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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 4h

You mean you want more than this?

Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 4h

Because if they did that, it'd be one slide. That would mean a) they can't charge whatever bullshit they charge unis, and b) they couldn't waste your time and make you infuriated, which I'm pretty sure is the main purpose of most of this training.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 5h

Passkeys and password managers are your friends.

Get Proton pass, and generate a new complex password for each service. It also handles passkeys

The modern advice is that even you shouldn't know your passwords.

Not that I don't approve of ragging on asinine GDPR training.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 19h

What's the light doing here? Is it a portal light?

Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 9d

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 10d

Do it. It's no Baldur's Gate II, but it's about as good as we've gotten in decades.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 11d

There's been voice activation for a while in Copilot

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 15d

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!

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · 20d

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…

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.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Aug 21

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

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8 week old Kitten playing in slow motion and 4k

YouTube video by Peter Falkingham

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Aug 14

[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…

[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.

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Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 30

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

arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 24

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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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 18

We're using bmesh for other stuff, but it didn't seem necessary for this. I did toy with ellipsoids but haven't found a use for them yet. Will take a look though, thanks

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 7

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

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 14

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 4

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 2

This person is on fire and about to get strangled. Still better than sitting through a 3 minute non-skippable video about not clicking dodgy links.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 2

I hate everything about this.

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jul 2

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

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 26

Aww too kind!

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 25

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...

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 19

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…

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:

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 19

And a buzzy little bee (youtube: youtu.be/T3rqVRVTu_o)

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 19

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

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