@gwurm.bsky.social
Visiting assistant professor @BYU. PhD from Notre Dame. Study Political Depolarization, family, and religion.
New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to examine moralization in ~2B Twitter/X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts.
Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics
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New publication in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with Delia Baldassarri. We show that in the US, social relationships remain politically heterogeneous, and that heterogeneous close ties and acquaintances lower partisan animosity through distinct mechanisms. A thread on the main findings:
09.07.2025 11:28 β π 31 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Congratulations! That's awesome to hear. They'll be fortunate to have you.
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Itβs that time of year for Murray Davisβ mediation on what makes a theory βinterestingβ and, therefore, footnoted. Sadly , many of my earlier theory papers were written too formally and thus may be uninteresting (tho it is possible they are just uninteresting, too)
#sociology
A bipartite citation analysis of people thanked in ASA publications from seven sections, spanning pubs from 1979-the present.
"Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations" with @mayrl.bsky.social is inching along. Behold: automated collection, parsing, and matching of acknowledgments from seven ASA sections, covering award-winning publications (and a few comparators) spanning 1979-present! Fine-tuning still, but looks face-valid!
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Since this is backβ¦
Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and itβs undervalued at every level
Lake Institute on Faith & Giving is accepting applications for their Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship-a $30,000 fellowship for ABD's working on religion and generosity broadly conceived. Please consider applying and pass along to any ABD's who might be interested!
lakeinstitute.org/research/fel...
New article: Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners
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#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding
NEW PAPER
Main finding: Contemporary Christian nationalism in the United States is situated in a constellation of social fears about ethnoracial purity, as well as about the perceived loss of individual autonomy.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett π§΅π
28.11.2024 19:06 β π 3572 π 1169 π¬ 129 π 139Congrats on your book. Look forward to reading it!
23.11.2024 16:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Introductions and weβre off.
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