Falkingjam wins SVP #2025SVP @peterfalkingham.com

We’re celebrating after winning two Times Higher Education Awards! 🎉 🏆 Business School of the Year: Liverpool Business School 🏆 Widening participation/ Outreach initiative of the Year: Roma Education Aspiration Project #THEAwards ➡️ www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

I don't know exactly what it is, but this email we just got makes me cringe:

Using local AI/LLM in VS Code without third party software I've found VC Code copilot to be invaluable in writing small scripts and the like for, say, visualizing my DEM output in Blender. Just a super way of speeding up tool-building in scenarios where you can immediately tell if it's worked or…

Well that's pretty cool and earns me some bragging rights at home!

Article out about our #dinosaur footprint work and high performance computing #HPC on @ljmuofficial.bsky.social 's 'prospero' cluster. www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/17/h...

Repostinh with working link: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/... Sounds like a super job

Had a great day at MorphUpNorth yesterday and very pleased to have been awarded best talk!

Congrats to @rebeccalowes.bsky.social on deservedly winning best talk at morphupnorth and a new office mug!

Oxford had a talented group make a video about the #dinosaur tracks in Oxfordshire this summer. Birmingham also had a talented group make a video. I made the video for our group. It is less professional. And has wildly inappropriate music: youtu.be/6ULOHr7dkF0

Really cool website the BBC have put together on the dinosaur track excavations in Oxfordshire this year

Our speaker from earlier this year, @peterfalkingham.com, is part of a team that found one of the longest #dinosaur track ways in the world www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The release of the BBC story on this year’s dinosaur track excavation at Dewars Farm means I can finally post these team photos. Thanks so much to quarry manager Mark Stanway & all his team at Smiths Bletchington for being utterly amazing & supporting our work at the site.

This morning I am mostly being hoisted by a petard. My own petard.

Me: I'm not sure I really understand the problem. Could you articulate it in a different way with different words? My Two Year Old. Again.: NooooOOOoooooOoooOooooooOoooOoooooOoOOOOooo!

Major update to Open Source photogrammetry software Meshroom Meshroom has for some time been one of my top choices for open-source or free photogrammetry software, offering a really deep amount of customization and tinkering. However, while this blog made a big splash early on reviewing all the…

I say the videos on my YouTube animals in motion playlist are for research and reference, but sometimes they're for fun too. Here's an 8 week old kitten playing, at full speed and slow motion youtube.com/watch?v=E0tP...

[Academic Tech] XREAL Air Pro 2 – Immersive Augmented Reality Glasses At the recent SEB conference, I traveled sans laptop, working on the assumption I could do everything urgent on my OnePlus Open. I could... but what I found was that some tasks just needed a larger screen (specifically…

Supercomputer pushes frontiers of LJMU research From modelling the evolution of the cosmos to simulating how dinosaurs would have walked, researchers at LJMU are pushing the boundaries of science, tech & medicine. ➡️https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2025/8/4/prospero-5-anniversary

Always a joy to see @arielcamp.bsky.social 's sketch notes from conferences

The new focus stack + pixel shift on the new Nikon Z8 firmware is awesome! Those numbers are mm. 25 focus positions, with 32 pixel shift images at each position, totaling 64GB of RAW images before merge and stack. Nikkor MC 105mm.

Watch Peter L. Falkingham talk about his #BiologyLetters review of the methods used to study dinosaur locomotion, covering extant taxa, bones, muscles, and footprints: cassyni.com/events/RAu9V... #palaeontology

Probably gonna need to downsample that 1.5 /billion/ triangle mesh.

How do they come up with such cringey titles for mandatory online training...

New paper led by Tash Prescott - we applied equations for speed, etc that are commonly used on #dinosaur tracks to tracks made by living birds we could watch and time. TLDR: equations aren't even nearly close. Animals moving freely on compliant substrates very different to steady-state lab data

RealityScan 2.0 Released (formerly RealityCapture) As I’d previously noted, RealityCapture has been re-branded to RealityScan, to align branding across desktop and mobile applications. With the rebrand come some major new changes: AI Masking Smarter Alignment Aeriel LiDAR Support Quality Analysis…

Sparrows feeding in slow motion (available in 4k on my youtubes: youtu.be/YTVgpIOIxrE)

FYI for those doing #XROMM, we've now moved everything over to github: github.com/XROMMPackages

Modern image formats – which is best? Experimenting with .AVIF and .JXL Despite having a terabyte of OneDrive storage (which I've been enjoying for years, though I'm starting to look at Proton as an alternative - that's for another post), it's very nearly full, and a big portion of that is photos:…

Reality Capture being rebranded to Reality Scan 2.0 soon: www.cgchannel.com/2025/06/epic... If they happen to also lose the CUDA exclusivity on this release, it might be the last thing in my workflow tying my to nvidia #photogrammetry

*SERIOUSLY PYTHON???*

I feel these would make good reference for pterosaur palaeoart petapixel.com/2025/05/30/p...

What the heck happened to 3D Slicer in recent years? It used to be the go-to for segmentation, but it seems loads of tools and functions are missing, and all the documentation is based on old UIs and functionality. It's a complete mess.

Lots more videos like this on my Animals in Motion youtube channel - good for biologists and animators: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wanna see a Goldfinch eating dandelion seeds in slow motion? Of course you do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hKn...

Was at the park photographing birds, got this video of ducks being bastards: (CW: Ducks mating) youtu.be/PKfe6MfNJQE

Reconstructing dinosaur locomotion. Read the #BiologyLetters review: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology #biomechanics

New #openaccess paper in JVP on more #machinelearning for classifying #dinosaur footprints www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did some bird photos at the park, here you go: Ducks!

The team and I had a bit of fun with a camera to make a video for the TRACKEVOL project. @rebeccalowes.bsky.social is the only one on bsky I think... We may make more throughout the project, because regardless of the video quality, it was fun to make! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNr...

The Peppa pig "guinea pig"...

A little write up on our team, ~1 year in!

New paper on Pterosaur footprints, led by Rab Smyth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In case anyone finds this useful, I've now added a 'shape fitter' to the #blender extensions library, allowing you to fit spheres, planes, and cylinders to vertex selections: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/shap...

Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

So... is it just me or is the whole manuscript central/Web of Science/ORCID linking a massive pain in the arse and a bit broken mc: "log in with UserID or orcid", click orcid -> takes you to web of science "login with userid or orcid", click orcid -> go to ORCID and log in, bounce back to WoS ...

Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥 We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖

I really like @zen-browser.app but any site that requires username password like this just always fails, and I have to return to a chromium browser. I think this is a firefox issue, but does anyone know a solution?

My northern PhD student to my french post doc "does France even have a type of cuisine?"

This morning's admin: Chase up a finance helpdesk ticket I opened in _November_ that still hasn't been answered. Being asked by our grants people to "please move equipment out of the "equipment" tab and into "non-staff". Equipment doesn't go in the "equipment" tab of our grants portal, apparently.