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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · 10d

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? 😬

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 25

Relatedly, we're producing this stuff in Word right up until it's ready to go online, lots of our published graphs were made in Excel, our academic journal access is pretty limited and there's a lot of excitement in the office when we get free smoothies or ice cream a couple of times a year. 😅

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 21

A majority of U.S. immigrants are concentrated in only a dozen metro areas

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Map of United States of America shows 20 U.S. metro areas with the largest number of immigrants as of 2023. These include New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C. and Chicago. Circles over cities indicate size of immigrant population on a scale of 500,000 to 6 million.

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

Stacked bar chart showing educational attainment by country or region of birth. Most regions show higher shares of people with Bachelor's degrees or more than for the U.S.-born, but 36% of all immigrants and 36% of all native-born adults age 25+ hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 21

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/...

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.

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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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Aug 8

@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.

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#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Everyday Revenge

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 7

Also, slogans like "Save the Earth" are bad both because they're inaccurate and humans are self-interested creatures who aren't great at abstract concepts. The Earth doesn't need our help; it's seen many extinction events and always just keeps on keeping on. We're the ones who need saving.

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 7

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 · Aug 4

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

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 7

3. The Bureau began work on Census 2030 in 2019. Counting hundreds of millions of people across a vast continent is a big lift. It doesn't seem feasible to accomplish this with the additional task of excluding certain immigrants by 2030.

How removing unauthorized immigrants from census statistics could affect House reapportionment

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 7

2. Removing these immigrants would likely result in House seat losses for Florida, Texas and California. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren't counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Truth social post from @realDonaldTrump reads, "I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!:

BBC Audio | Sunday | Defining church, US religious electorate, Prison Reform

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 5

I would love to be able to say exactly when I enter the podcast, but I've never been able to bring myself to listen to or watch my own interviews.

Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week.

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

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Jul 30

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%)

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

National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Jul 24

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...

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

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

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

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

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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Jul 7

Sankey graphs depicting movement of individual voters are my favorite

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...

Chart showing the flow of voters and nonvoters from 2020 to 2024, based on a Pew Research Center study of validated voters in each election.

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Apr 7

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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Stephanie Kramer @stephaniekramer.bsky.social · Jan 7

Applications close in one month. Please apply if you'd like to come work with us for the summer!

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Jan 6

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.

Screenshot of a list of paid internships at Pew Research Center in summer 2025.

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Andrew Daniller @adaniller.bsky.social · Nov 22

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/...

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