Philip N Cohen

@familyunequal

Writer, sociologist, demographer. Director of @SocArXiv. Blog: http://FamilyInequality.com. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/philipncohen.com

University of Maryland

Joined May 2009

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · 8 h

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/wo5bGSV Have to agree with Christopher Marcum here: ift.tt/vmaLMcj

familyunequal's tweet card. Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees...

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · 11 h

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/5pCrZGg If After the Spike is a longtermist intervention, why don't Spears and Geruso say that in the book? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · 15 h

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/yt6hxnA This I agree with. Aging is a social challenge that pronatalism does not speak to. Also, pronatalism may be a bigger problem. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · 17 h

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/pGFf8h6 Pronatalism "'is an ideology that reappears in times when there are autocratic, dictatorial and totalitarian systems.' ... Two of the ideological pillars of the movement are misogyny and racism, based on a deep na… ift.tt/bqOacy4

familyunequal's tweet card. La ideologia, amb un marcat caràcter misogin i racista, cada cop té més seguidors als Estats Units, però també a Rússia i en alguns països europeus, com Polònia i Hongria

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · 22 h

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/HrpZo5a The relationship between population growth and economic growth is the subject of centuries of research and debate. Here are some simple and very limited observations using World Bank data from 1960 to 2023. /1

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 22

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/0hAUin1 Exactly this [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 21

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/iskVnQF Every generation "dies out." That's not a tragedy. If humanity as a whole "dies out," is it a tragedy? What if everyone lives their best life having an average of 1.6 children, just what they want, for 100 generations and then humanity e…

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 20

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/ou9KxCR In their PLOS One paper (ift.tt/lVvmxQq), Spears et al. say their historical population data are "taken from" this PRB source (ift.tt/Ss15KDo). In their new book they say the historical data are "based on" the same sour…

familyunequal's tweet card. The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 20

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/g0cwamW Could generations discourse be stupider? We sent "a 28-year-old content creator who said she identified as a millennial (but leaned toward Gen Z when it came to technology)" to find out ift.tt/gs7MAqN ift.tt/FNywQzY

familyunequal's tweet card. A generational debate has started over Gen Z’s tendency to respond to various social situations with a long and intentional stare.

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 19

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/BsoTQfw The next 50 years are going to be a slog (montgomery county md)

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 19

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/Ra4TSHq Haven't read @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's article yet, but disagree with her at least 70% here. I do think there is a problem with sociologists confusing politics for theory (and thus above scientific critique), but I don't think they sho…

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 18

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/lehsYJx I wonder if anyone followed up to see what became of their prize insurance policies after the world war.

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 17

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/OqSlm2t "The more fragile the man, the more muscular the metaphor. Trump as Superman is not just an image of strength. It is a response to weakness. And that weakness is not just his. It is symbolic of a broader crisis of masculine authority in …

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 16

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/7XJ1B8w Although it tried mightily, the effect failed to reach statistical significance.

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 16

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/g10vhA7 Ironically, Ivy League graduate Don Jr. not knowing what "vindication" means is a vindication of a lot of woke nonsense about higher education. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 15

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/2UPsrov People who use the term "host population" a lot when talking about Jewish history are sometimes problematic [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 15

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/UcgRSIj Climate science has always been a target of fake open science concern. I guess with only one planet there's no replication opportunity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 15

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/x1letYb Climate.gov went away on June 23. Now you get redirected to NOAA.gov/climate, and it says that "In compliance with" the Gold Standard Science executive order and the OSTP guidance memo, is gone.…

familyunequal's tweet card. NOAA experts provide data, tools and information to help people understand and prepare for a changing climate.

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 14

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/7zgtPQV Actual words spoken by secretary of HHS: "The national debt is also a social determinant of health. If we're leaving our kids with these giant debts, they can't afford healthcare, they can't afford good food." [contains quote post or ot…

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Philip N Cohen@familyunequal · Jul 14

New on Bluesky: ift.tt/G3HO06o Today I am announcing Project 101G. UN projections are optimistic. World population may peak at 10 billion in 2050. If global net reproduction then is only 1.6 children per woman, we have just 101 generations after that before running ou…

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