@cmarsinelli
PhD Candidate in Sociology at UMass Boston, studying expertise & authority in the age of GenAI. Interested in culture and status inequality. Also, jigsaw puzzles lately and niche history generally - ask me about the Great Molasses Flood
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
BREAKING: punxsutawney phil has fled the country
Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Clippy walked so Gemini could run
Hold up
The people yearn for collective effervescence!
“That something exists outside ourselves and our preoccupations, so near, so readily available, is our greatest blessing.”
On walking
www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/18/i...
A person stands at a podium giving a conference presentation in a hotel meeting room. A projection screen next to them displays a colorful slide titled “Spirituality at Scale: A Large-Sample Study of Tarot Readings,” co-authored by an associate professor and a PhD candidate in sociology at UMass Boston. The presenter faces the audience while the slide includes bright geometric shapes in blue, orange, pink, and yellow tones.
👏 Exciting news!
PhD candidate Cam Marsinelli (@cmarsinelli.bsky.social) presented research at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Minneapolis.
With Dr. Evan Stewart (@evanstewart.bsky.social), they used AI to analyze YouTube tarot readings + engagement. Congrats! 💙 #UMB #Sociology
Screenshot of a slide titled "The Case: Tarot & Spiritual Practice Online, at Scale." We show that self-reports of practicing tarot in the last 12 months are up among 18-29 year olds in the National Religion and Spirituality Survey, and the Pew Research Center reports 30% of Americans consult astrology, tarot cards, or fortune tellers.
Tomorrow #ASA2025 / ASR2025: Let's talk tarot. Come out to see @cmarsinelli.bsky.social & me with new findings on what practitioners say & what audiences reward with attention when we study spiritual practice online, at scale. Session 50668 - Religion & the Therapeutic at Noon!
This too shall pass but in a three coffees no lunch kind of way
We’ve been cooking thanks to @cmarsinelli.bsky.social’s stellar work. Excited to tease something new for religion/spirituality/culture researchers at #ESS2025, especially with new Pew reports on widespread spirituality in the US.