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Philip N Cohen
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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland; director of SocArXiv. New book out! Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
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Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences. .. more

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 8m
I'm about 18 months and 20,000 words into the "pronatalism" tag on Family Inequality. Surely this means my book is almost done.
familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/pronatal...
word cloud from the blog posts

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 16h
Ok, that report is a wild ride. What a mess!

(My question is the political ideology effects of marriage/parenthood versus college on young adults. Someone must have done that?)

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 17h
In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22h
130. Countries with higher total fertility have lower life satisfaction (using the Cantril ladder measure). This is mostly explained by development (HDI is life expectancy, education, and income). However, in the most developed countries the TFR-satisfaction relationship is strongly positive.
137 country scatter high HDI scatter

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 23h
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
EU countries don't have to allow same-sex marriages, but they have to recognize them if performed in other EU states. Sort of in between our Windsor and Obergefell cases.
www.reuters.com

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 1d
Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
In the lawsuit, Garza alleges Bally said Campbell's makes "highly processed food" for "poor people" and made several derogatory comments about Indian employees, calling them "idiots." "We have s--t for f**king poor people. Who buys our s--t? | don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now that I know what the f—'s in it," part of the recording said. "Bioengineered meat -- I don't wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
In the lawsuit, Garza alleges Bally said Campbell's makes "highly processed food" for "poor people" and made several derogatory comments about Indian employees, calling them "idiots." "We have s--t for f**king poor people. Who buys our s--t? | don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now that I know what the f—'s in it," part of the recording said. "Bioengineered meat -- I don't wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer."

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
If not Cowen they might be just digging up what seem like obscure biblical names, like Ezekiel

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Given the number of times I've heard (((Cohen))) as a straight antisemitic insult I'd be surprised, but who knows

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Maybe just the "most partisan" (they're all in New York and New Jersey?). A little ecological fallacy situation (problematic to call that "partisan"). You don't see those names on the figures that correlate with %Trump across all states, which is better.

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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 1d
My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.

Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Those poor MAGAs naming their sons "Cohen" thinking it's just a creative spelling of Cowen or something 😂

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 1d
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
See you in Finland in May!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Congratulations!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Like herd immunity, once you cross some threshold of fakery, the platform is useless.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 1d
The 'Great Replacement' story has always carried antisemitism at its core. It imagines Jews as the hidden architects of “replacement,” using migrants to undermine white, Christian societies.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 1d
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.

On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”

That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
A tweet from the official Department of State twitter says "Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration."

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
I would like to read that - agree now it's highly relevant. If anyone has done this it might have been a historical demographer. Or one should!

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 2d
Very happy informing y'all that I won the 2025 Distinguished Publication Prize of the European Academy of Sociology, for my ASR paper of last year. #EAS. My paper is here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... . The link to EAS: www.european-academy-sociology.eu/publication-...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d
Hate the question, love the time series: A GSS story

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d
Thank you, @brendannyhan.bsky.social for not using fake generation labels in this piece -- and damn the editors who brainlessly add them to headlines to make things clickable.
OPINION GUEST ESSAY The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? Nov. 24, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 2d
Why I don't trust philo-Semitic conservatives, in one subtitle

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)

The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d
NYT review of his 1974 Carnegie Hall show: “Perhaps it’s racist to expect reggae to be happy good-time music, but Mr. Cliff could profitably relax and give us a little bit more of that, just the same.”

Suggested response: "I'd rather be a free man in my grave / than living as a puppet or a slave."
Jimmy Cliff, Reggae Icon, Dies at 81
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