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Joseph N. Cohen

@jncohen.bsky.social
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Department of Sociology and Faculty in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research at CUNY Queens College.

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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
OMG please make this happen: Canada’s European pivot: Could an inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest be next? share.google/UAV3ApJ5f8eJ...
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Explained: Why is Canada pushing to join Eurovision?
Canada is exploring the possibility of joining Eurovision, something officials say reflects the country's effort to assert its cultural independence and deepen ties with Europe. The EBU has confirmed ...
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Perhaps it would be good for all of us if we were all able to "put the phone in the pocket" during the workday. But I need to authenticate something like every fifteen minutes.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I don't think it's gaming. It is online extremism. Extremism appears in gaming, but you are better off looking directly at the source.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The post will be on display at the AI Civil Rights Museum in 2065.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I am understanding Abundance and neoliberalism to be very similar.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Wild. Communications is getting degraded by AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle
A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I literally just got a free ride when I already paid.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
When using AI for R code, default to base R. Packages don't always save effort or prevent bugs. Use packages only if base R fails, is too slow, or produces excessive code. Base R with AI is often easier to understand, less buggy, easier to debug, and just as efficient.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New York City is always trying to throw you off the islands, out of the City, and eventually out of the metro. It's like there is a constant repulsive force related to the cost of living, space, and hassle. You hang on as long as you can because there is so much to love. But it is not free or easy.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Identity and Control: The Movie
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 24/03/2025
this pic from the turkish protests goes insanely hard
man in a black jumpsuit, fez, and gas mask gestures in front of police
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is really good: "Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
People are sanctimonious when they can live by their preachings without sacrificing anything
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This fight with Trump is introducing some very uncomfortable questions for Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Is Tim Hortons Canadian? | CBC News
Amid the patriotic fervour whipped up by tariff and annexation threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, the debate over whether Tim Hortons is Canadian is as hot as a double double.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Early in my career, I studied the 1970s economy and understood what happened on a logical level. I had read about it and looked at data, but did not live through it. I now understand that I did not fully appreciate the emotional effects of seeing so much going to pot at once.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It is amazing. America stood at the top as hegemon of the biggest world system ever seen in history. And then it DECIDED to wreck that system from its perch. It is so crazy to think about how well-positioned America was across the board. And then it flipped the game board.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What I would like most is for American Jews to be out of the spotlight. Nothing good comes from us being the focus of attention.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/03/2025
Measles continues to spread in the U.S. with more than 250 people infected — many unvaccinated school-age children. See where on our map tracking the virus here: nyti.ms/3Fp1am9
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is a good idea. Clearly, demonizing one of the country's largest demographic groups is not a winner. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
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Democrats Turn to Sports Radio and Podcasts to Try to Reach Young Men
Prominent leaders are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts, an early sign of how the party is trying to reach apolitical young men who have tilted toward President Trump.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Measles is back. Get your immunity checked and consider a booster if necessary. It's already in NY, NJ, and Ontario.
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Do You Need Another Measles Shot?
New York officials have released a health advisory about the disease as cases surge in Texas. They advise checking your vaccination record.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Isn't a national crypto reserve just the government buying people's crypto? It's not as if the government needs to hold crypto in case we have an emergency need for crypto.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's Ramadan, which means I'll have no problem finding out what time the sun sets.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So, is getting a booster for the MMR vaccine in adulthood a thing? Is there a logic to doing it as an adult if measles is going to run through the country over the next few years?
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tables from the first draft of a memo that I circulated in my department to discuss long-term departmental strategy. Sharing in case anyone else is interested. Not peer reviewed. First draft. Largest Sociology Departments by Majors Graduated, 2023 jncohen.commons.gc.cuny.edu/analysis-of-...
