Kieran Healy

@kjhealy

Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

Durham/Chapel Hill NC
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Joined February 2007
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  1. 17 hours ago

    I think he’s imagining Sylvanian Families? Or maybe Totoro?

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    Trump says people in countries like Austria "live in the forest" and have "forest cities." He says in these areas they "have more explosive trees" than California, but don't have the same kind of fire problems. He says this is because they "thin the fuel."
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  2. Sep 16

    One potential glitch in this argument is that it also applies very well to, e.g., slavery.

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  3. Sep 16

    Hard to pick a peak moment here though, in context, "I love cooking, especially Waitrose ready meals" is particularly good.

    A 58 year old man. Writing this.
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  4. Sep 15

    lol. No. Of the people who do "own stock" in any form—maybe half of Americans?—most of these owners own stock by way of tax-deferred retirement accounts, and are invested in index funds and so on. Relatively few people directly own stock.

    "George, stocks are owned by everybody," Donald Trump says.
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  5. Sep 15

    Finally got my Zoom/remote teaching setup just right, I think.

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  6. Sep 15

    Honestly, the more I look at this the more anxious I get.

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  7. Sep 15

    Just got unexpectedly bitten by a classic bit of double-precision fuckery in the context of filtering on a dbl with dplyr and quite frankly it is making me nervous about the number of errors that are probably associated with it, given how common filter() operations are.

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  8. Sep 14

    Also bonus latent Dune content, for added relevance. I covet that poster.

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  9. Sep 14

    I had a very nice chat recently about data visualization with Brian Fannin, a research actuary with the . We covered a variety of topics from and ggplot to what the community is learning from COVID. You can watch it here:

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  10. Sep 14

    Obviously the first conversation every Humanities and Social Science AP has with their editor about their dissertation book is how many units it'll sell, with numbers expressed in multiples of "Guns, Germs, and Steel".

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  11. Sep 14

    Some people have strange ideas about how much money there is to be made from publishing scholarly monographs.

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  12. Sep 14

    "Mercurial, Saturnine, Jovial … OK, all good, no problems there—actually, wait, you know what let’s just say Jovian to be clear; Martial … hmm yeah, confusing … best make that Maritian. And finally … Venereal. Uh. Look, I know it sounds weird, but better just say 'Venusian'."

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  13. Sep 14

    Earth Astronomers: Hey Venusian Microbes! It's us, your buddies here on Planet 3! Come visit! We'll drive over and pick you up! Venusian Microbes suspended in a boiling atmosphere drenched in sulphuric acid over a surface of melted rock: *peering at Earth in 2020* Nah we're good

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  14. Sep 14

    Duke is still holding steady.

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  15. Sep 14

    Not a bad speaker series, tbh

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  16. Sep 14

    My God, a meteorological map with a properly linear-in-luminance color scale (viridis's magma). There is hope for 2020 yet.

    We are peak season and the Tropical Atlantic is in beast mode right now.
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  17. Sep 13

    Relatedly, Dennett has a review of 's new book in the NYT. I'm very interested to read it, not least because it picks up on an insight of one of my favorite under-appreciated books, Goody's "The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe"

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  18. Sep 13

    Note also the steady gradient in the results that's basically a function of fields that have tended to rely on small-N experimental methods with subjects often drawn from populations of convenience (i.e., undergraduates).

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  19. Sep 13

    The author should be less surprised that EP is v. bad, and glosses over Soc doing almost as well as Econ, but in general this is a sharp overview of a lot of Things That Are Wrong. Many points here generalize easily to the hard sciences, btw.

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  20. Sep 13

    "No Quotation without Habilitation" is my motto

    Wow I got an angry email today from someone because I quote assistant professors. 😣
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