Research funders: help shape future support for open funding metadata. Share your organisation’s practices, readiness, and challenges in this questionnaire by 31 July 2026: opnform.com/forms/wg3-fu...

For the love of durable access, don't archive scholarly stuff on regular websites. I'm looking at you, www.sci-gaia.eu and www.openscienceofreligion.com, today's selection of things that now resolve to Indonesian gambling sites.

Developmentalists: a new three-year fellowship (up to $300K) from LEGO Foundation and SSRC for "early- and mid-career researchers whose work can strengthen understanding of how children thrive across diverse contexts." Deadline July 31, 2026. www.ssrc.org/programs/the...

The LEGO Foundation Fellowship

The LEGO Foundation Fellowship is a global initiative supporting researchers working to deepen our understanding of how children thrive. Spanning disciplines from education and psychology to public he...

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Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

Funding opportunity: $10,000 seed grants from SSRC for 6-month research projects on "Innovation in Religion and Spirituality". Deadline July 1, 2026. www.ssrc.org/programs/rel...

Innovation in Religion and Spirituality Seed Grants

The Religion and the Public Sphere program at the Social Science Research Council aims to foster research on the wider implications of new forms of religious and spiritual life. This program is offere...

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$3K mini-grants available from Pew Research Center to prepare papers reusing their data on religion. Deadline to apply (not to write the paper) is March 2. www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/s...

Seeking research using recent Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures datasets

To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new

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Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please share: 2 weeks remain to submit a proposal for $3k for writing a paper using recent Pew-Templeton global datasets. We will support 19 projects. Submit by Monday, March 2. https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

How can research funders ask their grantees to share their work for others to reuse and build upon? Funders interested in exploring an open science policy should check out this @cos.io webinar: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Demystifying Open Science Policy: A Funder-Focused Discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join the Center for Open Science (COS) for a deep dive into open science policymaking, featuring insights from research funders. We will be joined by representatives from two forward-thinking funding ...

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Funding opportunity: TWCF is requesting proposals for up to $100K to plan a larger empirical project (up to $2.5M, considered separately) on polarization between and within societies and cultures in a global context. Deadline is March 6, 2026. www.templetonworldcharity.org/our-prioriti...

Listening and Learning in a Polarized World Global Request for Planning Grants

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Listening and Learning in a Polarized World Global Request for Planning Grants Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) is pleased…

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Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Funding opportunity for empirical ($250k) or philosophical/theological ($100k) research projects on the "virtues and vices of spiritual yearning". Deadline for LOIs is February 1, 2026. aarweb.org/award/virtue...

PSA: That thing you got your kid for Christmas: USB charger blocks not included.

The #CivicScienceFellows program is accepting applications for 2026-27 host partners! The new cohort of #CivicScience Fellows will focus on change: change rooted in science, change rooted in communications, and change rooted in policy. Applications are due December 15.

$25K fellowships for early career researchers studying the intersection of psychotherapy and relational virtues (e.g., gratitude, humility, forgiveness). Deadline Dec 15, 2025. mstargsu.substack.com/p/rfp-flouri...

RFP: Flourishing and Relational Virtues in Psychotherapy

Flourishing and Relational Virtues in Psychotherapy

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Musical serendipity: quoting Mike Tyson while writing a grant proposal while Charlie Hunter comes up on shuffle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CA...

Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth

YouTube video by Charlie Hunter - Topic

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Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org

Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement

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If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

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In case anyone else is overdue on deleting your academia.edu account, here's how (and why):

Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

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Dr. Nick Posegay@nposegay.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

We did something radical that shouldn’t feel radical: we stopped funding science built for journals so that we can reimagine scientific publishing. First @arcadiascience.com. Now at @asterainstitute.bsky.social.

What search terms do you use in interdisciplinary literature searches to narrow your scope to (a) empirical work (vs. literature reviews or theory, say) and/or (b) research involving religion? docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Add your terms or comment here. 1 / 2

religion and/or empirical research search terms

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Vogon rest stop confirmed. doi.org/10.3847/2041...

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

The Navigation Fund's open science funding portfolio is now up and running with two RFPs, one for OS meetings and one for OS and AI. (See onward links at the bottom of this call for more.) It's all looking encouragingly nimble, and with a substantial annual payout for OS. os.nav.fund/meeting-fund/

Deadlines are May 30:

Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications! -Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ... -ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN... -Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

"The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics" www.nber.org/papers/w33729

The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Rapid response grants for cancelled NSF education-related grantees. Great work Spencer Foundation!!

Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel@drsl.bsky.social · last yr.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Great to see senior academics in cognitive development calling out current threats to foundational scientific study of how children learn and think while also praising collaborative innovations like the Open Science Framework and the Developing Belief Network.

The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times

Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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🛠️ Calling all open source developers! COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF). Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you. Proposals due: May 14th, 2025. 🔗 http://cos.io/pose #DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience

Funding for Open-Source Development to Advance OSF Integrations

The Center for Open Science (COS) is seeking proposals for open-source development projects that will improve usability, interoperability, and research workflows on the Open Science Framework (OSF)—a free, open-source platform maintained by COS to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle.

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Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University

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