There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival. My new post:

Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading

Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.

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Researchers (including students) are invited to apply for funding for projects relying on Pew's recent global religion datasets. Details here: 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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So happy to see Matt's EXCELLENT paper out in the world. I originally agreed to pitch in with sermon transcript analyses largely because I have a soft spot for grad students with overly ambitious plans, and I'm so impressed by how it all turned out.

Matthew I. Billet@matthewibillet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New pre-print analyzing 25,000 Christian sermon transcripts across the USA. Churches account for most systematic variance in sermon content, geographic region accounts for none. We identify niches in sermon content that may guide religious competition in USA. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Any influencers who'll never take a partisan or advocacy stance wanna team up with an expert whose awkward personality, middle-aged suburban mom status and penchant for taking being genuine too far make her a bad candidate for sharing research through short videos? 😬

In my 9 years of chit chat about my work at Pew Research Center, people have consistently been surprised that: - Pew is our benefactors' surname, not an acronym or reference to church seating - Only around 170 of us are on staff (<100 researchers) - As a 501c3, we give all of our work away for free

A majority of U.S. immigrants are concentrated in only a dozen metro areas www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Immigrants from most regions are more likely to hold a Bachelor's degree or higher than native-born adults in the U.S. Nearly 20% of U.S. workers are immigrants, but their numbers are declining.

The U.S. immigrant population grew at a record-breaking pace throughout the past few years but has shrunk since January, marking its first decline since the 1960s. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.

As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.

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@anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Everyday Revenge

We are interested in stories of everyday revenge—cases where you successfully got back at someone after being wronged. Please think up an experience of when you took revenge and tell us about it. Pl...

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I'd like to broaden this to "what really should be common knowledge but isn't" and point out that "life expectancy" is almost always shorthand for LE AT BIRTH. LE extends with age. A modest but literal majority of 70 year olds living in the U.S. today are expected to see 85.

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · last yr.

There's a lot of "what's common knowledge in your field that surprises outsider threads" I want a "what really should be common knowledge in your field but isn't thread" I'll go first. The "Be a voter" GOTV language finding does *not* replicate

This post immediately brought 3 things to mind: 1. The Census Bureau's mission to count everyone is what enables us to study the size and characteristics of the unauthorized immigrant population.

Soon after we released our report on the religious composition of migrants around the world last year, I had this conversation on BBC Four about our results and how the public discourse on the topic tends to shed more heat than light that's just as relevant today. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Where religiously unaffiliated people are in the majority 🇨🇳 China (90%) 🇨🇿 Czech Republic (73%) 🇰🇵 North Korea (73%) 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (71%) 🇲🇴 Macao (68%) 🇻🇳 Vietnam (68%) 🇯🇵 Japan (57%) 🇳🇱 Netherlands (54%) 🇺🇾 Uruguay (52%) 🇳🇿 New Zealand (51%) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The number of Christian-majority countries fell between 2010 and 2020

Countries that lost their Christian majorities all saw growing percentages of religiously unaffiliated people.

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Well, well, well, if it isn't the religiously unaffiliated constituting about 28% of U.S. adults, just like in every one of the past several years. www.pewresearch.org/methods/fact...

National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)

NPORS is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center used to to produce benchmark estimates for several topics.

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

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Sankey graphs depicting movement of individual voters are my favorite

John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · last yr.

A chart you can spend some time with: How a Biden victory in 2020 turned into a Trump win in 2024 From new @pewresearch.org study of validated voters: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Hey there, Bluesky! We are excited to share our data and insights here with you, and so are our researchers: go.bsky.app/3QzdR9p What would you like to see from us? Drop suggestions below!

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John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello undergraduates! Pew Research Center is now accepting applications for our paid summer internship program in Washington, DC. Our full list of internships is here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center... Applications are due Feb. 7.

Our post election survey finds Democrats more pessimistic about their party's future than at any point in the past eight years: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

After Trump’s victory, Democrats are more pessimistic about their party’s future

The partisan gap in Republican and Democratic views of their parties’ futures (35 percentage points) is much larger than after any recent election.

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From the Pew Research Center archives (October 2021): "Republican- and Democratic-led states alike require hundreds of thousands of their citizens – infants, toddlers and schoolchildren, mostly – to be vaccinated against a panoply of diseases." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...