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Philip N Cohen
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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

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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 · 29d
I'm about 18 months and 20,000 words into the "pronatalism" tag on Family Inequality. Surely this means my book is almost done.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 8h
A nazi emailed me this clip of Paola Ramos saying, "there’s no scientific evidence to prove that a black woman and a white woman are genetically different" to Malcolm Collins and him blowing a gasket. Really raised my stress level. (Haven't seen the whole bit.)
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Paola Ramos on Instagram: "The pronatalist movement, a movement that encourages people to have more babies is once again gaining momentum in the far right. Remember, Trump said he wants to be the “pre...
The pronatalist movement is gaining momentum, with influential figures like Elon Musk and the Collins family advocating for more children to ensure civilization's survival. They believe in the importa...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h
A thread of our most downloaded episodes for 2025!

w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social production by @whatulysses.bsky.social and Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19h
Facts numberer 80-134 were posted in 2025. Soon I will post a list of the most popular of the year, based on likes.
philipncohen.com Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Jan 10
80. The average number of years spent in marriage between ages 15 and 55, in the US, peaked at 29.7 in 1960, and fell to 18.1 by 2023.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20h
134. In 2024, 13% of people age 18-44 in the US lived alone, the highest percentage ever. The percentage for those age 45-64 (15%) and 65+ (29%) are below their peaks. (For seniors, decline is good if it means less widowhood and more independence, bad if it means hard times for old or young.)
chart Living alone 18-44 45-64 65+ 1850 5.02 3.38 5.19 1860 4.07 3.35 5.53 1870 4.39 3.45 5.44 1880 5 4.41 7.14 1900 5.21 5.51 9.08 1910 5.5 5.76 9.79 1920 5.55 6.83 11.23 1930 5.32 7.2 12.89 1940 5.21 8.14 15.13 1950 6.78 9.39 18.61 1960 7.01 9.64 22.6 1970 8.75 10.19 30.07 1980 11.01 11.15 33.64 1990 11.49 12.41 34.35 2000 12.38 14.54 33.81 2010 12.18 15.87 30.9 2019 12.2 15.41 28.75 2024 13.45 15.05 28.81

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23h
If he's like some other guys out there he says the same thing about everything that happens

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Excellent choice!

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 1d
Two years in a row makes it a tradition: Ethiopian food for dinner on Christmas Eve in Silver Spring!

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 1d
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Good luck! Someone told me those old NYC buildings are all overheated cuz people wanted to keep windows open in winter to prevent flu transmission. Good story!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Old pot 'o water on the radiator always worked for me

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
X whips up the mob, ChatGPT writes the regulations, Palantir provides the names, Amazon runs the warehouses, Meta...
charlesgaba.com Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
If you don't believe me ask a communist

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Side note: it's not illegal or unethical to "discriminate" on the basis of ideology and it's how literally everything has always worked.
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it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Wow

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
I have a tendency to roll my eyes at Ivy League faculty problems, because jealousy, and I probably still will, but good reminder that of course they treat their own like shit as much as anyone else (or more).

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Holy shit.

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philipncohen.com Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Aug 22
115. From 1990 to 2023, immigrant women had 29 million births in the U.S., or 22% of the total. In 2023 it was 24%.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
You know what else immigrants "give" is human children. More than 1/5 of US-born children this century had immigrant mothers.
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d
As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Mr. Miller’s belief that seven decades of immigration has produced millions of people who take more than they give—an assertion that has been refuted by years of economic data—is at the heart of the Trump administration’s campaign to restrict immigration and deport immigrants already in the country.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 1d
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“I don't go to very many faculty meetings at all - but | stopped going to Harvard Sociology meetings a long time ago. When I returned to Harvard in the 1980s, many in the Sociology Department made my life miserable, and the Government Department initially refused to accept me as a faculty member. I had no department, really. After years of that, I finally won the top award in political science for my book Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, and the Government Department voted to accept me on their faculty. I just said, okay, I'm going to be in a place where I'm not excluded and treated like a witch all the time, as I was then in Sociology.”

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d
As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Mr. Miller’s belief that seven decades of immigration has produced millions of people who take more than they give—an assertion that has been refuted by years of economic data—is at the heart of the Trump administration’s campaign to restrict immigration and deport immigrants already in the country.