jonas
@jh1791.bsky.social
Sociology and/of religion. Semi-pro dilettante. A damned Vermont person™ in the Shenandoah Valley. The Arsenal. We need more heavy metal. And whiskey. Probably.
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@jh1791.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Very happy to announce the availability "Religion in Sociological Perspective, 8th edition."
Many thanks to David Yamane for taking me on for this new edition. It will be available in the coming weeks, and definitely ready for your spring courses!
collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/rel...
Many thanks to David Yamane for taking me on for this new edition. It will be available in the coming weeks, and definitely ready for your spring courses!
collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/rel...
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Two fully paid PhD positions at Lund University! One in Hebrew Bible and the other in Jewish studies, focus late antiquity. Gorgeous location and gorgeous colleagues. Don't sleep on this! (Set filter to HT to access these two in particular.)
lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies
lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies
Vacancies | Lund University
lunduniversity.lu.se
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Two fully paid PhD positions at Lund University! One in Hebrew Bible and the other in Jewish studies, focus late antiquity. Gorgeous location and gorgeous colleagues. Don't sleep on this! (Set filter to HT to access these two in particular.)
lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies
lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies
Fog of war....
...Smoke of war crimes.
Potato, tomato...I guess.
...Smoke of war crimes.
Potato, tomato...I guess.
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Fog of war....
...Smoke of war crimes.
Potato, tomato...I guess.
...Smoke of war crimes.
Potato, tomato...I guess.
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I’ve been writing about political polarization in U.S. baby names, but kept running into a possible ecological fallacy: Are these political patterns or just urban v. rural geography?
So I tried to answer it definitively. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...
So I tried to answer it definitively. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...
Where Names Live: Mapping Baby Name Geography and Political Culture
Over the past few months, I’ve been writing about political polarization and baby naming practices in the United States (see HERE for the most recent piece). A consistent pattern kept showing up: s…
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’ve been writing about political polarization in U.S. baby names, but kept running into a possible ecological fallacy: Are these political patterns or just urban v. rural geography?
So I tried to answer it definitively. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...
So I tried to answer it definitively. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...
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so I'm glad that this is getting more attention - the far right's obsession with the crusades is way more than just Hegseth's white supremacist tattoos
in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades
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in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades
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🧵 Every year since Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix began, there has been an afterparty hosted by the Republicans for National Renewal fascists which brings together more of the extreme right that hangs around AmFest and multiple local elected officials. This year is no different…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
so I'm glad that this is getting more attention - the far right's obsession with the crusades is way more than just Hegseth's white supremacist tattoos
in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades
1/
in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades
1/
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I sincerely hope sociologists are collecting longitudinal data on this. What a great experiment. I sincerely hope it works...
#sociology
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/a...
#sociology
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/a...
What happens when you kick millions teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out | CNN
In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...
www.cnn.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I sincerely hope sociologists are collecting longitudinal data on this. What a great experiment. I sincerely hope it works...
#sociology
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/a...
#sociology
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/a...
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Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it
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Genuinely wondering how Northwestern (and other universities) can reconcile its stated priority of advancing and disseminating scientific in the biological sciences with its acceptance of Trump's demonstrably incorrect, scientifically illiterate definition of sex.
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Genuinely wondering how Northwestern (and other universities) can reconcile its stated priority of advancing and disseminating scientific in the biological sciences with its acceptance of Trump's demonstrably incorrect, scientifically illiterate definition of sex.
"I AM A BISON, NOT A 'BUFFALO'. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"I AM A BISON, NOT A 'BUFFALO'. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
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NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees
(RNS) — ‘The Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of Christianity,’ the legal complaint reads.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Spiral Architect
Without saying Iron Man, fav Black Sabbath song?
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Spiral Architect
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.
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2-yr postdoc opportunity in @ndsociology.bsky.social at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). iei.nd.edu/initiatives/...
CREO Postdoc Promotion | Institute for Educational Initiatives
iei.nd.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
2-yr postdoc opportunity in @ndsociology.bsky.social at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). iei.nd.edu/initiatives/...
As per usual, listen to Victor.
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
As per usual, listen to Victor.
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With an entire country's ages 5-17 kids (England), this study again confirms the benefits of Covid vaccination. Meanwhile, just 15% of eligible US kids are up to date on this vax.
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With an entire country's ages 5-17 kids (England), this study again confirms the benefits of Covid vaccination. Meanwhile, just 15% of eligible US kids are up to date on this vax.