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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.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12h

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

www.whitehouse.gov

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12h

Also withdrew from UN Women

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FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS
We are the global champion for gender equality.
UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women's human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12h

Trump just withdrew the US from the UN Population Fund. For obvious reasons: "working to uphold the rights and choices of women, girls and young people... Through our work, we ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person can fulfil their potential."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

www.whitehouse.gov

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18h

This is a challenge for people trying to counter our authoritarian slide, too. My sense is that we are moving decisively in the wrong direction, and any models of progressive social change in the field today have already failed and need to be retooled.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

Life Under a Clicktatorship

What happens to government when everything is content?

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Here is my first newsletter of the year, on the destruction of science past and future. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d

There is a full-fledged attack on women's reproductive - and thus their overall LIFE - autonomy. It's dressed up as "promoting health" and in the guise of "expanding options," but the intent is clear given Heritage's "Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family."

Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 1d

MAHA is weaponizing fertility awareness based methods to undermine access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care (e.g., other forms of contraception, abortion, IVF, Title X). Here, I argue that FABMs must be grounded in evidence & reproductive justice: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Health Affairs Journal

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Life Under a Clicktatorship

What happens to government when everything is content?

donmoynihan.substack.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Good tx! www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

Truth or Fake - ‘Thank you, Trump’: video of crying Venezuelans thanking the US is AI-generated

A video showing emotional Venezuelans celebrating the capture of Nicolas Maduro - and thanking Donald Trump - was widely shared on social media, and even reposted by Elon Musk. The clip however, is AI...

www.france24.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Ah yes. I agree. I especially don't like the "everyone complain to IRB" campaign. Uncool.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

I agree. The person whom I responded to (who blocked me) doesn't list a rank in his bio, just "cognitive scientist" (I checked), and I was polite. I did not check how many people were replying so I don't know if I was piling on.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

I guess so. I chose "temporary chat" but that's not the default

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Good luck talking to people who block you for even thinking this.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

also, unless I'm wrong, usually "feeding" text into regular ChatGPT etc doesn't automatically make it part of its training data.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

"In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters."

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1d

The future of propaganda studies is going to be lit. So much raw, primary source material to work with. Streams of it running directly out of the U.S. White House at the moment. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.

www.whitehouse.gov

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1d

January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.

www.whitehouse.gov

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessibility, usability, and reproducibility of our research data while continuing to protect the privacy and identity of our survey participants.

As Data Archivist, you will lead efforts to create and implement best practices for preparing, documenting, and disseminating datasets. These best practices should maximize FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles while minimizing disclosure risk. You will work across teams to ensure our data is well-organized and thoroughly documented.

You will serve as an internal advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are not only accurate and comprehensive but also easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.

This is a full-time, Pew Research Center position. The position is funded by an external grant and limited to a two-year term.

Primary Responsibilities

Develop optimization procedures to improve discoverability of our datasets on internal and external platforms

Develop and maintain standards to improve accessibility of our microdata and tab plans by changing/adding formats and/or adding documentation

Identify metadata documentation best practices and a process to implement those best practices at the Center

Work with Legal to evaluate most appropriate license to publicly share the Center's survey data, including Creative Common options

Identify and correct processing inefficiencies in our data publication process

Sit on the internal Disclosure Risk Taskforce

Document analytical decisions and code to support transparency and replicability, including the development of a RACI chart for publishing code to recreate derived variables that are used in reports but are not included in the microdata

Manage/create merged time series datasets for select Center datasets

Identify a process for internally archiving data and projects that are no longer in active use

Identify and implement a process to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to microdata

Prepare and upload public-facing datasets and restricted-use datasets for external sharing.

Train staff on FAIR principles and best practices in data archiving.

Education/Training/Experience

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in library sciences, organizational management, or a related field.

5-7 years of experience with data archiving, database management, or survey research. This may include graduate training at the MA/PhD level or equivalent experience in an applied setting.

At least 3-5 years of experience applying FAIR and open science principles.

Background in social science research or data curation.

Experience in data management, archiving, or research support.

Familiarity with FAIR principles, Creative Common licensing, data privacy principles, and exposure risk.

Proficiency in metadata standards and documentation tools.

Experience managing research projects, including working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.

Experience with statistical software (e.g., R, Python, Stata) and reproducible research workflows.

Knowledge, Skill and Workplace Requirements

Strong organizational and communication skills.

Detail oriented with exacting standards to maintain accuracy and impartiality in all work products.

Ability to work independently to carry out special projects from start to finish.

Ability to balance numerous tasks simultaneously.

Ability to work collaboratively and collegially with other team members, as well as with staff from other Pew Research Center teams.

Ability to balance competing priorities and identify optimal solutions

FLSA Status: Exempt

Compensation: Starting salary is commensurate with experience within the range of $100,000 - $120,000.

Hybrid Work Schedule: Pew Research Center staff are required to be present in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Staff may work virtually from remote locations on other days in a typical work week.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

That's a serious problem, I agree. But trying to keep your papers out won't stop it -- while it will undermine your mission. We need other ways to improve or stop AI companies

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Yes I do think it's better to lose control than lock up research. But that's not the real question, because you can't stop misuse by restricting access - even as you undermine your mission by ... reducing access.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Agree. Good example. Also studies of linguistics or statistics, etc

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

Feeding papers into an LLM ≠ Supporting the plagiarism machine

AI and machine learning are a bundle of techniques and systems, and yeah, they have baggage much like inferential statistics etc, but they also have fair use.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Yep! They're out there in the public record and people can address all kinds of research questions at them that you may not like.

E.g. history of thought research is often about treating published work in different ways from what its authors intended.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

I agree. That's on the list of bad things they do!

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

We do research to contribute to knowledge. That only happens if people can read it. In modern democracies, we don't choose who gets to have the knowledge we produce, thankfully. There are barriers to accessing our research, and we want to reduce them. The ideal is universal access.
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