Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧

OMG this is a good catch. We wrestled with this a long time ago when setting up Slice Geometry. The correct way to set slice spacing (pixel spacing in z) from a DICOM is to use the slice position info (0020,1041 or 0020,0032) and divide by (stack size - 1). It can be out by not much or quite a bit.

Why is there no acetaminophen in the UK? Because the parrots et em all. (Posted with apologies, I have studied Dad jokes on both sides of the Atlantic)

Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

It's Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.

Gonna focus on terraforming Mars rather than not venusifying Earth.

futurism.com/the-byte/nas...

Western expands PhD and postdoc funding - Western News Western is boosting funding for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates from the U.S. and other countries with expanded and new award programs.

To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd

Trump is changing direction on Canada again. The Digital Services Tax is critical to the protection of Canadian news media. Without our media, we are left naked to US digital news disinformation, including Elon Musk's far right X influence. This is a tech oligarch move against Canada's sovereignty.

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

Aging isn’t a disease—it’s a journey. #WesternU researchers say we should focus on health span, not just lifespan, by optimizing how we age through connection, movement and mindset.

Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI

Logo of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins: a handaxe with a glowing lightbulb inside the outline of a hominin brain

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Ex-Canada MP scorches Trump: ‘A sexual predator’ doesn’t understand ‘no means no’ “You deal with the felon in charge from Mar-a-Lago and then we can talk about helping your farmers."

American senators coming cap in hand to Ottawa to say the "healing has begun" is simply not believable.
A convicted felon in Washington is still saying "never say never" about destroying our country.
We know what is at stake.
@meidastouch.bsky.social
www.nj.com/politics/202...

The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU, listed on FindAPhD.com

Here's a fantastic opportunity: A funded PhD in the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx, with a tuition waiver! Even better, the supervisors, Jake Dunn, Emma Pomeroy, and Tom O'Mahoney are all awesome peeps (am I aging myself with that term?)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

JennI Byrne smiling in a MAGA hat

Never forget, this is Jenni Byrne, the Conservative Party of Canada’s top political advisor and Pierre Poilievre’s campaign architect and closest ally.

They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.”

They’re MAGA.

Maple MAGA

Think about this.

Pundits today are saying that Pierre Poilievre’s biggest chance to win tonight is thru the “enthusiasm of the motivated young male voters…”

…who have been the specific target, and the primary success, of the massive cultural disinformation campaign coming from the United States.

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A blog post from me about our discovery pushing back Maltese prehistory to the Mesolithic, and discovering that hunter-gatherers were making epic 100 km sea journeys!
communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...

The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.

Campaign poster from Society of Authors with green background and colourful drawn images of people with placards. Text: "Lisa Nandy #DoTheWriteThing and protect authors livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in Al Training. #MetaBookThieves"

📚 A decade on from my last job in academia, my current career is only possible because 1000s of people had faith in the power of human literature as a means to illuminate, connect, enchant.
Big AI companies stealing our work threatens that.
#DoTheWriteThing
#MetaBookThieves

Diagram highlighting the distribution and directionality of cutmarks on the Dingsishan human skeletons.

How far would you go to save space? Cutmarks on human bones from Neolithic Dingsishan 🇨🇳 suggest the bodies were intentionally disarticulated before burial. It may have been a way to transport the corpses, or to fit them into small burial spaces. 🏺

🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

FWIW this is what Shapiro had to say about the US annexing Canada:

“I feel they will greet us as liberators”

“It’s a silly country”

“I’m not saying Canadians should vote in American elections. God forbid. We can annex it and just call it an outlying territory. Like Puerto Rico, but of the north.”

All of this is utterly hollow and hypocritical when you retain the Fellowship of someone making the world less safe, less inclusive. Someone who performed a Nazi salute on the world stage, someone destabilising western democracies. Where is your line? How far will you enable fascism?

Car advocates are right to worry that once you build cities for people instead of cars, those people will stop voting for the interests of the car industry.

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited Click on the article title to read more.

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited. Barry Bogin & Holly Smith onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A good amount of my work has also been stolen by Meta to fuel their AI development and democracy crushing disinformation micro-targetting platforms.

Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing - Communications Psychology Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern b...

Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...

Congratulations! Very well deserved 😃.

I am excited that I've recently joined the editorial board of Hunter Gatherer Research (tinyurl.com/54wnbu6m), the journal of the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research.

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

Isn't this fitting....

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...