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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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This is good. Universities can't conduct research under conditions that violate their ethics. Decline, don't grovel. www.science.org/content/arti...

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I'm writing in Greta Thunberg and Noam Chomsky

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With father's day around the corner, I thought it'd be interesting to investigate how the age of fatherhood has changed over the decades and see how it compares to the age of motherhood. In general, men have kids later than women do---but both men and women are increasingly delaying having kids.

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It's even worse, BLS was deploying a virtual data access portal which would have expanded researcher access to BLS data. Instead, nearly all access is gone, including for research in progress.

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New from me: "Brad Wilcox lies a lot, part whatever." How his pronatalism says, "Everybody should be able to have the family they want" but means, "We want straight, married people to have more children." familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/b...

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This. There are some serious headwinds on life expectancy in the U.S.

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NEW: ALA is disappointed in today's court ruling denying our request for a preliminary injunction in our lawsuit to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services. But this is not the end. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/06... #ForOurLibraries

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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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