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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 28/03/2025

🚨New Paper Klaxon 🚨 Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief. Now out at PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇 1/ 11 🧪 #atheism #religion #culture #evolution

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Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief | PNAS

We find evidence of belief in belief—intuitive preferences for religious belief over atheism, even among atheist participants—across eight comparat...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism

The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Researchers who study religion: which specialty journals do you publish in or cite? Here's a publicly editable/shareable list of (so far) 32 journals covering the disciplinary water front: what's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Speciality journals for scientific study of religion, spirituality, or non-religion

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The ARDA is the world's largest online religion data archive, with a lot of really great resources that bring that data to life for those who are interested in their communities, states, our nation, and the world. Subscribing to our newsletter (2 emails a month) will keep you up to date!

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Jordan LaBouff @jlabouff.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Gorgeous day in Rocky Mountain National Park!

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Jordan LaBouff @jlabouff.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Meow Wolf Denver was pretty great

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Jordan LaBouff @jlabouff.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

What a horrible idea. I really hope this doesn't pass.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is a long but clarifying read by political scientists who have studied the rise and fall of democracies around the world: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11/02/2025

as a medievalist, as a church historian, let me say that within the long history of Christianity, I cannot emphasize enough how actually normal this is. this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII! this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.

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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trump's planning to sign an executive order to combat anti-Christian bias. In a recent article in @psychscience.bsky.social, my colleagues (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social) & I show that such political appeals can serve as potent racial dog whistles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Jordan LaBouff @jlabouff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We've been redesigning our Honors curriculum at UMaine. Next Fall I get to teach my new Honors 101 - Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Culture, and Identity. Check out the course trailer - youtu.be/jWw-D04AADw

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Honors 101 - Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Culture, and Identity - Course Trailer

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