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Are you traveling to watch the eclipse on Monday?

In Uganda, controversy over census agency reluctance to separately classify born-again and Pentecostal Christians dispatch.ug/2024/04/06/cen…

Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…

View Trump favorably White evangelicals 67% White Catholics 51% View Trump unfavorably Atheists 88% Black Protestants 80% Jews 79% Hispanic Catholics 66% Muslims 64% pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

I'm not sure how to best compare engagement across platforms. Responses to the post below on: Bluesky (6k followers): 28 reposts, 66 likes Mastodon (14k followers): 28 reposts, 27 likes Twitter (139k followers, blue check recently reinstated for free): 16 reposts, 30 likes

Feels like bots are getting lazy with profile pics, handles, and bios. My blue check is attracting hundreds of lazy bot followers.

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I'm moving to an office with much less space for books. I said goodbye to 20% of my books. Then I tried replacing some that remain with Kindle versions, but many important works aren't available on Kindle at any cost. Advice?

US "nones" are young. Non-religious identity is sticky. Rates of leaving religion have risen. Unless these dynamics change a lot, "no religion" numbers will rise. For wonky reasons, estimates of "no religion" share vary and sometimes seem to plateau or even dip.

Simon and Garfunkel were right, it turns out. Americans are more likely to get local news about weather than any other topic: youtu.be/5biEjyXNa2o?si…

Great post from Dr Tabitha Stanmore time.com/6980787/mystic…

How did the # of Bahraini citizens grow 25% from 2010 to 2020? Fertility isn't high. Did a lot of people become citizens? GCC countries have large migrant worker populations. But looking at 2010 and 2020 numbers from Bahrain's census, I'm surprised there's more growth among

How did the number of Bahraini citizens grow 25% from 2010 to 2020? Fertility isn't high. GCC countries have large migrant worker populations, but according to Bahrain's 2010 and 2020 census data, there was a bigger increase in the # of citizens (+144k) than non-nationals

Intriguing quote: “I’ve just kind of been focusing on my individual spirituality, whatever that might mean,” she said, “or even just not doing anything spiritual at all.” nytimes.com/2024/06/12/opi…

For about 15 years, Pew Research Center has conducted regional studies of religion around the world. We *just* released our final study in this series. It's a fascinating survey of religion & spirituality in East Asia: pewresearch.org/religion/2024/…

Our brand new Pew Research Center dataset measuring religion in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam is available *now* for download and analysis: pewresearch.org/dataset/east-a…

Check out our NEW report on the religious composition of migrants around the world! We found that nearly half of migrants globally are Christian – a much higher share than they make up in the overall population (30%). pewresearch.org/religion/2024/…

Haven’t spent much time on social media this summer. Checking in, Bluesky seems to be making steady progress in adding features. Lots of new users in the last week, especially due to Twitter shutdown in Brazil. Many familiar folks still here.

77% of conservative Republicans prefer bigger houses in drivable communities 65% of liberal Democrats prefer smaller houses in more walkable places pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…