Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years Iāve had SIX messages from people who saved a kidās life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
Is a religious revival happening?
Watch this video for answers from me, Kati Tervo-NiemelƤ (University of Eastern Finland), Joel Thiessen (Ambrose University), Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (University of Waterloo) & David Voas (University College London).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glgPhZ01-O0
Recent media stories in a number of countries suggest that there is a religious revival taking place, with increased worship attendance and young people expr...
Are enough births occurring to replace expected deaths? We introduce the ābirths observed / births neededā ratio as a simple indicator of demographic sustainability ā showing why similar fertility rates can imply very different population futures.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures.
This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.
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
When researchers asked LLMs whether they should switch between religions, LLMs tended to encourage becoming Catholic & shedding atheist & Jehovah's Witness identities.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22975
NEW QUIZ: Where do you fit in the American political typology? Please share your results!
NEW QUIZ: Where do you fit in the American political typology? Please share your results!
Conrad Hackett
Conrad Hackett
Here's a great (free) training opportunity in survey research for undergrads & recent college grads this summer
surveydatascience.isr.umich.edu/education/un...
How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious "Nones"
no paywall: sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology groups is your best match.
