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.

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

Gonna focus on terraforming Mars rather than not venusifying Earth. futurism.com/the-byte/nas...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

📚 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

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...

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. 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.

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...

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.

Isn't this fitting.... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

I could not be prouder to be Canadian. I love our country so much. And I love that we may be kind but try to screw us over, and you’ll learn what elbows up really means. (Credit to @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social for picture)

And now for the 'story behind the paper'! communities.springernature.com/posts/unlock...

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

Seeing and hearing that NSF panels & reviews shut down. Again, for the love of science, this is not the time for scientists to be quiet..speak up if you can and push Uni administrators to do so as well.

@nature.com says "Let me chatGPT Archaeology for you"... www.nature.com/research-int... Compare the quality of that to Wikipedia, which we once told students to avoid because it was terrible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeo... This use of AI definitely seems like it's worth burning the planet for 🤪

I love a paper with killer figures, this arrived just in time to update my slides for today's teaching on the evolution of the human brain 😃 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Ooo.... This PhD looks really interesting. One of the great joys of being an academic moving into the latter part of their career is seeing new research coming out that is more theoretically and methodologically nuanced/advanced than what's come before. 😀👍 www.proquest.com/docview/3154...

Thrilled to be part of this research. cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch...

We've always known people don't report dietary intake accurately in surveys. Now we can correct for that (if you've got the research budget for doubly labelled water and isotopic analyses). Neat! 😀 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is a really cool paper and an excellent demonstration that early life stress has a different magnitude if influence of different limb bones, and most significantly the distal segment of the lower limb. Great stuff! 👍

"Children as agents of cultural adaptation" - very interesting. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sad to see these developments in the Journal of Human Evolution. Time to move away from for-profit scientific publishing to community owned open access journals like PaleoAnthropology paleoanthropology.org

I recently stepped down as an AE at a Springer:Nature journal for reasons similar to o the JHE board (where I also once served). Time to stop allowing ourselves to be exploited for corporate profit. We can do everything without them.

Interesting experimental study demonstrates that the chimpanzees at Bossou select stone tools based on material properties of the raw material, similar to Oldowan stone tools www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Allow me to share some of my research in #BioAnth 🏺🧪 Cancellous bone can inform about the use and adaptation of #bones during life. Here 👇 me and my colleagues developed some tools to isolate the whole cancellous region and study its complexity! (1/2) #science #3D #imaging doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

Very interesting paper to add to the evidence for early occupation of high altitude environments in the Andes 😀 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.

It's been a hard week for various reasons but today got news that a really, really exciting archaeology archives project collaboration with Emma Pomeroy and @toriherridge.bsky.social (which we've have wanted to do for years), has been funded! More news as soon as we can share... 🏺

Great study of the ontogeny of cortical bone geometry and porosity in femoral diaphyses of Chimpanzees, focussing on the Taï Forest Chimps. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

(1/2)Viva scheduled for the 10th of January, time to recap everything I have accomplished during my PhD: Bi(bli)oArch-Italia doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... STARC Osteoarch doi.org/10.1002/oa.3... Dental diseases/wear in Menainon doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... #Ph(almost)Done

As we just joined, here is a quick catch-up about our most recent #research! Last week @anahit19.bsky.social had her paper on the #popgen of #Armenia finally published (it took a while...)! 34 new #genomes and lots of new info on the genetic #history of the region! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...