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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 philipncohen.com
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Hello demography: I haven't done my own projections in a while. Last time I used U.S. Census Bureau's Demographic Analysis and Population Projection System (DAPPS). It seemed cool. Is there something easier or better that I should use instead (that doesn't require learning R)? Thanks!

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Eight years ago today Trump blocked me and others on Twitter, leading to Knight Institute v. Trump, in which he lost a series of federal court decisions protecting the First Amendment. @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/cases/knight...

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Martin Nordin: Sweden's government wants to make the country less attractive to migrants. When multiple countries do this, the welfare of immigrants is eroded – but it doesn't reduce migration to the EU.

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Basket Case: What the NBA pays men is 80 times what it pays women--way out of proportion with the relative revenue generated by women's teams. Nobel Prize winning economist Claudia Goldin's detailed take-down could be a game changer. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

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This U.S. true but the wrong argument for me. If we dispassionately assess US government and society, why could we conclude that American losing its global dominance of science is bad for the world and humanity? /1

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Steel Pulse opening for Herbie Hancock, Pier 84 NYC, August 1984. (The last 40 years have been disappointing.)

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Social scientists have called this out for a while. From my own work to Latrica Best, Aaron Panofsky, Evelyn Hammonds, Reanne Frank, Alondra Nelson, Jonathan Kahn, Oliver Rollins, Rina Bliss, Ruha Benjamin, Troy Duster, & many more. Race as proxy fails because racial groups are not a genetic reality

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JD currently watching his back

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But if he's deported to South Africa will he just come back as a refugee?

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Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

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“Our mere identity as Palestinians is controversial, we are told; not even our children, not even our dead, can be celebrated or memorialized.” Our latest from Jennifer Zacharia:

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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EPA Removes Information About its HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council (via @envirodgi.bsky.social) envirodatagov.org/epa-removes-...

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Shoutout to @n8swick.bsky.social for using his American Birding Podcast platform to inform listeners about the “big, beautiful bill” (🤮) for birds and birding, including the likely demise of the Breeding Bird Survey program and the Bird Banding Lab.

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We're embarrassingly late to the party but congratulations to our own @philipncohen.com, recipient of this year's Kohli Foundation Infrastructure Prize for Sociology for his work with @socarxiv.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

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Finish The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social. Highly recommend! A few things that really sunk in with me: 1. Calling a lot of different kinds of automation "AI" is a mystique that makes them all seem more powerful. /1

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New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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Look what arrived today! A fantastic read - years of reflections from our very own @brankomilan.bsky.social. @stone-lis.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

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We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Katharine Khanna will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in fall 2025! She is currently with us as a UMD President's Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations, Kate! More at socy.umd.edu/news/kathari...

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What foreign power could do as much damage to the United States as Trump is doing to it right now? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Best demography movie ever. I just finally read the book, which is quite different, and liked it a lot as well.

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Anyone have a syllabus on Family Policy (any discipline, but especially sociology, HDFS, psychology, economics, health) they'd be willing to share? #CoursePrep #AcademicSky

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I would show you the usage ratio of "bacon egg and cheese" to "bacon cheese and egg" but it's undefined

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