Peter Falkingham / is on Nostr

Palaeontologist specialising in locomotion in the fossil record, particularly footprints, using digitization and simulation. [Full] Professor of Palaeobiology.

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2024-09-09 07:07:48

My Research Fellow / Postdoc position closes one week today. Interested in dinosaur biomechanics, locomotion, or sediment movement? Now's your chance to join a great team!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJE445/research-fellow-palaeontology
#biomechanics #dinosaurs #locomotion #DEM #photogrammetry #simulation
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/106/331/545/378/770/original/3133ea0a6b4b4432.mp4

2024-08-17 13:01:15

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 clearly the only answer is that chatgpt has crawled the Internet, assimilated your slander against it, and decided to troll you :)

2024-08-12 14:49:42

Job ad now live for a postdoc in my lab, either biomechanics/musculoskeletal modelling, OR sediment simulation backgrounds are welcome
#postdoc #paleontology #palaeontology #biomechanics #simulation
https://jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/research-fellow-palaeontology-564793.html

2024-07-19 14:23:31

Just finished a first draft of a review paper with the deadline looming imminently, and have just this moment thought about a way better way to have approached it that would have resulted in a far more interesting paper. Tits.

2024-07-19 07:42:31

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 I mean, it's a shame 99% of that sauropod is foam :)

2024-07-18 10:36:37

In 2009ish, Bates and I scanned the Leicester Cetiosaurus mount. The scan was pretty dreadful. Usable for some stuff, but not really figurable.
After years of the unprocessed data sat on my drive, I found
RealityCapture could import and align old laser scan data. Results are _awesome_, so clean!
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/112/807/049/568/669/085/original/e0ef36422ac9eb26.png
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/112/807/050/890/763/658/original/20982db14fd4e73a.png

2024-05-23 07:43:03

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 hmmm... looks like it didn't save. I'll do it again

2024-05-23 07:33:26

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 You can see on the ollama models page (https://ollama.com/library) what certain models are fine-tuned for. I'm not aware of any that retain specific knowledge on dinosaur taxonomy :)

2024-03-15 12:40:06

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 fair play to Octopus, their email included a personalised PDF with unit costs for my tariff.
However, I'd like to raise the outrage that while unit costs have gone down, the standing charge has gone up significantly.
Which is bullshit. The standing charge is a decent portion of my bill already. Its really hard to reduce electricity usage further without just not using the oven or kettle ever.

2024-03-14 10:06:35

Best #Photogrammetry software Reality Capture going free!
http://peterfalkingham.com/2024/03/14/reality-capture-going-free-for-everyone/