Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧
@jaytstock.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology, Western University, Canada 🇨🇦
www.pavelab.ca
Human phenotypic plasticity, adaptability, skeletal biomechanics, paleobiology, bioarchaeology, domesticates, dietary transitions, niche construction
www.pavelab.ca
Human phenotypic plasticity, adaptability, skeletal biomechanics, paleobiology, bioarchaeology, domesticates, dietary transitions, niche construction
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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.
Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...
Easier said than done: unexpected hurdles to preparing ∼1,000 cranial CT scans for data collection from an online digital repository
Background As science becomes more open and accessible, researchers are increasingly encouraged—and sometimes required—to share their digital data on public repositories. While this promotes transpare...
peerj.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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.
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Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...
Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers
Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
timesofmalta.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...
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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
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.
news.westernu.ca
July 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
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Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠
Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.
www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...
June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!
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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
Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI
May 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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
Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI
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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...
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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...
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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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...
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...
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."
www.nj.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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...
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...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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
www.findaphd.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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.
They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.”
They’re MAGA.
April 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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.
They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.”
They’re MAGA.
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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.
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.
“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”
Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
www.ft.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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.
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.
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Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.
“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”
Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
www.ft.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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...
communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...
Discovering Europe's Last Hunter-Gatherers
A chance discovery led to evidence of a vanished people - and the epic sea voyages they were never supposed to have undertaken.
communities.springernature.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...
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The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.
This Is What The New York Times Doesn't Want You To See
Race and Science The race controversy engendered by the recent Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” represent...
anthropomics2.blogspot.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.
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📚 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
Big AI companies stealing our work threatens that.
#DoTheWriteThing
#MetaBookThieves
April 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
📚 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
Big AI companies stealing our work threatens that.
#DoTheWriteThing
#MetaBookThieves
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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...
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
March 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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...
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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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.”
“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.”
March 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.”
“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.”
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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?
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the first women elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. On Monday and Tuesday we will release two short documentaries to celebrate these trailblazing women. Watch the trailer and stay tuned to see the full films:
March 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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?
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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.
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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.
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Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited. Barry Bogin & Holly Smith onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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.
March 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A good amount of my work has also been stolen by Meta to fuel their AI development and democracy crushing disinformation micro-targetting platforms.