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lordrichie.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at perilresearch.com. Social scientist on religion, politics, and nationalism. A Nietzschean Cultural Buddhist. Big foodie. Posts are mine. RT ≠ Endorsement.
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Happy Friday everyone! Sharing our next event with you on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 7 pm ET: sharemylesson.com/webinars/add... When signing up, please select the workshop titled "Addressing the Rise and Impact of Misogyny Among Students in Grades 6-12"

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‼️New Publication Alert! ‼️ My great coauthors and I have published a new paper titled "The Sacred Gun: The Religious and Magical Elements of America's Gun Culture." We examine how two gun culture ideologies intersect with traditional religious beliefs and various forms of magical thinking.

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What Pew's Religious Landscape Study shocks me is about 47% of their US adult sample favor "the federal gov should declare Christian nation." I remember when I was doing my diss using their ATP wave 84 data, the share was 14.80%

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Finally I find something Stata beats R: Stata's marginsplot does a better viz of interactive effects in multinomial models than R. Been struggling to plot predicted probabilities with 95% CIs in R for two days - Stata made it like five secs!

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American University has just been designated as an R1 prestigious research institution as part of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education! PERIL was highlighted as a notable lab in innovation and inclusive interdisciplinary research. Learn more: bit.ly/42PrWxG

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Have you noticed an uptick in openly racist remarks lately? It's not all in your head. @milleridriss.bsky.social writes: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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🚨 Excited to share our forthcoming Social Forces article. Looks at how religious adherent rates relate to murder rates over time. 🧵1/

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

We are hiring! @perilresearch.bsky.social is making some big hires this year, starting with a new Executive Director to co-lead our growth alongside me. Competitive salary, fantastic benefits, amazing team. Please circulate! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AU/job...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Calling all sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, & more: we want your cool papers & panels on religion! Check out the CFP & pitch us something to share in Minneapolis this fall!

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Lots of people may not know that most federal grant dollars- even for research, fund salaries of people like project managers, community support specialists, finance teams, etc. Millions & millions of people across the country will be furloughed or fired. I have heard of one NGO that already closed.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

I will be on @msnbc.com about 1:40 pm est, talking with Alex Witt about the pardons, extremism & violence

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Recently got many nice pictures taken with the best PhD supervisor in the world back in Nov 2024!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If she can do it, we can all do it.

submitted 38 days ago • 1753 comments

My 2023 article co-authored with Dr. Paul Froese is still relevant in today's context. Using multiple waves of national samples, we find there are two popular notions of Christian America, Christian Statism and Religious Traditionalism. 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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For @newsweek.com today, I wrote about the changing landscape of terrorism in the US and why it demands a change in our counterterrorism strategies: www.newsweek.com/terror-today...

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Misogyny and hostile sexism are predictors of support for political violence or of willingness to engage in it. Beliefs in a hierarchy of superiority, beliefs in the inferiority of women drive support for political violence. @milleridriss.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Many things happened to me in the past year. Luckily I survived and learned from anxieties and many negative experiences, found a perfect job and joined a fantastic team, moved to a new city, and am still loved by my friends, colleagues, and their cute dogs!

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okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G

submitted 100 days ago • 68 comments

Reposting our starter pack on “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism” go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz

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“The more you shame people for what they’re espousing, the more they’re driven underground deeper into online communities who welcome them with open arms,” says @milleridriss.bsky.social of @perilresearch.bsky.social.

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What life would look like without cute doggo

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