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
February 24, 2025. U.S. Measles outbreaks during the past week. Source: @kkjetelina.bsky.social Get your kids vaxxed. Believe me, you don't want them to come down with it.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is why I'm hard to reach by text. I purposely put away the phone. The crazy thing is that everyone gets mad at you for not being instantly available.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump has a one-in-100,000 chance of this working with English Canada, but there's absolutely zero chance of Quebec allowing itself to be absorbed into America. Quebec has spent centuries resisting assimilation to Anglo culture. No way.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well, neoliberalism appears to be on its death bed. Not as awesome as you imagined, is it?
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Over 150 Canadians died in Afghanistan. USA called on them to fight as part of NATO. And while they brought in Canadians to fight for the USA's emergency self-defense, the US started an extra war in Iraq. That's blood spilled for America. It's painful to see this needless sacrifice dismissed.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Wait. So Trump gets the ball rolling with a TikTok Ban. Eventually, the country agrees on implementing a ban. The nation's youth are heartbroken. Then, Trump himself lobbies to reverse the ban he started, succeeds, gets thanked by the app itself, and now has the nation's teens feeling grateful.
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Howard Ramos @somardrawoh.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Not just my imagination, more and more use of the term "existential crisis"
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I got my undergrad soc at Carleton U's international biz program. I loved the courses on culture and organizations, as well as methods. In their soc dept, a prof is fighting extradition to France after being convicted of murdering French Jews in a synagogue bombing. Business school was fine to me.
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tech himbo @tech-himbo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2024
🚨 ATTENTION THEORYCELS: PEAK FOUCAULT HAS BEEN REACHED 🚨 ANNUAL CITATIONS FOR FOUCAULT HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE 2020 YOU CAN STOP PRETENDING TO HAVE READ FOUCAULT, AND INSTEAD PRETEND TO BE ABOVE READING FOUCAULT
a bar chart of michel foucault's citations per year. it peaks in 2019 at 84,000.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Why? Isn't satire protected?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/12/2024
"Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state,” writes Noah Hawley:
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Journalism’s What If Problem
Too many reporters are writing fiction.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/11/2024
"What I’m trying to say is that if you want a safe and functional road, guardrails are only part of the solution. The rest of it is stuff like maintenance, adherence to the law, and upholding a very basic sense of human decency."
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I’m a Guardrail, and I Don’t Know What the Fuck You People Want from Me
Okay, so look. I’m your basic galvanized steel thrie-beam guardrail. My job is to keep vehicles from flying off the escarpment and squishing all th...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Married 25 year-olds In 1980: 63% In 2021: 22% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart shows that 25 year olds in the US in 2021 lagged behind 25 year olds in 1980 in getting married, having kids and being in a home independent of their parents.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Are digital distractions harming labour productivity?
The evidence is mixed; it seems clear, however, that they are making us unhappier
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
HIRING SOCIOLOGY, DATA ANALYSIS & SOC SCI METHODS ADJUNCT INSTRUCTORS IN NYC Queens College Sociology is hiring adjunct instructors for 2025 - 2026. $91+/hour lecturing plus benefits. For more, visit: qcsociology.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/11/17/q...
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Queens College Sociology is Searching for Instructors – QC Sociology
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Now I'm definitely logging off and doing the work that I actually sat down to do
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I disagree. Anything *can* be construed as involving politics, but not all science is political. For example, what are the politics of network theory? Of estimating the income distribution of households in New York City? Of developing methods to make inferences when missing data is an issue?
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
OK, this is all fun and exciting, but I'm also remembering how much time I used to sink into Twitter. I should get back to the actual work that I had intended to do when sitting down this morning.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Bravo to whoever did the work of these starter packs! At an instant, my time line has that 2018 feel
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My main concern as a parent would be that teaching blind love and obedience to church and state would undercut my own child's ability to judge whether the church or state were working against their personal interests, which has happened throughout history.
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Joseph N. Cohen @jncohen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I feel an immediate sense of kinship with any kid who is deep into almanacs. I also like buying almanacs for kids who I think would like them. These are my people. Almanac people.
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