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Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
40
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 ind · 115 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
32×
Follows 166 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Two new Denisovan fossils have emerged from the seafloor of the Penghu Strait, near Taiwan. I look at what these tell us about the survival of Denisovans into the time frame of the “classic” Neanderthals.
www.johnhawks.net/p/legs-of-th...
Had a great email question on superarchaic gene flow this morning and the possible implications of human chromosome fusion. I did address in this post on the fusion of chromosome 2: Introgression and gene flow often happens despite differe…
“An average effect size of 285 grams per copy means that around 200,000 metric tons of human muscle can be attributed to this Neanderthal inheritance. That’s two aircraft carriers worth of mass.”
www.johnhawks.net/p/how-neande...
The story of “The petite bodies of the robust australopithecines” is changing in light of the last 15 years of evidence, and footprints are leading the way.
www.johnhawks.net/p/the-big-fe...
Interesting twist in a new paper: Introgression deserts aren't actually deserted. “Our findings suggest that ghost ancestry is often present in previously defined archaic deserts, providing additional context to putative Homo sapiens–speci…
I’m fascinated today reading a recent article about insect-eating and ancient dental calculus. In brief, Neanderthals have as much insect DNA in their dental calculus as western chimpanzees, while ancient European modern people have a lot …
The face-stabbing community was old, but the leopards-eating-faces community still older
Just reading this article and realizing it's ten years and nothing has changed.
www.nature.com/articles/537...
The funniest thing to me is that nobody knows when hominins lost the baculum, and I've spent a lot of time carefully examining odd bone fragments thinking that I had a better chance of finding one from Rising Star than anyone's ever had an…
It's a tough question: How many groups of Denisovans were there, and which were ancestors of living people? Recent studies had me thinking we might be approaching an answer, but after looking at the details I'm not so sure.
www.johnhawks…
It is a very challenging position that @neilshubin.bsky.social walks into as leader of @nasonline.org with partisan division over many areas of scientific work. Illuminating interview with @carlzimmer.com as he takes office.
www.nytimes.…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@johnhawks.net
The handle is the domain johnhawks.net. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real johnhawks.net account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Aug 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 40 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
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