Jake Kean

One Richard Butler sitting on the left with an assortment of preparation tool and parts on a hotel carpet with Susie Maidment sitting on the right.

Pre-assembly for a new preparation lab, in Fes, Morocco on the hotel floor with Susie @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and Richard @richardjbutler.bsky.social

#fossils #dinosaurs #fossilprep #zoicpalaeotech

Amazing successful day here in Morocco setting up a prep lab with our collaborators at USMBA. We even managed to start prepping some new Spicomellus material! Big, big thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social and Kate @Zoic Palaeotech! Impossible without their hard work! @richardjbutler.bsky.social

Unwisely, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and I were allowed to do some prep today. Neither of us lists patience as a virtue bit we didn't break anything... thanks @afossilpreparator.bsky.social for showing us the ropes

I’d probably run a grow from seeds operation after making seed segmentations of a few “roots”, some “matrix” and a sample of the air. Depends which program!

That’s the one, though there is a handy “reverse” tickbox there to correct mirroring ☺️

Yes that's exactly it, sometimes I'll have to resample and overwrite the volume if a process consistently crashes the program. Can swap back after, or rescale elsewhere.

Doesn't affect your segmentations as they're just co-ord based binary label maps that adapt to the voxels they ocupy. Save first!

It's a nightmare without the SlicerMorph extension, at least then you can neatly rescale as you go! It is still hilariously RAM hungry...

jealous!

i hit like before i realised it was you lol. we love ct in palaeo!!

An image of sacabambaspis staring into a glowing computer screen in a dark room. Hw has little arms.

Hehehehe

"it feels weird posting here" your ancestors who pulled themselves out of the sea didn't even have lungs yet