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Conrad Hackett
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Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
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"The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End" by @yunpingtong.bsky.social & me is the most read article on @sociusjournal.bsky.social over the last 6 months.

We're grateful our research has connected with readers!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our paper abstract says, "Christianity in China grew rapidly in the decades following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Some scholars and journalists claim that Christianity in China is still expanding in the twenty-first century. In this study, the authors contrast evidence for such claims with the results from two decades of survey data. In 19 nationally representative surveys conducted since the early 2000s, the authors find no clear evidence that Christianity continues to grow as a share of China’s population. Surveys conducted in the past decade indicate that about 2 percent of Chinese adults identify as Christian. Contrary to claims that Christianity is rising in popularity among young Chinese, surveys consistently find that Christian identification is more common among seniors than among young adults. Despite their limitations, the authors argue that surveys provide crucial information about the recent trajectory of China’s Christian population."
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The amazing graphic in post below is from article that was really published in Scientific Reports.

Altmetric scores reveal nearly 2k people here posted/reposted about the article.
Sure, X/Twitter has more users but Altmetric counts <100 tweets about article.
nature.altmetric.com/details/1847...
Image shows an article was mentioned by 3 blogs, 74 X users, 1 YouTuber, and 1815 Bluesky users.
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
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The European Union had a total fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...
Map shows total fertility rates in various regions of Europe in 2023.
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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The European Union had a total fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...
Map shows total fertility rates in various regions of Europe in 2023.
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
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This seems like an important story.
The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?
New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
epopppp.bsky.social
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
killgrove.bsky.social Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 5d
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
This seems like an important story.
The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?
New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Since so many people here probably just see very recent posts (or re-posts), it’s okay to do some self-loving - go ahead and hit the re-post button on your own post that may have been overlooked.
dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 5d
Could be that my posts are just bad and unengaging - but I also miss other people's posts that I'd have been interested in, so I think it's an algo thing.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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It’s hard to know who will see your posts on any site but here you can take advantage of custom feeds and recommend them to others who may share the same interest.

I follow a “demography” feed someone made that pulls any post with the word “demography” and I made a “data” feed of a few accounts.
dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 5d
Bluesky seems far worse than Twitter at ensuring your content gets seen by your proximate academic network.

Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
sobchuk.bsky.social Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 7d
Before the monstrous transformation of Twitter to X, it was considered normal to be active on academic Twitter. Now, even though we've migrated to Bluesky ("safe space"), I feel that many ppl (including myself) are less active in posting anything. Have you noticed this trend? Or am I imagining this?
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"Jihadist violence constitutes the most potent challenge to state stability in West Africa and risks making the region the epicenter of global terrorism. Last year, 51% of global terrorism-related deaths occurred in the Sahel, and al-Qaeda is on the verge of toppling the Malian junta."
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
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NEW: The share of Republicans who say politicians should avoid heated language that might encourage violence rose from 56% in early 2024 to 75% in mid-2025.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Image that reads, "83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say such language should be avoided. That is unchanged since we first asked the question in 2019. 75% of Republicans and Republican leaners also say this, up from 56% in early 2024."
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Conrad Hackett
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There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
Chart showing A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine. In the new survey, 26% of Americans say they do want an updated vaccine. Another 13% say they already got one as of late October 2025. An overwhelming majority of Republicans and Republican leaners (83%) say they don’t want an updated vaccine. In contrast, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say they want an updated vaccine, and 20% say they already got one. A quarter of Americans ages 65 and older say they already got an updated vaccine – larger than the shares in younger age groups. Older Americans are among the groups most at risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Yet older Republicans and older Democrats have sharply different views on the vaccine. About four-in-ten Democrats ages 65 and older say they already got one, and 43% say they want to get one. But 76% of Republicans ages 65 and older say they don’t want an updated vaccine.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
Chart showing A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine. In the new survey, 26% of Americans say they do want an updated vaccine. Another 13% say they already got one as of late October 2025. An overwhelming majority of Republicans and Republican leaners (83%) say they don’t want an updated vaccine. In contrast, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say they want an updated vaccine, and 20% say they already got one. A quarter of Americans ages 65 and older say they already got an updated vaccine – larger than the shares in younger age groups. Older Americans are among the groups most at risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Yet older Republicans and older Democrats have sharply different views on the vaccine. About four-in-ten Democrats ages 65 and older say they already got one, and 43% say they want to get one. But 76% of Republicans ages 65 and older say they don’t want an updated vaccine.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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NEW: The share of Republicans who say politicians should avoid heated language that might encourage violence rose from 56% in early 2024 to 75% in mid-2025.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Image that reads, "83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say such language should be avoided. That is unchanged since we first asked the question in 2019. 75% of Republicans and Republican leaners also say this, up from 56% in early 2024."
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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NEW: 52% of Latino adults in the U.S. say they worry that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported.
www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Chart showing 52% of Latino adults say they worry a lot or some that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported. This is up from 42% in March. Majorities of younger adults, Harris voters, immigrants and those with family origins in Central America now express this worry.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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For Thanksgiving week: Below are more than 5,000 reasons (in replies and quote-posts) people are thankful for social media.
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 8
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The declining desire for kids
1993: 64% of 12th graders said if they did get married, it's very likely they'd want kids
2023: 48% of 12th graders said if they did get married, it's very likely they'd want kids
Chart showing a smaller share of 12th graders now than in 1993 say they’re very likely to stay married to the same person for life if they do tie the knot. About half (51%) say this, compared with 59% in 1993. The share of 12th graders who say they’re very likely to want to have kids in this situation has also decreased over this time span (48% in 2023 vs. 64% in 1993).
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart showing the drop in the share of 12th graders who say they want to get married reflects shifting views among girls. Boys are more likely than girls to say they want to get married someday (74% vs. 61%), but this wasn’t always the case. In 1993, a larger share of girls (83%) than boys (76%) said they wanted to get married. The share of boys saying this is virtually unchanged over the 30-year period. But the share among girls dropped by 22 percentage points.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions?
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents

