Philip N Cohen

Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland. Director of SocArXiv. philipncohen.com #sociology #demography #inequality

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2024-09-08 14:30:56

NYT/Sienna response rate up to 1.6%. People are getting pumped about responding to polls!
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2024-08-20 03:44:00

"America, where hate has no safe harbor," has not joined the International Criminal Court, so hate does have a little safe harbor here tbh

2024-08-15 16:57:30

The GOP is a death cult. "Republicans’ confidence in childhood vaccines has plunged over the past five years, resulting in a significant decline in Americans’ overall belief that these vaccines are important." https://news.gallup.com/poll/648308/far-fewer-regard-childhood-vaccinations-important.aspx
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2024-08-10 12:27:58

If ASA loved you back it would run a free, open preprint server to archive and distribute your work, making #ASA2024 papers a genuine contribution to the scholarly record, run according to academic community norms, instead of hoarding and profit seeking.

2024-07-28 02:58:10

People still on Twitter are working for a fascist billionaire who posts AI deepfake content to undermine democracy. The best time to stop amplifying Elon Musk is always now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/elon-musk-kamala-harris-deepfake.html

2024-07-27 02:17:55

Trump: "Christians get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years - you know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I am a Christian. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good you're not gonna have to vote." https://x.com/acyn/status/1817007890496102490

2024-07-20 13:09:30

We have no experience of countries climbing from very low birth rates back up to replacement-level fertility, so we can’t say how that might be accomplished (or even if it’s a good idea to try).
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/there-is-very-little-evidence-base-for-reversing-low-fertility-rates/

2024-07-16 12:43:45

Denied a lawyer, denied medical care, no glasses, routinely tortured, lost 88 pounds in 7 months, falsely accused. With impunity from US cover, Israel simply denies what is plainly observable.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5032999/a-radiologist-in-gaza-says-he-endured-beatings-while-detained-in-israel

2024-06-18 01:11:44

"Acts of Language: Amid the actual violence of Israel's assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat?" By Isabella Hammad. Ht @npub13my…yffs
https://archive.is/2024.06.13-223920/https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/13/acts-of-language-isabella-hammad/

2024-06-04 21:51:17

"The Destruction, Starvation and Death in Gaza Are Israel's Defeat." This is what you call a searing indictment, by Amira Hass in Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-06-04/ty-article/.premium/the-destruction-starvation-and-death-in-gaza-are-israels-defeat/0000018f-e31a-dce5-abdf-e33f1d9a0000

2024-05-10 23:54:44

650,000 US adults died from a drug overdose from 2011 to 2021. From those, 323,000 children lost a parent, and the rate of losing a parent more than doubled from 27 per 100k in 2011 to 63 per 100k in 2021.
2021 disparities:
Am Indian: 187.1 per 100k
White: 76.5
Black: 73.2
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2818228

2024-05-06 18:55:15

Population zero in 3255? By this scenario (in which the global total fertility rate falls rapidly to 1.66), by 2205 — 181 years from now — we would be back down the the global #population level of the year 2000. #demography
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/x-axis-manipulation-and-depopulation-panic/

2024-05-03 04:05:37

Robin DG Kelley: "I suspect that your previous executive and managerial posts in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank of England did not prepare you to lead a university. These students are ... doing what you should be doing: leading." https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik/ #gaza #highered

2024-02-12 16:40:22

The number of US births in 2023 (provisional) was 3.59 million. (Below 3.6 for the first time since 1979.) The annual decline from the 2007 peak to 2019 was .92 per 1000 women (15-44) per year. After the pandemic bust-boom we are back on track for that trend. #demography
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2024-01-08 21:28:04

This guy supposedly graduated from Harvard in 1968, when I guess "do the most lazy-ass crap research you can imagine" was in the core curriculum. They literally made him a dean. @NAChristakis
#highered
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2024-01-04 23:31:39

America's stupid concentration of wealth and private funding for education means there are a few hundred billionaires who can say to a university: "Here is a billion dollars. Do exactly as I tell you for 10 years and you'll get another billion" - and it works. How many of the few hundred are bad actors you don't want in that position? A few hundred.

2023-12-23 21:10:07

I endorse this statement by Rashid Khalidi about free speech and Palestine at #Columbia https://www.instagram.com/p/C1LF6NeuM3x/
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2023-12-20 16:02:12

UMD is searching for a new library dean, and I'm on the search committee. Feel free to contact me to discuss applying!
#academia #libraries
https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/university-maryland/dean-libraries

2023-10-27 17:48:45

Is it ethical to take things off your CV because they are embarrassing? (Things that would be there if you were proud of them: pubs, talks, honors, committees, etc). Is it a record or a marketing document? #academia

2023-10-19 14:04:45

"Basic humanity needs to be restored in Gaza. The indiscriminate bombing must stop. The egregious level of collective punishment currently being meted out on the people of #Gaza must end" https://www.msf.org/unconditional-humanity-needs-be-restored-gaza

2023-09-25 14:59:21

Putin: “The Western masters put a person at the head of modern Ukraine an ethnic Jew, with Jewish roots, with Jewish origins” to cover up “the anti-human essence that is the foundation … of the modern Ukrainian state” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/25/putin-antisemitism-zelensky-russia-ukraine/
#Putin #Ukraine #antisemitism

2023-09-20 21:28:36

Matt Bruenig is right, here: https://mattbruenig.com/2023/09/20/doing-the-marriage-thing-again/.
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2023-08-22 18:08:57

Ok, got my teaching tools ready for the new semester
#ChatGPT #ai #llms #HigherEd #Academia
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2023-08-17 14:49:08

Researchers reducing Twitter use, moving to Mastodon, LinkedIn. Nature survey: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
#twitter #mastodonmigration #Academia
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2023-08-13 04:15:24

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@npub15x4…3p3l my approach has changed a little in teaching. https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/trigger-warnings-dont-work-in-experimental-settings/

2023-08-07 23:52:07

Meanwhile on Mastodon
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2023-08-04 22:37:02

Ross @DouthatNYT does not cite people carelessly. Two links in one 2023 piece to Richard Hanania, now outed as a nazi, is a strong, deliberate endorsement. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/conservative-mainstream-media.html (HuffPo piece on Hanania: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817)
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2023-05-20 23:33:11

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@npub1ut8…k9fw i don't get how 9 tons of fuel produces 18 tons of emissions. Shoulda taken more science in school

2023-05-20 23:15:16

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A study on the harms of face masks was retracted. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1221666/full. My analysis of mask-related injuries found a very small number, especially falls, rashes, and probable anxiety attacks. Altogether 1.5 per 100,000 Americans in 2020, and 5.3/100k over age 75. Similar to extension cords, 1/18 as dangerous as jewelry. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/f3wbn/
#publichealth #masks #scicomm #vaccineswork #science #retraction
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2023-05-12 13:35:01

"We noticed white people doing this, so that made it a story" is a breath of fresh air, honestly. In the real estate section:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/realestate/single-mother-households-co-living.html
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2023-04-24 04:11:52

US military spending in 2022 was 39% of total global military spending and three-times more than China, the world’s second biggest spender. (Do Americans know we spend three-times as much as China?) https://www.sipri.org/news/press-release/2023/world-military-expenditure-reaches-new-record-high-european-spending-surges

2023-04-05 16:32:22

Ok, #[0] is now defaming me. Only the first 6 words of this are in any way true. "Write a short description of the academic scandal involving Philip Cohen." To repeat, none of this happened.
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