Adam H. Smiley

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Who is more religious: religiously unaffiliated Latin Americans or European Christians? We compared these groups on three measures:
🌟 Belief in God
🙏 Frequency of prayer
🤲 If they consider religion to be very important in their lives.

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Oh interesting: the MN National Guard had publicly promoted that, if deployed, they would wear bright vests to differentiate themselves from DHS, who wear camo despite not being in the U.S military — and it appears they really did!

In 13% of special issues produced by several major publishers over the past decade, the guest editor contributed more than 1/3 of the papers themselves

As usual, MDPI and Frontiers journals are among the worst offenders.

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Felt compelled to say something about the harms of self-serving politicians, so I wrote my first ever op-ed which was just published in The Tennessean! (Un-paywalled version in replies, below) www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

That was maybe the most obvious handball of the season so far… no clue how they don’t give that

Trump: NATO members to face tariffs increasing to 25% until a Greenland purchase deal is struck Trump recently hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their drug prices.

A downside to literally no one in this Administration understanding basic economics is that "we're going to raise tariffs until you give up Greenland" is the econ version of "I'm going to repeatedly kick myself in the testicles until you do what I want"

www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/t...

“ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.“

Circular Pew Research Center logo; Spiral John Templeton Foundation logo

@pewresearch.org, with support from the @templetonfdn.bsky.social, invites researchers at all career stages (including doctoral students) to submit proposals for new research publications using recent Global Religious Futures datasets.

🗓️ Apply by March 2, 2026

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US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.

In 2026!??? 🥹
www.reuters.com/world/us-sen...

Bukayo Saka on what his faith means to him ❤️

Sponsored by our great friends New Balance

Had a blast at my first IRPS (Institute for Research on Psychology and Spirituality) meeting at Biola University - my alma mater!

I still haven’t forgiven the Steelers for stealing Super Bowl XL from us😡

Thanks!!

Do you use positron instead of RStudio? And if so, what are the main benefits of it for you? Ive never used positron instead

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

Had a blast at my first IRPS (Institute for Research on Psychology and Spirituality) meeting at Biola University - my alma mater!

Macclesfield players celebrate their second goal against Crystal Palace infront of the home crowd.

1909 - Macclesfield are the first non-league team to eliminate the FA Cup holders since Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the 1908-09 first round. Fairytale.

I'm sure someone else has suggested this, but it's time for mandatory DOIs in reference lists. This will make it easier to identify hallucinated references

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

"We consistently found null results, not just for overall samples but for sub-groups that have been hypothesized as the most likely to be affected by moral reframing...the observed data are 100x more likely to occur under the null hypothesis (of no effect) than the moral foundations hypothesis."

Postdoctoral positions: Our team at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is accepting applications for up to two postdoc positions, starting in Fall 2026. Priority deadline is Jan 15. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know!

Check out our recent Character and Context piece explaining how reframing political ideas (including facts!) to be more self disclosing can bridge political divides.
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