📢 Call for Abstracts: Youth Transitions PhD students & early-career researchers are invited to submit proposals for the START final conference (4 Nov. 2026, University of Turin), with selected participants receiving early data access. Deadline: 15 May 2026 More info: edu.nl/uhxt3 #YouthResearch

Call for abstracts "Rethinking Youth Transitions: Values, Expectations, and Social Norms"

Call for abstracts "Rethinking Youth Transitions: Values, Expectations, and Social Norms" - Final Conference of the START project. Early-Career Researchers Session (4 November 2026 - University of Tur...

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💥New | Social scientists bring their faith into research – And it shows up in their results ✍️ @valeriarainero.bsky.social, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx #SocialScience #Faith #AcademicSky

Social scientists bring their faith into research – And it shows up in their results - LSE Impact

Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interven...

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This week, the EVS community came together in Lisbon to give further shape to the new wave! ☀️ Altogether, fruitful days that brought us closer to the EVS 2026 release (and the low flying planes)! ✈️

Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social with @ruudluijkx.bsky.social Using topic modeling on 1600+ academic articles, we provide a systematization of secularization literature and test whether researchers tend to study their own communities 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data...

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Fieldwork has begun! 🕵️ Spain is leading the way, fielding the EVS starting December 2025. EVS data have been used extensively to study Spanish society. For example, check out this chapter, outlining how Spain is secularizing: bit.ly/49BeVL9 #EVS2026 #EuropeanValues #Spain #SocialScience

A report analysing data from major cross-national #surveys on the #digital divide in Europe has been published today. The #data summary – produced for the Infra4NextGen project (@horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺) – focuses on attitudes amongst younger people compared to older respondents.

Digital divide data summary published | Infra4NextGen

A summary report analysing data from major cross-national surveys on the digital divide in Europe has been published online and in PDF format today (Thursday 4 September).

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Kicking off now in #Munich: the #ICOSCities final annual project meeting! 🙌 🇩🇪 🌍 We're thrilled to host over 80 participants from all over Europe for two days focused on cutting-edge #urban #greenhouse gas monitoring and essential #climate action services for cities. 🎯

Just Voted: #ISSP 2028 will replicate the 2018 Religion module! First fielded in 1991, this module tracks almost 40 years of religious beliefs, behaviors, and their role in society. It offers vital insights into secularization, spirituality, and religion’s impact globally.