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
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· Nov 14
Hello new followers! I waste a lot of time on here, but when I'm not doing that I sometimes write books. My new one is called Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (out in January, orderable now), and it has all you need to prevent ... oh no
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My talk tomorrow at Oxford: "Authoritarian Pronatalism and the Pyrrhic Defeat." www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcomin... Alternate title...
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My talk tomorrow at Oxford: "Authoritarian Pronatalism and the Pyrrhic Defeat." www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/upcomin... Alternate title...
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The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
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This completely ignores the absolutely unique thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald, which arguably changed everything
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This completely ignores the absolutely unique thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald, which arguably changed everything
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𝗔 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
Our gratitude to this year’s laureates, Peter Bearman and Philip Cohen, for their inspiring lectures.
@socarxiv.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Our gratitude to this year’s laureates, Peter Bearman and Philip Cohen, for their inspiring lectures.
@socarxiv.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
𝗔 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
Our gratitude to this year’s laureates, Peter Bearman and Philip Cohen, for their inspiring lectures.
@socarxiv.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Our gratitude to this year’s laureates, Peter Bearman and Philip Cohen, for their inspiring lectures.
@socarxiv.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Why do people just report this? May Mailman says that, "Instead of producing citizens who will 'propel our country into the next generation of greatness,' [universities] are, in her view, creating 'indebted students with useless majors who hate our country and like to go to riots.'"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why do people just report this? May Mailman says that, "Instead of producing citizens who will 'propel our country into the next generation of greatness,' [universities] are, in her view, creating 'indebted students with useless majors who hate our country and like to go to riots.'"
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I really like this idea. Even if we don’t get a journal, it seems like incumbent journals could encourage some kind of research note format. I’m still being cited for things that were accurate fifteen years ago and are extremely not accurate now.
Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I really like this idea. Even if we don’t get a journal, it seems like incumbent journals could encourage some kind of research note format. I’m still being cited for things that were accurate fifteen years ago and are extremely not accurate now.
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Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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We @knightcolumbia.org are doing two online events on chilling effects: First on 11/17 on the state of 1A doctrine and current cases involving chilling effects claims, and 2nd on 12/10 on using social science to study the chill caused by particular laws and policies. RSVP links below & in next post:
Want to learn more about chilling effects and why they matter to the First Amendment? Join our webinar with litigators and experts on Monday, Nov. 17, including @carriedecell.bsky.social @evelyndouek.bsky.social @penney.bsky.social @stacylivingston.bsky.social:
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Litigating Chilling Effects
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November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We @knightcolumbia.org are doing two online events on chilling effects: First on 11/17 on the state of 1A doctrine and current cases involving chilling effects claims, and 2nd on 12/10 on using social science to study the chill caused by particular laws and policies. RSVP links below & in next post:
Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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By my reckoning no modern authoritarian leader has been as unpopular in his capital city as Trump
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
By my reckoning no modern authoritarian leader has been as unpopular in his capital city as Trump
A few of Copenhagen's dramatic statues
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A few of Copenhagen's dramatic statues
Heritage: burning in Hell to own the libs
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Heritage: burning in Hell to own the libs
In word counts, US media does their part to honor the 1000-to-1 Israeli to Palestinian life value rule in reporting on the return of remains to their families.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In word counts, US media does their part to honor the 1000-to-1 Israeli to Palestinian life value rule in reporting on the return of remains to their families.
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Haha that's pretty awesome. Nice one, Herbert Blumer.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Haha that's pretty awesome. Nice one, Herbert Blumer.
"Diversity" was always already a defensive fallback. Then it became too much, so they reduced it to, "broaden the perspectives represented." Then they killed it.
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Diversity" was always already a defensive fallback. Then it became too much, so they reduced it to, "broaden the perspectives represented." Then they killed it.
Today in Copenhagen: "People are disappearing. Fear and unrest are permeating the streets."
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Today in Copenhagen: "People are disappearing. Fear and unrest are permeating the streets."
Wow Cornell better hurry up and get that money to the farmers if we are going to have any hope of eradicating this
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Wow Cornell better hurry up and get that money to the farmers if we are going to have any hope of eradicating this
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Read that from Musk closely:
"Civilisations" with seperate and distinct characters are locked in a Darwinian fight for survival, and hearts must be sufficiently hardened to do what is necessary in order to prevail.
Can you name a historical precedent for this worldview?
"Civilisations" with seperate and distinct characters are locked in a Darwinian fight for survival, and hearts must be sufficiently hardened to do what is necessary in order to prevail.
Can you name a historical precedent for this worldview?
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Read that from Musk closely:
"Civilisations" with seperate and distinct characters are locked in a Darwinian fight for survival, and hearts must be sufficiently hardened to do what is necessary in order to prevail.
Can you name a historical precedent for this worldview?
"Civilisations" with seperate and distinct characters are locked in a Darwinian fight for survival, and hearts must be sufficiently hardened to do what is necessary in order to prevail.
Can you name a historical precedent for this worldview?
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This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI
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The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here:
Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here:
Bluesky is labeling this sexually suggestive without nudity, but it's the opposite: nudity but not sexually suggestive (according to most interpretations)
I went to see the David statue this morning. It was quite moving. 500 years old! 3 years' labor and 8 tons of marble! Truly awe inspiring. I think my picture is good enough for my memory, but just in case I have some backups, too.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Bluesky is labeling this sexually suggestive without nudity, but it's the opposite: nudity but not sexually suggestive (according to most interpretations)
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My biggest question for @cornelluniversity.bsky.social admin right now is: how will this be interpreted? Will Cornell be changing its current trans-inclusive policy that "allows students, staff, faculty, and visitors to use the restroom or facility that corresponds to their gender identity"?
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My biggest question for @cornelluniversity.bsky.social admin right now is: how will this be interpreted? Will Cornell be changing its current trans-inclusive policy that "allows students, staff, faculty, and visitors to use the restroom or facility that corresponds to their gender identity"?
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Priding yourself on securing an agreement that next time the Administration will follow the law it blatantly ignored this time just seems so naive.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Priding yourself on securing an agreement that next time the Administration will follow the law it blatantly ignored this time just seems so naive.
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160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
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UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
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November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.