Well hello there. You're smaller and cuter than I imagined you would be!

UK universities: "You must ONLY use Key travel, all other options are forbidden." Key Travel: Booking dot com:

I've still not found a soild, data-driven use case for gaussian splats, but there's no denying the fidelity of the visualization/reconstruction is vastly superior to photogrammetry. Left: RealityScan, Right: Lichtfeld Studio, both using same video input, with camera alignment done in RealityScan

Introducing authFace — Windows Hello-style face unlock for Linux (that actually works on immutable distros)

authFace — Windows Hello-style face unlock for Linux (that actually works on immutable distros)

I've been using Windows Hello face unlock on my desktop for years, and it's one of those things you don't realise how much you rely on until it's gone. You sit down at the machine, look at the camera, and you're in. No faffing about with passwords, no keyboard mashing while half-asleep. It just works. On Linux? Not so much.

peterfalkingham.com

It's lovely that my office is directly underneath some media studies nonsense where people like to play the drums and make music occasionally. Really adds to the academic feel of being at a university.

Another great @sebiology.bsky.social conference! I had the opportunity to present my poster on my recent ROM sensitivity analysis paper and give a talk at the @europexn.bsky.social workshop on rotoscoping in Blender. Looking forward to next year!

@arielcamp.bsky.social explaining what #XROMM is at the @europexn.bsky.social workshop #SEBconference

We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

Another awesome day of biomechanics at #sebconference @sebiology.bsky.social

David Labonte elegantly showing how math and physics tools can empower biomechanics to tackle big questions about animal diversity. #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Today I am mostly hassled and grumpy.

RealityScan 2.2 finally brings AMD GPU support (to Windows) Epic have just released RealityScan 2.2, and the headline feature is one that's been on people's wishlists for a long time: full AMD GPU support on Windows. For years, photogrammetry has been effectively CUDA-only. Most serious…

RealityScan 2.2 finally brings AMD GPU support (to Windows)

Epic have just released RealityScan 2.2, and the headline feature is one that's been on people's wishlists for a long time: full AMD GPU support on Windows. For years, photogrammetry has been effectively CUDA-only. Most serious reconstruction software -- Metashape, Colmap with GPU acceleration, the lot -- all lean heavily on NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem. That means if you want to do photogrammetry at any scale, you're locked into buying NVIDIA hardware.

peterfalkingham.com

The best thing about academia is the amazing people you get to work with. #DinosaurHighway2026

Running Hermes Across Multiple Computers, keeping memory and soul synced with kDrive I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that…

Running Hermes Across Multiple Computers, keeping memory and soul synced with kDrive

I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that recently. What I haven't mentioned is that I've got it running on four machines simultaneously, all talking to the same model, all sharing the same memory and personality.

peterfalkingham.com

There's now an option in Wordpress to make a 3 minute podcast based on your posts. Oh dear. Well, I tried it just to see what it's like. Here's a _very_ American sounding podcast summarising the last 3-4 posts I did on setting up my local AI. I don't see myself doing this regularly...

Podcast Episode: Local AI Tools And Workflows (summarising recent posts

Oh dear. Found this option in wordpress experimental features. Gave it a try. Is this useful to anyone? It weirds me out a bit. Anyway, transcript below: Pip: Prof. Peter Falkingham has been doing what academics do best: turning a simple question into a multi-week infrastructure project, then writing about it thoughtfully enough that you're glad he did. Mara: This episode covers his work getting local AI models running for coding and research — from the tooling inside VS Code all the way to a full personal research assistant built around his own data.

peterfalkingham.com

The serif font I've put on my phone is ugly as sin, but it's still better than the 20 minutes I spent yesterday entering a password that couldn't be copy pasted but contained multiple capital i's and lower case L's. "IlIlIlIl"

Great first paper from PhD student @rebeccalowes.bsky.social , running a sensitivity analysis on Range of Motion and what matters. Lots and lots of work in this one, but the gist is, it matters a lot how you select your articular surface: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Digital range of motion analysis is sensitive to subjective steps in joint model construction

