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Alexander Kim

@kchs.bsky.social

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Sociology PhD student @ Duke hashtags cultural change and cultural evolution of the arts | kimchs.github.io

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 02/10/2026

Data from a government source? Time for the standard tool:

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a *very* cool paper

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A little context. The salience argument is borrowed from doi.org/10.1017/ehs..... The paper as a whole owes most to articles on topical change and cohort replacement by @tedunderwood.com, @stephenvaisey.com, @babeheim.bsky.social @sobchuk.bsky.social

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Opinions on hard-to-discuss topics change more via cohort replacement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Opinions on hard-to-discuss topics change more via cohort replacement - Volume 6

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I speculate that the reason period, and not cohort, effects played the major role in changes in prose and poetry lies in the salience of forms: while topics are relatively hard to observe, prose and poetry can be identified quickly, which makes them easy to encounter repeatedly and to imitate.

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In contrast to recent studies on topical change, I find little evidence that prose and poetry dynamics were driven by cohort replacement. Instead, I attribute the observed literary shift primarily to period effects.

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Published! In my new article, I apply the bounding analysis of age, period, and cohort effects to test whether the rise and fall of poetry and prose in Russian literature can be explained by cohort replacement. Out in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

From the archive of the author of De la grammatologie des graphiques

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Katherine Verdery wrote a book about being surveilled during her ethnographic fieldwork in communist Romania: www.dukeupress.edu/my-life-as-a...

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My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

horny, ergo sum

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/08/r...

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Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 24/02/2025

Some background on the paper might be interesting to help contextualise and put the results in a broader perspective. Another quick 🧵!

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! The Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024 are out, and I'm pleased to share my paper on the long-term publishing survival of Russian novels. ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/pap...

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Alexander Kim @kchs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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