www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
Chart shows far more Republicans than Democrats say parents with young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines Previous Center work has found that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to support scientists playing an active role in policy debates about scientific issues. Similarly, a much larger share of Democrats (85%) than Republicans (62%) say medical scientists should have a major role in decisions about childhood vaccine policy. Views are reversed when it comes to the role of parents with young children. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say parents of young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines (71% vs. 46%). There are smaller partisan differences for the other groups we asked about. For example, 44% of Republicans say the general public should play a major role, compared with 30% of Democrats. And small shares in both parties say health insurance company leaders should have a major role (14% Republicans and 18% Democrats).
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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US adults who use sites daily
Facebook 52%
YouTube 48%
TikTok 24%
X (Twitter) 10%
Greater shares of Americans visit Facebook and YouTube daily than other sites. About half of U.S. adults say they visit each of these platforms at least once a day. This includes 37% who visit Facebook several times a day, and 33% who say the same of YouTube. About a quarter (24%) say they are daily users of TikTok. Fewer (10%) report daily use of X.
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
Chart showing that since 2016, a vast majority of U.S. adults have said healthy children should be required to get the vaccine to attend public school because of the potential risks for others when children are not vaccinated. But support for school MMR requirements dropped from 82% in 2019 to 69% in 2025. This decline is largely because of a steep slide in support among Republicans. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, 79% of Republicans said healthy children should be required to get the MMR vaccine to attend school. This share sunk to 57% in 2023, then to 52% in 2025. In contrast, Democrats’ views on school MMR requirements have remained stable, with solid majority support.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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40% of Democrats are religiously unaffiliated (Republicans are half as likely to be unaffiliated).

Across measures, Republicans report more religiousness.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/20/religiousness-varies-a-lot-by-race-among-democrats-relatively-little-among-republicans/
Chart showing U.S. adults who are Republican or lean toward the GOP are more religious than Democrats and Democratic leaners. For instance, 52% of Republicans say they pray daily, compared with 35% of Democrats. And 41% of Republicans say they go to religious services monthly or more often, compared with 24% of Democrats. Chart showing about eight-in-ten Republicans identify with a religion, including large majorities of each racial and ethnic group. Democrats are less likely than Republicans to identify with a religion. About six-in-ten Democrats do, while four-in-ten are religiously unaffiliated, meaning they identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” when asked about their religion. Most Black Democrats (79%) identify with a religion, as do smaller majorities of Hispanic Democrats (67%) and Asian Democrats (60%). White Democrats are almost evenly divided between those who identify with a religion and those who are religiously unaffiliated. Looking at Christianity
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%

Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
Chart showing change in the use of online platforms. Over the past few years, four of them have grown in overall use among U.S. adults – TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Reddit. TikTok: 37% of U.S. adults report using the platform, which is slightly up from last year and up from 21% in 2021. Instagram: Half of U.S. adults now report using it, which is on par with last year but up from 40% in 2021. WhatsApp and Reddit: About a third say they use WhatsApp, up from 23% in 2021. And 26% today report using Reddit, compared with 18% four years ago. While YouTube and Facebook continue to sit at the top, the shares of Americans who report using them have remained relatively stable in recent years.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM