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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharing an update to The Loyalty Trap from Eyal Press at the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... ...Alyssa Lareau quit the Civil Rights Division last year. She recalls asking herself, “Am I enabling a fascist regime?”

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wonderful talk from Pippa Norris on her book The Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding. The length of populist leaders' rule, and the structure of the government - the amount of checks and balances they are accountable to (president vs. prime minister) -matter in degree of democratic backsliding

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This presidential administration is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to remigrate (word derivative from white nationalist ethnic cleansing campaigns) people to countries with documented histories of human rights abuses: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation

Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.

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Brian Steensland @bsteens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Colleagues and I have argued that digital tech has facilitated religious unbundling. Evidence here points to relevant evidence: undermining religious authority, aligning with individuation, and serving as affordance for à la care religious goods. www.psypost.org/new-study-li...

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New study links the spread of the internet to a global decline in religious identity

As internet access spreads across the globe, formal religious affiliation tends to fall. A new study of 81 countries links three decades of digital expansion to a steady decline in traditional religio...

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am so excited that my paper with Mariana Costa Silveira is out today comparing acts of moral courage among Brazilian civil servants under Bolsonaro and American civil servants under Trump's first administration. lnkd.in/g-c6GpNt I learned so much from this paper and from Mariana and 1/4

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What an interesting paper: "Temporal Misalignment & Unequal Agency: What Terminal Cancer Patients Teach Us about Time & Inequality." - finding “temporal misalignment”—a mismatch b/w temporalities enacted by individual actions & imposed by institutions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The committee also recognizes @craigrawlings.bsky.social, @erinfjohnston.bay.social, and David E. Eagle for their article "Peer Networks and Ideological Consistency: How Student Communities Facilitate Belief Liberalization in Higher Education" with an Honorable Mention.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Jaeeun Kim of the University of Michigan has been awarded the Distinguished Article Award for article "Getting saved from illegality and unbelief? Religious asylum, migration dreams, and Christian conversion." Migration Studies 13.3 (2025)

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Congratulations to Ilana M. Horwitz who has been award the Early Career Award. This award recognizes an early-career scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the sociological study of religion.

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Great connections. Thanks for sharing Mark!

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So true! Wonderful to develop this paper with such a theoretical dream team!

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is what I loved about @jlkucinskas.bsky.social’s book The Mindul Elite. Among a number of things, it shows how orgs can and do co-opt individual self-care techniques like “mindfulness” for their employees, rather than transforming the systems burning their employees out.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

With Prof. Jason E. Shelton's The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion (@nyupress.bsky.social, 2024) as honorable mention.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

After reviewing the 18 submissions, the Distinguished Book Award committee converged was pleased to name Prof. Ryan Calder's The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024) as this year's winner.

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m so honored that the Academy of Management’s Public and Nonprofit Section has selected The Loyalty Trap for the 2026 Best Book Award. Grateful to Stephen Holt and the rest of the award committee!

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm honored @immanentframe.bsky.social featured my new essay "Unbundled Spiritual and Religious Innovation" : tif.ssrc.org/2026/05/20/u... And here papers inspiring this post (the first about to be published at ASR and the second under review): osf.io/preprints/so... osf.io/k59eb/overview

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/05/2026

beautiful ember-energy.org/latest-insig... @ember-energy.org

As gas falls to below 20% of the British power mix, prices fall like rain
Daily wholesale power prices by gas proportion (£/MWh)
Gas share:
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Source: LCCC, NESO Demand weighted day-ahead prices. Share of demand; includes net imports. Upper band is exclusive, 20% gas share is in 20-30% not 10-20%.
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rutger haur at the end of blade runner

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is the time of year when the pile of grading I am carrying around just keeps growing. . .

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Excited to be part of this ASA Soc of Culture panel on the culture of democracy and authoritarianism tomorrow and share some insights from my research on civil servants for The Loyalty Trap!

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Check out this article from @landonschnabel.bsky.social, Ilana Horowitz & @contexts.org on DIY Faith, especially among young & LGBTQ+ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Great w/our forthcoming article @ Am Soc Rev on the Unbundling of Religion: osf.io/preprints/so... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

When we learn from our students: A student wrote this post on how beneficial her dogs have been in her life: soc.hamiltonlits.org/.../lessons-... This helped us to consider getting a dog. After fostering Luna, we decided she has become part of our family. And we are learning so much from her!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🚨 ASA Section Award nominations close on May 1, and there are Grant Opportunities available at the links below. www.asanet.org/communities-... www.asanet.org/communities-...

