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Philip N Cohen

@philipncohen.com

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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland; SocArXiv director.

New book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418

Website: philipncohen.com
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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 · Nov 26

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...

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 3h

Ok everyone please use a superbowl emoji or hashtag so I can mute it. (Good luck, teams!)

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Amy W. Ando

Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 4h

Public comments needed!

The admin wants to define grad programs in many "helping" fields (social work, nursing, teaching, etc) to no longer be "professional" degrees. This would mean major student loan restrictions: only $20,500/year. Tuition alone is often more.

Please comment by March 2!

Reclassifying Social Work Degrees Will Harm Students, Communities, and the Profession

www.cswe.org

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7h

We pays for this, obviously. We pay for the complex, bloated infrastructure necessary to deny access to the research we produce. And it sucks. It doesn't work to keep people out (thanks, Sci-hub!), and it doesn't work to let people in.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7h

Reviewed a paper for a Sage journal. Offered me 60 days of free access to all journals! Never tried to claim this before, but thought why not. Wouldn't take my login. Wouldn't send a new password without CAPTCHA. 10 (correct) tries it insisted were all were wrong. Clicked "Help": Page not found. tx!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11h

(I make a lot of graphs when I'm trying to figure out the story. Posting them in the demographic facts thread elevates them from the scrap pile on my drive to something I might want to work with later.)

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11h

145. Among US women in their 40s, those who had babies in their early 30s are most likely to have college degrees (75%). And over time that is where the greatest increase in education has happened. Women who have first babies in ages 20-24 have seen much smaller increases in education (now 27%).

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11h

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12h

Lane wide open for unapologetically pro-immigration Democrats

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13h

Ossoff taking a firm stand that ICE is bad for... Americans.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13h

What if someone told Ossoff immigrants are working-class too?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

144. In the US, women are much more likely to have a BA or higher education if they had their first child over age 25 -- or if they have had no children.

bar graph showing rates from about 20% to more than 60%

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

TrumpRx is so cool for buying Zepbound without insurance. Instead of going directly to the Eli Lilly site and buying it at their "discount" price, you just go to TrumpRx first, then search it up, then click on the link and go to the Eli Lilly site, where you buy it at the same price. Thanks, Trump!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

I don't know that he went to grad school. I thought he got a job right out of Michigan undergrad (where I was briefly his editor at the Daily)

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Good restraint!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Hi Bluesky. No offense to "plates_and_tales," but it's possible Vance did not actually bring 14 planes and 100 vehicles with him, as no major news source seems to report this information.

HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 2d

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.

To *Italy*.

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens

The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

www.pbs.org

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Ben Barr, Philip N. Cohen , and 12 more Rebecca Solnit, Ben Barr, Philip N. Cohen, Edgar Morgenroth, Michelle Everson, Aaron Sojourner, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Erol Akçay, Dana R. Fisher, Robert L. Tsai, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal, Harvey J. Kaye

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Are grades supposed to be relative to others at the institution or the world? I had a friend from Harvard (honest!) who said the students were all excellent and deserved A's.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Check the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Reposted by Will Jennings, Philip N. Cohen, Caroline T. Schroeder , and 1 more Will Jennings, Philip N. Cohen, Caroline T. Schroeder, Brooke Harrington

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen

Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 1d

The first big wave of immigration to the US from what became Haiti started in the 1790s. Thousands of Americans emigrated *to* Haiti in the 1820s. Sounds like a bunch of Heritage Americans to me. New column, with gift link. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Many Haitian-Americans Are Heritage Americans, Too

The first big wave of immigration to the US from what is now Haiti came in the 1790s, after a 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue kicked off years of turmoil. About 10,000 refugee...

www.bloomberg.com

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d

Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.

First Monday has never charged --- in its entire history --- article processing charges (APC). First Monday has never subscribed to the notion that the article processing charges (APC) model is a version of open access publishing. First Monday has never leveled subscription fees or charges in its long history. First Monday has never tolerated advertisements in any form on its virtual pages. First Monday is truly openly accessible at all levels and has always been so, from its beginning with its first issue released on 6 May 1996.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

The authoritarian right has always used the threat of sexual deviance to turn people against modern progress. We benefit from lower birth rates, higher education, and women's independence - and their answer is, you sexual deviants!
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/f...

Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance

Women enter the labor force, they have fewer children, those children get more education, and the economy benefits. It’s not perfect, but if you’re going to have capitalism it’s b…

familyinequality.wordpress.com

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