A systematic sensitivity analysis of a six degree-of-freedom range of motion (ROM) analysis workflow was conducted to evaluate how variation in the subjective steps of the reference pose assembly aff...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The Local AI Treadmill – everything I’ve built will be obsolete in weeks I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake…

The Local AI Treadmill – everything I’ve built will be obsolete in weeks

I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake this nagging feeling that it's all a colossal waste of time, because everything's moving so fast it's taking all my free time just to keep up, and within weeks or months, something will come out that makes it all obsolete.

peterfalkingham.com

My Linux Journey Is Nearly Complete (But There Are Still A Few Rough Edges) I've been running Linux as my primary desktop for a while now — specifically Bluefin (the immutable Fedora-based distro with dinosaurs) on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an RTX 5090 Mobile and AMD HX 370 processor. The…

My Linux Journey Is Nearly Complete (But There Are Still A Few Rough Edges)

I've been running Linux as my primary desktop for a while now — specifically Bluefin (the immutable Fedora-based distro with dinosaurs) on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an RTX 5090 Mobile and AMD HX 370 processor. The migration from Windows is basically done, but there are still a few edge cases that remind me I'm not quite there yet (

peterfalkingham.com

www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/... We've been CT scanning tracks to understand sub-surface deformation. Led by Tash Prescott! 0:01 / 0:06

Conference: we put on childcare because we want to be inclusive and help parents Funders: we understand parenting constraints and will allow funds to be flexible to take kid to conference. UK unis: LOL GET REKT. POLICY SAYS F U

The absolute stress inducing shit-show that is the cartel of university travel agents.

Building My Personal AI Research Assistant: What I’ve Done So Far I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth…

Building My Personal AI Research Assistant: What I’ve Done So Far

I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth documenting what we've achieved so far, because some of it's genuinely useful and I suspect other academics might find bits of it helpful too.

peterfalkingham.com

Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

Research Associate in Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Research Associate in Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

jobs.virginia.edu

Getting Local AI Working for Me: LM Studio, OpenCode, and Hermes I've been getting local AI setup with an orchestrator and it's bloody exciting, and bloody scary!

Getting Local AI Working for Me: LM Studio, OpenCode, and Hermes

I've been using Copilot in VS Code for a while now, and it's genuinely useful for the kind of small scripts I write regularly – visualising DEM output in Blender, sorting through CT scan data, that sort of thing. With an education account I get access to the top-end models, which is brilliant. But there are times when you don't want your data going to the cloud.

peterfalkingham.com

We're excited to welcome @elliescerri.bsky.social for the next MENDLS lecture - 06.05.26 at the Uni of Liverpool. If you're around, please join us - see poster for details and sign up. @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @phoebebakerrr.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social

Getting Dragonfly setup on Linux (runs better than Windows!) on my new laptop with a 5090, and wanted to push it, so here's a vole scanned at 13 microns resolution (70GB dataset)

Any academic parents coming to the #SEBconference in Florence this July, @sebiology.bsky.social has childcare! www.sebiology.org/resource/epi... @peterfalkingham.com and I have used this fantastic childcare for the last 3 years (child of 6 months-2.5 years), and are happy to share our experience.

Epic Play Quest comes to the SEB’s Annual Conference crèche!

We’re delighted to partner with Nipperbout Event Childcare to offer a fully staffed crèche for families attending the SEB’s Annual Conference in Florence

sebiology.org

[Academic Tech] 2025 Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 5090 (vs 2024’s 4070) I really rather loved my Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 4070. A beautiful and powerful laptop. But I was bumping up against RAM limitations with some CT data; 32GB was proving limiting, as was the 8GB VRAM on the otherwise fine…

[Academic Tech] 2025 Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 5090 (vs 2024’s 4070)

I really rather loved my Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 4070. A beautiful and powerful laptop. But I was bumping up against RAM limitations with some CT data; 32GB was proving limiting, as was the 8GB VRAM on the otherwise fine nvidia 4070 GPU. So I solved that by upgrading the the newer version of the model, released in late 2025.

peterfalkingham.com

A Marie Curie Post-doc absolutely kick-started my career. Like everyone else, I would be happy to host a potential fellow and help develop their application if it's in my wheel house.

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4mo ago

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw