Sam Stroope

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Is there an "R Wrapped" for my most used functions/packages from 2025? ...maybe an appreciation video from the package author too?

Not completely surprised but the fact that attendance didn't show up stronger in the results...

Religious affiliations, religious practices, and health behaviors in US South Asians AbstractObjectives. This study examined how religious affiliations and religious practices are related to health behaviors and clinical health behavior-rel

🚨Excited to share our new paper
✔️ #Yoga = ⬆️ health (e.g., Life’s Essential 8, diet, smoking, BMI, alcohol)
✔️ Religious attendance = ⬆️ ideal diet
✔️ Religious attendance = ⬇️ alcohol
@bvkent.bsky.social @alka-kanaya.bsky.social @nilayshah.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/abm/...

Ungated preprint link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Our new longitudinal study of religious change and murder rates just went up at Social Forces. Nice to finally see it in print: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... @bumblebacon.bsky.social @crimlizzie.bsky.social @sfjournal.bsky.social #CrimSky #socsky #polrel #SociologyofReligion #ReligiousStudies

Pre-print of our new longitudinal analysis of religious shifts and murder rates. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Alternate link: osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨 Download a copy “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” [https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nr6q5_v1] for our motivation for the analysis and a discussion of the findings. 8/8

We draw on Institutional Anomie Theory’s ideas of economic dominance of institutions and Durkheim’s insight about religious distinctions to understand these patterns. 7/

📊 The total effect (both direct and indirect) for changes in the evangelical adherent rate is the largest in the model. 6/

📊 Increases in the Catholic adherent rate and the evangelical adherent rate are indirectly associated with increases in homicide, while increases in the mainline Protestant adherent rate are indirectly associated with decreases in homicide. 5/

📊 We find that that increases in the evangelical adherent rate are directly associated with increases in homicide rates, while increases in the Catholic adherent rate are directly associated with decreases in homicide rates. 4/

… in “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” we use national longitudinal county-level data spanning four time points (1980 to 2010) and fixed effects spatial modeling which parcels effects into direct and indirect (spillover) effects. 3/

The study asks whether effects differ for rates of Catholics, evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Latter-Day Saints. To answer this … 2/

🚨 Excited to share our forthcoming Social Forces article. Looks at how religious adherent rates relate to murder rates over time. 🧵1/

Have you migrated from Evernote to another app for organizing notes? I've used Evernote for years but have decided to switch. Any suggestions on an app to migrate to are welcomed.

What colleges in the US or Canada ...
- are in a walkable place and
- have easy access to nature by bike?
... my 16-year-old wants to know.

Congrats, Matt!