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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s either a weft beater or a butter knife 😉

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

indeed ... y'all have a nice day now!

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes, and this explains why Americans are such nice, polite people compared with grumpy Europeans

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not aware of any young people doing fieldwork of the kind that used to be basic to an anthropology apprenticeship, so I guess it's correct ("auto-ethnography" doesn't count, I regret to say). Only linguists keeping fieldwork alive now?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Article I wrote with Sandra Sardjono last year, on the remarkable survival of samite weaving (believed to be extinct since the late medieval period) amongst a few rural weavers in a remote part of Yunnan province www.researchgate.net/publication/...

detail of a samite textile with a design of birds and pearls, from Yunnan province, China

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

also, doing away with the chat will move us away from the notion that the damn thing is conscious

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, the gallon is smaller here, but we have MORE of them! Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I live in America and I can confirm that everything is bigger

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coming soon ... not the end of humanity, but a nasty AI-powered virus, cooked up by an idiot in a garage, that can impersonate everyone hooked up to your server, including you. It will knock 0.5% off growth and it will keep coming back, like measles and covid

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jade is usually described as "carved", but in fact it is ground ... laboriously. I suspect this is a similar case

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Thursday 17 Sept I will be giving a talk at the Max Planck Institute for the history of science (MPIWG) in Berlin, title is "Signal to Noise: the Transmission of Traditional Weaving Cultures". It's part of the IASSRT symposium, and open to anyone to attend

Mother and daughter warping a loom, in Flores, Indonesia

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

after being asked to write 15,529,567 undergraduate essays the robot grew weary ...

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I lived in China (Guanghzhou, Beijing, Lhasa) for 20 years during the '90s and '00s, saw the recovery from forced collectivization, and the liberalization of the economy at first hand. The best thing Mao ever did was to depart this life. Xi is no Mao, but is turning the clock back in some respects

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I lived in China for 20 years during the '90s and '00s, saw the transformation in the towns and villages and the gradual recovery from collectivization "experiments". The best thing Mao ever did for his people was depart this life

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎙️ EP #23 Is the drive to seek status a human universal? What are the ways in which humans seek status cross-culturally? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with anthropologist @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social youtu.be/7pDGe2bp3m4

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Cultural Varieties of Status-Seeking | Chris von Rueden

YouTube video by The Cognitations Podcast

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It does occur to me that the individual volumes should have been called "Sides" and the chapters "Rashers".

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Comparision of philosophers and alchemists: "The one never faileth to multiply words, the other ever faileth to multiply gold" ...

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One philosophising: "all the disputation of the learned never brought to light one effect of nature before unknown"

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On models and representations: "knowledge is a double of that which is"

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Volume II of a ten volume set of Francis Bacon's works, 20 pounds from the Oxfam bookshop. Not sure what happened to the other 9 vols, but then again I'm not likely to read 10 volumes so this one will do. This does contain some choice quotes of which I provide a sample ...

Volume 2 of Francis Bacon's complete works

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What impacts have I noticed from AI? 1. All illustrations now look like they were done by the same children's book illustrator. 2. The internet is full of slop. 3. Can't tell which videos are real. 4. Computers are more expensive. 5. Teaching became harder 6. Er, that's it.

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes, because “social justice” is a contested concept, whereas curing cancer is not

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Study of bone daggers in New Guinea ... significant association (p=0.0001) between dagger style and language for daggers produced before WWII, but not after. Authors suggest this is because later daggers were produced for collectors/tourists vs indigenous peoples www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Social networks, language, and material culture on New Guinea

PDF | It is common in both the popular imagination and in scientific research to treat humans as members of distinctive ethnolinguistic groups,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know that none of you would even dream of doing this

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If more proof is required that AI, the internet, and everything associated with it is evil, there is this version that one of my so-called "friends" sent me

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Image of a "medieval loom" (AI generated, of course) from an online article. Kids are doing their homework with this s**t. For shame. vehi-mercatus.com/The-inventio...

AI generated image of a medieval loom, actually complete nonsense

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Václav Hrnčíř @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you’re at the #EAA2026 in Athens, I’d like to invite you to our session tomorrow at 14:00.

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the second on Sat 29th August at 3.30pm (session 141, room 637) is on the comparision of the material cultures of four small scale societies in New Guinea, focusing on differences between objects and manufacturing techniques and correlations with languages. See you there!

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Attending European Archaeology conf in Athens? I will be giving two talks. The first, with Guillaume Jacques, on Thurs 27th at 8.45am (session 191, room 640) on a novel method for analysing spindle whorl data, and its application to trace the spread of weaving in East Asia ...

a map showing the emergence and spread of weaving technologies in East Asia

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This one sounds interesting. It is my belief that all stone tool typologies could benefit from the application of more Continental philosophy

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trying to figure out which talks to attend at the upcoming European Archaeology conference in Athens. It is hard because I can't even understand the titles of many of them

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

agree! ... the more personal and individual we make our work, the harder it is to replicate. Printing costs are coming down, but as most texts are pdfs these days or on online uni systems this matters less anyway

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For example, this is a screenshot of a page spread I am working on concerning weaving ethnography. Nothing is guaranteed AI-proof, but it will be difficult to replicate this without infringing image copyrights

A page spread of a draft book on weaving technologies

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This issue is set to grow. One partial solution is to make more use of copyrighted illustrations (photographs and diagrams) to make key points, with close integration of illustrations with text. Most books would be better with more high quality illustrations (printing cost is no longer an issue).

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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When talking about AI, scientific publishing etc. this is the situation now out there... fairly dire. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

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Who Is Blake Whiting? - The American Scholar

The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

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Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The musical bow display case has historical significance. The bows were collected by Henry Balfour, the first full-time curator, and one of the first to realise the potential of wide-area surveys of material culture

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