Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
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Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation
doi.org
📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
I've heard social media described as the public square. But this analogy only works if there's a dude hiding in the clocktower who can raise and lower the volume on people's voices.
Algorithmic content sorting is probably one of the most important political issues & propaganda tools of the 21st century; yet it's something that policy-makes can barely comprehend let alone legislate.
I’m glad to see on platform ranking algorithm work done without platform scientists in the mix.
I think it’s quite telling that, by the only means we have to verify Metas election collaborations results… we can’t confirm their claims of little to no effect.
I think it’s quite telling that, by the only means we have to verify Metas election collaborations results… we can’t confirm their claims of little to no effect.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've heard social media described as the public square. But this analogy only works if there's a dude hiding in the clocktower who can raise and lower the volume on people's voices.
Algorithmic content sorting is probably one of the most important political issues & propaganda tools of the 21st century; yet it's something that policy-makes can barely comprehend let alone legislate.
I’m glad to see on platform ranking algorithm work done without platform scientists in the mix.
I think it’s quite telling that, by the only means we have to verify Metas election collaborations results… we can’t confirm their claims of little to no effect.
I think it’s quite telling that, by the only means we have to verify Metas election collaborations results… we can’t confirm their claims of little to no effect.
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Algorithmic content sorting is probably one of the most important political issues & propaganda tools of the 21st century; yet it's something that policy-makes can barely comprehend let alone legislate.
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For the curious, I have put the author accepted manuscript of our new BBS Target Article on researchgate.
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For the curious, I have put the author accepted manuscript of our new BBS Target Article on researchgate.
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I eventually gave in and watched KPop Demon Hunters to see what the fuss was about and it was so much fun. Hugely campy joyous nonsense; Mama Mia for the tiktok generation.
Tres recommend if it looks like it might be in or at all adjacent to your wheelhouse.
Tres recommend if it looks like it might be in or at all adjacent to your wheelhouse.
I occasionally post about KPop Demon Hunters and will continue to indefinitely so because it's just the most positive thing to happen in 2025. Not only a great positive movie, animation, music, all that, but a runaway success for a huge range of incredibly humble, sincere and deserving creatives.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I eventually gave in and watched KPop Demon Hunters to see what the fuss was about and it was so much fun. Hugely campy joyous nonsense; Mama Mia for the tiktok generation.
Tres recommend if it looks like it might be in or at all adjacent to your wheelhouse.
Tres recommend if it looks like it might be in or at all adjacent to your wheelhouse.
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🚨 DEADLINE 🚨
EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀
Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029!
Deadline? December 16/12/2025
More information?👇 👇 👇
EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀
Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029!
Deadline? December 16/12/2025
More information?👇 👇 👇
EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀
If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!
If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!
DEADLINE: 16/12/2026
HERE IS THE FORM 👇
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If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president!
If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary!
DEADLINE: 16/12/2026
HERE IS THE FORM 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHBEACommitteeNominationForm_Pres_Sec.doc
EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 DEADLINE 🚨
EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀
Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029!
Deadline? December 16/12/2025
More information?👇 👇 👇
EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀
Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029!
Deadline? December 16/12/2025
More information?👇 👇 👇
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Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
Reposted by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
Reposted by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
recommend sharing and using these two feeds
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
recommend sharing and using these two feeds
Reposted by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
I've not had a chance to properly try either of these custom feeds out yet, but they look like they're both a bit better at serving relevant network/research content than the default discover feed!
For You is a custom feed that is better than Bluesky’s Discover (linked it below)
Do you know about Paper Skygest? bsky.app/profile/did:...
Do you know about Paper Skygest? bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I've not had a chance to properly try either of these custom feeds out yet, but they look like they're both a bit better at serving relevant network/research content than the default discover feed!
When the cats away (my wife and children), the mice shall have a thee-hour-long bath (me).
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
When the cats away (my wife and children), the mice shall have a thee-hour-long bath (me).
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Hurray for prior predictive checks!
Working on a toy model for a blog post that presumably will come out at some point. Figured I'd write up a prior predict check to make sure those priors make sense. Ended up getting 10 m (10000 mm) wide sheep tibias. A different post! Also time to tighten priors
Working on a toy model for a blog post that presumably will come out at some point. Figured I'd write up a prior predict check to make sure those priors make sense. Ended up getting 10 m (10000 mm) wide sheep tibias. A different post! Also time to tighten priors
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Hurray for prior predictive checks!
Working on a toy model for a blog post that presumably will come out at some point. Figured I'd write up a prior predict check to make sure those priors make sense. Ended up getting 10 m (10000 mm) wide sheep tibias. A different post! Also time to tighten priors
Working on a toy model for a blog post that presumably will come out at some point. Figured I'd write up a prior predict check to make sure those priors make sense. Ended up getting 10 m (10000 mm) wide sheep tibias. A different post! Also time to tighten priors
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Since so many people here probably just see very recent posts (or re-posts), it’s okay to do some self-loving - go ahead and hit the re-post button on your own post that may have been overlooked.
Could be that my posts are just bad and unengaging - but I also miss other people's posts that I'd have been interested in, so I think it's an algo thing.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Since so many people here probably just see very recent posts (or re-posts), it’s okay to do some self-loving - go ahead and hit the re-post button on your own post that may have been overlooked.
Bluesky seems far worse than Twitter at ensuring your content gets seen by your proximate academic network.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
Before the monstrous transformation of Twitter to X, it was considered normal to be active on academic Twitter. Now, even though we've migrated to Bluesky ("safe space"), I feel that many ppl (including myself) are less active in posting anything. Have you noticed this trend? Or am I imagining this?
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Bluesky seems far worse than Twitter at ensuring your content gets seen by your proximate academic network.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
Discover let's you see the big posts, followed shows you whay people posted in the last five minutes - but the in between posts get lost in the cracks.
For the curious, I have put the author accepted manuscript of our new BBS Target Article on researchgate.
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For the curious, I have put the author accepted manuscript of our new BBS Target Article on researchgate.
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can view it here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Ladies and gentlemen: academia.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: academia.
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📢 Call for abstracts!
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
Overview | EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 Call for abstracts!
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
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Abstract submission for CES 2026 in Rabat has been extended to 30th November! @ces2026.bsky.social
The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!
The submission deadline for #CESRabat has been extended to 30 November
@ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
@ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Abstract submission for CES 2026 in Rabat has been extended to 30th November! @ces2026.bsky.social
Treeschool!
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Treeschool!
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This is a mammoth piece of measurement work for evolutionary psychiatry, that hopefully triggers more rigorous testing of evolutionary theories of mental health.
Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share
Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is a mammoth piece of measurement work for evolutionary psychiatry, that hopefully triggers more rigorous testing of evolutionary theories of mental health.
Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share
Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth
Good to talk with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode on Sapiens, my favourite book. They really went the extra mile to make sure the science was solid.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Good to talk with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode on Sapiens, my favourite book. They really went the extra mile to make sure the science was solid.
Update on my "Brit in America" naturalisation process: someone just tried to give me a high five and I shook their hand.
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Update on my "Brit in America" naturalisation process: someone just tried to give me a high five and I shook their hand.