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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

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Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof at Baylor Anth | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨Preprint alert 🚨

Forager food-sharing is often portrayed as “a positive insistence on equality” (Woodburn) or an “instinct” to equalise inequalities (Fehr). A new paper with @kris-smith.bsky.social, exploring Hadza reallocation decisions, challenges this view. 1/10 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The 'I' in Egalitarianism: Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Averse to Inequality Primarily when Personally Unfavourable

Many anthropologists and economists contend that humans are characterized by strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary root

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 4h

Google news has drastically over-extrapolated from my search history.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 4h

Ironheart sanforise almost their whole range and have some of the most durable, highest quality denim in the market.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 4h

You can, however, use modern sanforization techniques on shuttle-loom denim without compromising the quality of the fabric. People get really hung up on the "raw" (I.e. Shrink2fit) thing but it's, like, the least important variable.

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James van der Moezel @vandacorp.bsky.social · 3d

Australian king parrot in the backyard over the weekend.

#Australia #Canberra #spring #october #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #BirdingAdventures #Ornithology #parrot #bird

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 2d

IMAGINE NO LONGER!

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man, can you get USB-C to RCA? Imagine Julia.

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 2d

To the Durham Constabulary's credit, a member of the public had reported me, probably because my swift & graceful bike mounting technique made me seem like practiced thief.

Unbeknownst to me, they chased me from New Elvett to Gilesgate. Only let me go when I found the receipt.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 2d

The Durham police once detained me in one of these cars for half an hour because they thought I had stolen my own bike.

Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 3d

Toronto could learn something from police cars in Durham, UK. Many are small and economical instead of big SUVs. Toronto police tell pedestrians to dress up like Durham police dress up their cars- bright and easy to see. Oh, and the yellow stripe? It designates a parking area labelled ”police.”

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 3d

Time to flock to the polls for Australia's biggest beak-off 🐦

Cast your vote for Bird of the Year 2025:
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#BirdOfTheYear

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 7d

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply!

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

I've found a couple of my articles in AI datasets - which I consider to be my own tiny act of sabotage ❤️.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

My subject and topic area is v. different but I'd be happy to share. Idk if you can send pdfs on bluesky but send me an email on my Baylor address.

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

Not just actual science but among the most important discoveries to come out of anthropology in the 20th century.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 7d

as a grad student I was interested in what human perceptual phenomena were shared with other species. I picked up "The chimpanzees of Gombe" at the library

I remember being amazed that Goodall, a household name for popular science, had done inspiringly excellent *actual* science too

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

I had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall once. She was an inspiration to behavioral scientists, anthropologists, and conservationists; and a trailblazer in a male-dominated profession. Rest in Peace.

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Baylor Anthropology @bayloranthro.bsky.social · 8d

Humongous congratulations to not one, not two, but THREE of our grad students — Anna Samsonov, Lizzy Kim, and Teddy Thum — for securing competitive Doctoral Dissertation Research awards from the NSF Biological Anthropology.

We are lucky to have such exceptional grads.

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 12d

What if they pay me!

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 15d

Spotted this boat on Flores. I wonder what it's for?

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15d

Personally I count Gladiator as his best contribution to the alien universe. It's a prequel.

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 15d

everyone loves hating on Ridley Scott’s later contributions to the alien universe but without him we’d never have gotten a fictional peter weyland TED Talk screaming at the FDA for not letting him do illegal shit

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15d

it's cool that american biotech regulation is basically in line with what balaji srinivasan wants and at no point will these guys actually get a good medical treatment out of it

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15d

Ironically much too much credit is exactly the problem.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15d

Describing tether as a us dollar wrapper does it much too much credit.

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 15d

Tether, U.S. Dollar wrapper is worth $500B!

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15d

I'm still amazed there hasn't been a run on tether franky. It's backed by, like, 60 percent "cash equivalent assets". When it happens it will be explosive.