Jeanet Sinding Bentzen

An inflection point? 🤔
"The share of people telling pollsters they are irreligious has stopped growing" in many countries (cites @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social, Ryan Burge, @pewresearch.org's Stephanie Kramer & Gregory Smith, Pippa Norris, David Campbell, Andreas Sandberg).
The Economist, June 14 2025

Hi folks!

Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?

Call for ASREC conference is out!

Preceded by grad student workshop.

Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.

Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org

Hi folks!

Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?

Call for ASREC conference is out!

Preceded by grad student workshop.

Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.

Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org

They probably did so by increasing the number of religious nonprofit organizations:

We document that a series of policies in the US have strengthened religiosity and conservative-religious social views. Main effect on church attendance:

Oh, more interested in the paper? Link to the paper: tinyurl.com/5444xrk2

DM25 — OUTDOOR SYDFYN

Link to the Danish Ice Swimming Championships: www.outdoorsydfyn.com/dmis

Pretty productive week!!!

I won four gold medals at the Danish Championships in ice swimming and received a conditional accept at the AEJ: Applied (with my wonderful colleagues Alessandro Pizzigolotto (@chickymonkeys) and Lena Sperling (@lenalsperling)).

Quantifying History (3 ECTS) - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History How can quantitative methods allow historians to make sense of the ever-increasing wealth of digitalised sources, both numeric and textual? How can historians use quantitative and computational method...

Teaching a PhD course on "Quantifying history" for the Norwegian Research School in History, together with Gregory Ferguson-Cradler (Trondheim, February 3-7). www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... Apply for enrollment before Dec 1st.

Chat GPT prompt: “Based on what you know about me make an image about what you think my life looks like”

harris v trump voting Religion Protestant or other Christian (42%) 36% Catholic (22%) 40% Jewish (2%) 78% Something else (10%) 59% None (24%) 71% Religion among white voters Protestant/Other Christian (30%) 26% Catholic (15%) 35% Jewish (2%) 80% Something else (5%) 52%elirel None (17%) 71% White born-again or evangelical Christian? Yes (22%) 17% No (78%)

there is a major religion story not being included in these election postmortems

Re-sharing the #econhist Starter Pack for new arrivals:

go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv

Users over time chart for the past 60 days starting at 6.22M users on August 22nd, jumping sharply at the end of august, then steadily increasing up until 3 days ago where we have another sharp jump.

Wild to realize Bluesky has more than doubled its user count in <2 months to 12.5M users.

Growth is kinda crazy, the spikes are significantly larger now and despite having 6M users 2 months ago we're still capable of this kind of massive growth in such a short time.

Glad to have you all here.

The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

Marie Curie didn't necessarily aim to hire women in her lab, but she didn't have anything AGAINST women, and so ended up creating a network of more than 45 women trainees who changed (and are still changing) the course of science. By @clarakm.bsky.social with Dava Sobel on her new book 🧪

Here's an excerpt from my decision letter on a paper that may have cited non-existent papers hallucinated by an LLM.

I hope it's fair. This is uncharted territory for me.

How should you deal with journal rejections? Some suggestions below.

I have written a post on the work of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson.
When assessing their contribution, it is important to appreciate how much their perspective has extended the scope and relevance of economics compared to where it was 20 years ago.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/expanding-...

So happy for these guys, who are great minds and great people, but also for the field of Political Economy!

Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy This article documents that indigenous democratic practices are associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association is conditioned on the relative strength of the indigenous ....

Yay! @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social is on bsky.

Here is Jeanet's EJ paper with Jim Robinson and Jacob Gerner Hariri.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...