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What Makes Them Tick Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence

My first post on my new Peace & Violence Substack:

“What Makes Them Tick: Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence”

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Easily one of the top charts of all time

Survey Associate, Methodology Pew Research Center Organization Overview Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts publi...

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Metro is planning for fully automated trains The transit agency is focusing on modernization.

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Chart from Economist on unemployment in Southern and Northern Europe since 2005 now converging.

Amazing chart with horrible acronyms - for the first time in my living memory, unemployment in Northern Europe and Southern Europe seems to have converged. Seemed unthinkable during the Eurozone crisis.

Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.

There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival.

My new post:

Internships Our 2026 summer internship program will be open to applications January 16-February 11, 2026. Our paid summer internship program is a learning and

Attention undergrads! @pewresearch.org has more than a dozen paid internships for rising juniors and seniors this summer in Washington, DC.

Find more info here: www.pewresearch.org/about/intern...

Apply here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science. Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it. Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) Education/Training/Experience College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org!
- religion
- digital
- social trends
- data journalism
- global
- news
- internet
- AI
- admin
- race
- science
- methods
- politics

Apply soon!
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To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

I will be teaching a short course on survey experiments at the @recsm.bsky.social winter school. More information: www.upf.edu/web/survey/2...

Data Archivist Position Summary Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessib...

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

Nicht Algorithmen oder Plattformen allein sind schuld an der zunehmenden Polarisierung – es ist komplexer. @ajungherr.bsky.social erforscht, u. a. am bidt, wie digitale Medien politische Kommunikation verändern.

Mehr zu seiner Person & Forschung im Porträt: www.bidt.digital/im-portraet-...

I guess StackOverflow is done.

Ni mérito, ni solidaridad, ni futuro: os dieron un master y se quedaron con los pisos Os prometieron que esfuerzo y solidaridad tendrían recompensa. No la hay. Y las ideologías dominantes gestionan la escasez, no desbloquean oportunidades.

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Esto de @jorgegalindo.bsky.social pero muy, muy fuerte.

De alguien que se fue y no volvió.

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

I cannot readily imagine a relative advantage of sampling survey/experiment data from an LLM to sampling known models/distributions if we cannot meaningfully define a population LLMs sample or formalize the sampling scheme. Idk what we can learn abt a model/method without clarity abt what we put in.

Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

I love this data essay by some of my @pewresearch.org colleagues looking at how the ways that the U.S. Census has measured race and ethnicity have changed over the country's history and how they're poised to change again in 2030.

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

Unha externalidade da IA da que tal vez o público xeral non é consciente pero que a min me toca a moral todos os días é o efecto dos bots de IA que varren constantemente Internet en busca de contido. Nótase moito en webs de proxectos de código aberto.

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We'd love to hear your ideas for overlooked or understudied topics. ⬇️

Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵

In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.

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Understanding error bars in charts Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with error bars.

In our charts, we sometimes illustrate the margin of error through error bars, also called confidence intervals. But what do they mean? How should they be interpreted?

Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with error bars.

How people in 24 countries feel about their political parties People in many countries see at least one party favorably – but in 15 countries, no party we asked about gets positive ratings from a majority of adults.

How people in 24 countries feel about their political parties

Screenshot of a job posting for a writer/editor position at Pew Research Center in Washington, DC.

Come work with me as a writer/editor/data journalist at @pewresearch.org: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan YouTube video by Killian102

Many times. I’m almost positive Gordon Duncan was the first. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwD...

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Why and how we’re weighting surveys for past presidential vote This piece explains why, when and how we are weighting our surveys on Americans’ past vote.

NEW from @pewresearch.org: "Since 2014, we have adjusted the surveys we conduct on our American Trends Panel (ATP) to account for party affiliation. As of June 2025, we are adjusting our surveys to match the results of the 2024 presidential election, too."

Carmucha VST, a primeira ferramenta virtual de percusión tradicional galega - Praza Pública

🥁 Carmucha VST, a primeira ferramenta virtual de percusión tradicional galega
Lijas Virtual Sampler e MOB Studios lanzan Carmucha VST, un 'plugin' de percusión tradicional galega, "libre, accesible e totalmente gratuíto"
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Vin (pero aínda non lin) a explicación sobre O Riós. Non atopo case nada dos outros. 😞

Bar chart from a Pew Research Center study showing that in the fall of 2020, two-thirds of U.S. churches heard at least one sermon mentioning that year's election. The study is based on a subset of U.S. churches and is not representative of all religious congregations.

IRS to allow churches to endorse political candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u... (via @nytimes.com)

Politics is already common at the pulpit: In the fall of 2020, two-thirds of churches studied by @pewresearch.org heard a sermon mentioning the election: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...