Beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.
If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.
Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-mapping-the-worlds-largest-population-densities/
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Conrad Hackett 
@conradhackett@sciences.social
mastodon 4.7.3Senior Demographer & Associate Director of Research at Pew Research Center
Studying global religious change, posting great social science research & visualizations. #Sociology #Demography #Religion #PewResearch
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Please share - Pew Research Center is looking for 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.
https://pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExternal/job/Washington-DC-Pew-Research-Center/Data-Archivist_R003046-1
A decade ago, this image went mega-viral on Google+. In the ensuing years, it has been adapted and reused thousands of times.
@cra1g@sciences.social created this instantly viral image and tells the story of its evolution here:
@CRA1G@medium.com
@sociology@a.gup.pe @politicalscience@a.gup.pe
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/
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
RE: @conradhackett@sciences.social
A few hours ago, I asked people to share the post below about a new data archivist position at Pew Research Center.
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There's a type of survey that is fueling talk of a young adult religious revival in the UK & the US.
You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion.
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: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/23/has-there-been-a-christian-revival-among-young-adults-in-the-uk-recent-surveys-may-be-misleading/
Measles cases per 100,000 people before and after introduction of the measles vaccine
http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June Pew Research Center survey.
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/
How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious "Nones"
free for all to read: https://sociologicalscience.com/download/volume-13/february/SocSci_v13_89to108.pdf
Is the world becoming more religious? Is a Christian revival underway in the UK?
I'll discuss these questions in London next week:
Wed. at @ucl.ac.uk https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2026/jan/world-becoming-more-religious-or-less-religious
Thur. at @brunelpsy.bsky.social https://students.brunel.ac.uk/whats-on/shared-horizons-seminar-series-conrad-hackett
& Thur. at King's https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/really-quiet-revival-religious-belief-among-gen-z-bobby-duffy-kxjne/
New study in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z : "3 stages of religious decline around the world."
We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious:
1. Participation
2. Importance
3. Belonging
OUR NEW STUDY: The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241310469