is why I'm hard to reach by text. I purposely put away the phone. The crazy thing is that everyone gets mad at you for not being instantly available.

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Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Based on formal religious identity, China is the least religious country in the world. Just 1-in-10 Chinese adults self-identify with a religion. China has the largest count of people – about 1 billion adults – who claim no formal religious affiliation. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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New from @pewresearch.org: a look at global religious nationalism. As part of this, we asked about the influence certain sacred texts (Bible, Quran, etc. depending on country) should--and currently do--have on the country's laws. The U.S. stands out from other high-income countries shorturl.at/YQNot

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Say religion mostly hurts society Netherlands 54% Australia 52% UK 51% Sweden 51% France 45% Canada 44% Japan 42% Chile 26% US 24% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

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In our new @pewresearch.org study, just 6% of US adults are classified as Christian nationalists.

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NEW PEW RESEARCH REPORT: Muslim nationalists in Indonesia 46% Turkey 11% Hindu nationalists in India 24% Christian nationalists in Kenya 32% US 6% Jewish nationalists in Israel 9% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

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“we have little power to tackle publications from paper mills. We depend on institutes to investigate suspicious actions by scientists and on journal editors and publishers to correct or retract the articles that we flag…scientists, journals and publishers are woefully underprepared to do this work”

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Bluementum

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The proportion of Canada’s population who reported being Muslim has more than doubled in 20 years, rising from 2.0% (579,640 people) in 2001 to 4.9% (1,775,715 people) in 2021. www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7...

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China Christian Times reported views of 9 Chinese religion experts: 7 said Christian counts around them had decreased a lot (3) slightly (1) or hadn't gone up or down (3) 2 said Christian counts were up slightly 0 said Christian counts were up a lot h/t: @ssnerd60.bsky.social

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Is China about to become the world's most Christian nation? Judging by the share of self-identified Christians in surveys (about 2%), maybe not. Of course, 2-3% of China's population is many people. We dig into the issue in our new open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Trump’s personality is compatible with the programs’ messaging on masculinity, according to Alice Marwick. “It’s like, don’t be ashamed of your base manly desires. Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty, don’t let anyone take you down. You should be proud & strong, & go after people criticizing you."

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

New comer here I'll talk about my field of expertise. -geography -history -religious demography (and its propaganda) -linguistic -life in Singapore Follow me to learn more #religion #history #islam #hinduism #demography #singapore #immigrant

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New China Christian Daily story about our paper analyzing survey data on Christianity in China chinachristiandaily.com/news/world/2... Our paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I'm at a juggling festival in Madison, Wisconsin. Here's the elusive three-club multiplex hatchet throw. (You don't want to know how long it took to figure this one out.)

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Some say China is on track to have a Christian majority by midcentury. In his presidential address to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Fenggang Yang said the number of Protestants will grow 7-10 %/yr, making up a majority of the country by 2050. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Fenggang Yang is a widely quoted scholar of religion in China. He's not on Bluesky but you can read his responses to our latest article on the other site x.com/FenggangYang... Our article journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Some say China is on track to have a Christian majority by midcentury. In his presidential address to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Fenggang Yang said the number of Protestants will grow 7-10 %/yr, making up a majority of the country by 2050. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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‘Demographic divergence means there will be 50% more workers in lower-income countries than higher-income countries within a generation, according to UN data.’ www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

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Has the growth of Christianity in China come to an end? Read this new paper that analyzed survey data (2006-2021) to find out: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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OUR NEW STUDY: The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End Free open access article published in Socius: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Bluesky wrapped: a 🧵 of my posts that generated the most conversation on this site. Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land! But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.

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"The FDA has approved nearly a thousand artificially intelligent products."

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Snegovaya lays out her arguments pretty clearly in this piece. I’m sympathetic to the need for qual on this topic, but not to the argument that there’s a large pool of hidden war opponents in Russia. Nothing quantitative or qualitative bears that out. www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...

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Interesting thread summarizing discussion happening now about the reliability of survey data in Russia.

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Have you ever wondered: Which antibiotics are most common? How much is used in livestock? How do antibiotics even work? Which countries monitor antibiotic resistance? We have a new page on Our World in Data with data on all of these & more! Check it out: ourworldindata.org/antibiotics

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments