James R.B. Eastwood

jrbe@scholar.social

Great ape.PhD in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chemistry</a>, developing computational tools for molecular science. Always looking for opportunities to learn new computational chemistry methods, develop new open source molecular software, and expand the boundaries of who can participate in computational science and what they can accomplish. He/himParent to two precocious children, and aspiring Trekkie.

Posts

Post #4319091
I didn&#39;t set out to post a thirst trap, but my selfie of my bright summer wardrobe from early June now has 40 boosts and 113 favorites. I&#39;m hot on Mastodon!
Post #4319090
The moment when your doctor&#39;s demeanor shifts from, &quot;everything&#39;s fine&quot; to &quot;I&#39;m going to save this patient&#39;s life RIGHT NOW. &quot;
Post #4319089
New rule: anyone talking about &quot;peptides,&quot; whether they be journalist, influencer, or the Health Secretary, has to at minimum read out the peptide sequences they are discussing, and preferably also cite the target. Otherwise I&#39;m going to assume they&#39;re talking poly-glutamine.
Post #4319088
What if the LLMs overuse em-dashes because colons have syntactic meaning in YAML format?
Post #4319087
My 5yo asked for a globe of Mars, asked *why* Earth is the only planet with a breathable atmosphere, and lamented that Earth isn&#39;t as big as Neptune because he wants to have plenty of room to go for long walks and ramble around. Maybe we&#39;re on to the space phase now? #precocious #parenting
Post #4319086
Shakespeare in the park! #nyc
Post #4319085
5yo was taking bites of dried peppers that he found on the counter. We have repeatedly warned him how spicy they are. Suddenly he&#39;s crying and screaming, and 3yo is laughing at him. #parenting
Post #4319084
Looking forward to running a small book club at work! @grimalkina
Post #4319083
Pink Pomelo Club
Post #4137883
Cishet men, you can wear colors too. It's ok, really. No one even has to know you're straight. #SummerofColour
Post #3036650
What did Google find in my inbox that led them to serve me ads for a Gulfstream?
Post #3036649
BRB, got go assess some asses. #asstodon
Post #3036648
Surprisingly sophisticated class analysis, for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/magazine/the-politics-of-the-downwardly-mobile-professional-class.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.eeGO._0ULWoo_jq9Z&amp;smid=url-share
Post #3036647
I didn&#39;t expect Ronnie Chieng to be the prophet of the Butlerian Jihad. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-graduation-ronny-chieng-ai-tirade
Post #3036646
2yo saw 5yo juicing lemons and asked, &quot;can I lemonate?&quot; #precocious #parenting
Post #3036645
Every time my team has talked about AI usage, I&#39;ve exhorted them to keep their workflows robust against a huge increase of the cost of the LLMs. If we can&#39;t afford the new, &quot;AI-powered&quot; workflow, we need ro be able to fall back seamlessly to the old workflow. I&#39;m going to check in about Copilot usage at our sprint meeting later today, and I sure hope they took my advice.
Post #2847015
It&#39;s nearly impossible to get in 8k steps per day while caring for young children full time.
Post #2846567
Who called it an &quot;AI Therapist&quot; and not &quot;Freudian Slop?&quot; h/t @AgnesBC
Post #2846566
All the juice joints in Harlem
Post #2846565
While I was in a late work meeting and my wife was nursing the baby, the 5yo washed his hands in the bathroom, plugged the sink, left the water running, and closed the bathroom door. After my meeting, I was reading to the older boys for bedtime when the super knocked at the door to tell us the apartment below us was flooding. How&#39;s your evening going? #parenting
Post #2846564
Can I pay my rent in story points?
Post #2846563
So if I understand correctly, I&#39;ve been making smashburgers this whole time, they just didn&#39;t have such a trendy name a decade ago. I learned them as &quot;diner-style&quot; burgers, as opposed to &quot;pub-style,&quot; which were in fashion in those days.
Post #2846562
At what point does &quot;fail fast&quot; just become &quot;fail?&quot;
Post #2846561
I helped my two older boys (5 and almost 3) extract DNA from strawberries, which the 5yo had been asking about for weeks. 2yo has a very old-school biochemistry approach: he wants to taste every step. When we had our product, they wanted to know &quot;what can we do with it next?&quot; I had to dash their ambitions by explaining that we don&#39;t have a sequencer in our apartment. #precocious #parenting
Post #2846560
I used cold ethanol to precipitate DNA that my kids extracted from strawberries, and now I want a daiquiri.
Post #2466349
Judicial review is incompatible with democracy.
Post #2466348
5yo observed that my pizza crust looked like a guy, so we got way too excited by placing the toppings accordingly. I give you, &quot;pizza guy!&quot; #parenting
Post #2466347
Mom overheard the 5yo say something about &quot;Nike,&quot; so she asked him what he was talking about (her brother works for the shoe company). He replied &quot;The Goddess Nike, from the famous sculpture.&quot; She asked him how he knew about that, and he said &quot;it&#39;s in the book 13 Famous Sculptures That Every Kid Should Know, and if every kid should know about it then grown-ups should know too.&quot; #precocious #parenting
Post #2466346
Combat wombat Is this anything?
Post #2242967
Why do vloggers often record their video with a lapel mic held between their fingers?