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If most of the world is religious, what do you miss without that factor in your research? Learn how to include it with our panel of experts on integrating Religion& other areas of sociology. Join us on April 24 at 2:30pm EST. Register at tinyurl.com/religionand

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are hiring for a Visiting Assistant Professor in my Sociology department (1 year term). Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/183499

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Guy Walton..."The Climate Guy" @climateguyw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

After an @noaa.gov update on 3/26/2026 we see what I believe is the highest number of max records for a one-week period (from 3/18-3/24) that I have ever witnessed since 01/01/2000, with thousands more to be reported from this spring heatwave. @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social

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Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

RELIGION UNBUNDLED Excited that this paper proposing a new paradigm for the sociology of US religion @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, @bsteens.bsky.social and I have been working on has been accepted for publication in the American Sociological Review. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm excited to visit @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social @grinnellcollege.bsky.social next week and share the backstory of #TheLoyaltyTrap and why liberal arts learning is crucial for doing meaningful and impactful work. If you are near Grinnell, please pop in!

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Insights from time w/artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Dream big. Set your goals & hit them, w/support from friends & mentors. Learn from people of all ages. Know your strengths & rely on them. We need more artists and dreamers: So much is possible when done in community & w/support from loved one.

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Excited to have Jamea Richmond-Edwards on campus teaching us all about how to imagine new futures together and through art. For those on campus, come to our lunch conversation in the events barn

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So thrilled @tkiramadden.bsky.social's new book is coming out! We are lucky to have her. Hamilton folks can go see her book talk next Thursday! www.harpercollins.com/products/whi...

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Whidbey

A Most Anticipated Book by People • Vogue • Esquire • Harper’s Bazaar • USA Today • Seattle Times • Bookpage •Chicago Review of Books • Crimereads • Goodrea...

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Excited to read Yagmur Karakaya's new article on how "Populist backlash movements have hijacked cosmopolitan impulses" file:///C:/Users/jkucinsk/Downloads/Sociology%20Compass%20-%202026%20-%20Karakaya%20-%20The%20Global%20Rise%20of%20Populist%20Nostalgia%20%20Lessons%20From%20Collective%20Memory.pdf

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

About this paper: as I show in The Language of Climate Politics—and as @noahqkaufman.bsky.social explained broadly in The Atlantic a few weeks ago—there is NO EVIDENCE that economic growth will continue at past rates (or even at all) if the planet heats up to unprecedented temperatures. So... 1/2

The economics of climate adaptation optimism
Matthew G. Burgess*, Patrick T. Brown2,3,4, Matthew E. KahnS,6, and Roger Pielke Jr.7,8
'Department of Economics, College of Business, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
2 Interactive Brokers, Greenwich, CT, United States
3The Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States
4Energy Policy and Climate Program, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., United States 5 Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, CA, United States
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
*American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., United States
*matt.burgess@uwyo.edu
ABSTRACT Adaptation is often framed as marginally important to addressing climate change, and as socio-technically difficult and ineffectual. We combine theoretical and empirical analyses to show that adaptation especially via economic development—is actually often the dominant driver of climate-sensitive societal outcomes, especially on smaller space and time scales. This aligns adaptation with markets and governance incentives. For these reasons, widely studied climate-sensitive outcomes such as crop yields, affluence, and damage and death rates from climate-related hazards have broadly and steadily improved
over the past several decades, as have indirectly climate-sensitive outcomes such as mortality from violence and self-harm. These improvements provide important context to recent pessimistic studies of adaptation that focus on outcomes' marginal sensitivities to climate. They also underscore the importance of economic development to human well-being, and they suggest that economically costly climate policies could harm climate-sensitive outcomes. Moreover, we show that the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios has narrowed, providing greater clarity to the temperatures and types of impacts society must adapt to...

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts, Henry David Thoreau, Walden So thrilled to start a new course on Creative Community, Movement, and Imagining new Futures at the Wellin Museum of Art inspired by Jamea Richmond-Edward’s incredible Afro-futurist exhibit.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release." 1/

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Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler

Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science.

Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it.

Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available)

Education/Training/Experience

College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).

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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It makes my day when others take the time to reach out about my research. I’ve also built great relationships upon some of those emails!

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