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Jordie Hoffman

@lcdrgeordi.bsky.social
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Biological anthropologist at the University of Utah geordiehoffman.github.io

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Check out our new paper, led by @amandalea.bsky.social, in PLoS Genetics: "Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can computer vision models accurately estimate BMI from faces across diverse human populations? Check out our new preprint led by @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We all know that land leeches are incredibly annoying. In our new paper, we ask: could they also transmit disease? Perhaps so, though local peoples do not seem to recognize them as disease vectors. academic.oup.com/trstmh/advan...
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Ethno-etiology meets virology: land leeches (family: Haemadipsidae) as potential disease vectors
AbstractObjectives. Hematophagous terrestrial leeches are common in rainforest habitats and widely regarded as pests. Despite limited research, circumstant
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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 14/04/2026
1. In this paper, we included this word cloud of the top 200 words in the volume Man the Hunter. A reader wondered how could the top 200 words in a book with the title "Man the Hunter" include "woman" but not "man"? Doh! 🧪 #rstats #BioAnth #AcademicSky 🧵
The top 200 words in the original word cloud (not in order of frequency):

settlement
birdsell
vary
complex
bear
archeological
specific
winter
average
call
understand
residence
change
expect
total
adaptation
region
ecology
move
percent
close
record
share
central
occupy
disease
exist
feature
vegetable
community
development
knowledge
common
single
territory
analysis
primary
distribution
occupation
maintain
reason
territorial
modern
represent
level
chapter discussion
nature
increase
relationship
simple
find
kinship
practice
section
estimate
type
water
south
period
eskimo
bushman
species
require
condition
economic
organization
subsistence
base
relate
density
pattern
provide
carry
obtain
north
child
size
animal
society
evidence
researchrule
question
ecological
male
tribe
tie
people
life
define
family
female
activity
gather
band
unit
food
forest
square
bring
human
model
material
marry
rate
kill
structure
form
local
time
mile
hunt
marriage
site
note
sense
land
adult
evolution aboriginal
fish
live
term
hunter
social
early
australia
paper
function
determine
world
variation
relation
supply
symposium
degree
person
hadza
population
hand
occur
gatherer
tool
coast
mother
limit
system
include
situation
task
variable
woman
behavior
camp
datum
view
plant
extend
factor
resource
mean
ethnographic
individual
study
detail
source
cultural
tribal
australian
range
remain
result meat
lack
field
aborigine
suggest
culture
large
game
figure
report
discuss
process
difference
environment
importance
table
involve
river
pleistocene
kind
season
control
exchange
collect
similar
wife
mammal
diet
basis
recent
subsection
prehistoric
deal
composition
observe
account
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’m happy to announce that our paper "The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter" has now been published in Evolution and Human Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I am in Paris right now, the final home of Georges Condominas, so I saw it fitting to mention it is his birthday today! He is famous for his avant-garde ethnographic writing style, which would now be akin to reflexive ethnography. 🧵 (1/3)
Georges Condominas sitting in a chair smoking a lit cigar.
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Ray Hames made foundational contributions to human behavioral ecology in topics as diverse as food & labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, kinship, & parental investment, & served HBES & other societies in multiple roles. Congrats to Ray for winning the HBES Lifetime Achievement Award!
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A European robin! While very cute, male robins are known to attack other small birds without provocation and even their own reflection.
A European robin perched on a handrail.The same European robin perched on an overturned pot of grass.
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New research shows water de-fluoridation “disproportionately affects uninsured children.” Glad to see Calgary bringing fluoridated water back! Great news for the dental health of kids in low-income households. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride From US Public Water Systems
This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates a large sample of US children to determine the associations of fluoridation cessation with oral health and national dental care costs.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Colleagues at MIT on the evolution of street life: "...the average walking speed has increased by 15%, while the time spent lingering ... has halved." "...the frequency of group encounters declined ... urban residents increasingly view streets as thoroughfares rather than as social spaces."
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Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Photos are in from #uofucsbs research day. Featuring my ongoing master’s project about bias in ML models that predict BMI from photographs.
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ProSocial World @prosocialworld.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Evolutionary anthropologist Vivek Venkataraman and renowned scientist David Sloan Wilson dig into how early human societies developed. 🔗Don't miss out, come along! www.prosocial.world/events/democ... #Evolution #Biology #Academic #Podcast #History #Science #ProSocial
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Plantufrøðiligur urtagarður on another gorgeous day :)
A grassy hill with pink flowers alongside a gravel trail leading to a stone house. A patch of purple and green growthA bright blue sky overlooking a rocky beach.A photo from the rocky beach of the ocean with seaweed and grassy hills in the backdrop.
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New research shows LLMs may outperform humans in shifting others' opinions. But these results come with some important caveats… (1/7) 🧵
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Tonight London time 18:30 with Vivek Venkataraman. Everyone welcome, just join the Zoom!
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Let’s not fall for the “lump of labour” fallacy. During the Depression, banning married women from work didn’t reduce unemployment; it deepened inequality. Gendered job cuts didn’t fix the economy; they worsened conditions for the most economically vulnerable families. (1/4)🧵
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
No matter where I go in the world, pigeons have acted like an anchor when I feel lonely. Each time I see one, I’m reminded of home and feel a little closer to the people and places that make me feel safe. 🧵
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Jordie Hoffman @lcdrgeordi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The guard geese won’t let me take up close pictures of the baby lambs :( #faroeislands
Guard goose looking almost as stern as SLC’s ID bouncers.Baby lambs - one nursing from its momma.Momma sheep calling out to me while I snap a photo.
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Our team recently took a deep dive into the history of Man the Hunter. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... I learned some very surprising things about interactions between popular writers and practicing anthropologists. 🧵 below
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What does the phrase Man the Hunter mean? It’s everywhere in popular discourse, but rarely defined. As a diverse group of hunter-gatherer scholars, we offer a new history and analysis of this controversial phrase. osf.io/preprints/os...
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