Peter Falkingham
@peterfalkingham.com
Professor of Palaeobiology, specialising in locomotion in the fossil record, #dinosaur footprints, #photogrammetry and #simulation. Liverpool/Wales UK
https://peterfalkingham.com
https://peterfalkingham.com
I don't know exactly what it is, but this email we just got makes me cringe:
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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…
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…
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 not. With an education account, you get access to all kinds of top-end models. But what many people don't realize is that you can also use local models in VS Code.
peterfalkingham.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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…
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!
Hey look it's @peterfalkingham.com on Have I got News For You!!
October 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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...
www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/17/h...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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...
www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/17/h...
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Had a great day at MorphUpNorth yesterday and very pleased to have been awarded best talk!
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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!
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
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
Oxfordshire Dinosaur tracks - Falkingham Lab from Liverpool John Moores University
YouTube video by Peter Falkingham
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
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
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Really cool website the BBC have put together on the dinosaur track excavations in Oxfordshire this year
Reposted by Peter Falkingham
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...
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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...
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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.
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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!
My Two Year Old. Again.: NooooOOOoooooOoooOooooooOoooOoooooOoOOOOooo!
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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!
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…
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…
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 different open-source photogrammetry software, I've found they haven't really kept up with Metashape or RealityScan, and I'm just not using them much any more.
peterfalkingham.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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…
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...
youtube.com/watch?v=E0tP...
8 week old Kitten playing in slow motion and 4k
YouTube video by Peter Falkingham
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August 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
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…
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…
[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 remote-ing into a remote workstation was difficult to make out everything on the small 6-7" unfolded screen). So upon my return, I started looking into AR glasses, for which I'd seen a few reviews on YouTube, in passing.
peterfalkingham.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
[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…
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…
Reposted by Peter Falkingham
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
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
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
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
Here come the science sketchnotes from @sebiology.bsky.social Meeting in Antwerp this July! These are shared with the presenter's permission (but all mistakes, especially spelling, are mine).
First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers
First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers
July 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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.
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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
Reconstructing dinosaur locomotion. Read the #BiologyLetters review: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology #biomechanics
July 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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.
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Probably gonna need to downsample that 1.5 /billion/ triangle mesh.
How do they come up with such cringey titles for mandatory online training...
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
Speed from fossil trackways: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates | Biology Letters
Fossil trackways serve as a valuable tool in understanding the behaviour and locomotion
of extinct animals. Calculating speeds from trackways has become a standard approach,
particularly for dinosaurs...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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…
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…
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 To install it, you need to fire up Epic Games Launcher, then I had to wait a while until the RealityScan tab appeared at the top in place of the old RealityCapture tab:
peterfalkingham.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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…
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)
June 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Sparrows feeding in slow motion (available in 4k on my youtubes: youtu.be/YTVgpIOIxrE)