Jarvist Moore Frost
To physicists: a chemist. To chemists: a physicist. To mathematicians: an empty set.
RSURF & Lecturer, Imperial College London.
Computational chemist / physicist.
Photovoltaics, batteries, antibacterial peptides; lasers, cryostats, (ML)(Q)MC/MD/TB/DFT.
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostIt was always clear this was an injustice - but now we know by how much. Absolutely shameful, and as bad as the Nobel neglect of Lise Meitner, if not worse.
- Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostSpoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name. youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?...
- OK OK, Prism is terrible and likely to destroy peer-review and preprint servers, BUT it is also pretty funny and means I can enjoy the fan-fiction academia-adjacent work I'd never have time to write myself. (Go read Strugatsky! It's hilarious.)
- I even misremember the book title (should be "Monday begins on Saturday") and it still infers what I was actually talking about.
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostarXiv is not going to survive the wave of slop heading its way
- OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostAnd now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore Frost2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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- Gemini 3 Flash is a super impressive research assistant. My Cursor.com AGENTS.md starts with an 'echo' to confirm that this file was read and processed. For whimsy this is: "GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN." Gemini 3 Flash is the first model which has started responding with contextual jokes...
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- IsoNet2 determines cellular structures at submolecular resolution without averaging biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostThe number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.
- I finally ~finished~ my blog post on running a maths circle for primary school age kids. (Yes, I just copy + pasted it into Linkedin, I looked at getting my Hugo blog running but its so obsolete getting it to compile looked a massive hassle! Raw HTML next time.) www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-ye...
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostArtificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’ @aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- And the moral for practicing scientists is: Engage with the arts! Read novels! Go to plays! Indulge your interests outside the lab!
- Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostIt’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…
- PK's (Keerati Keeratikarn) second PhD project was on fitting electron transfer integrals between organic electronic molecules with the Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE). Codes: github.com/Frost-group/... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.06551
- Our expectation was that ACE is a natural representation for transfer integrals, as it looks (and feels!) like a many-body extension of the Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) which underlies the quantum chemistry calculations.
- We've only applied it to a few basic molecular systems so far (ethene, thiophene, napthalene) but it seems to be massively more data efficient than just slapping a neural network on the problem.
- And as ACE is a linear model, it's super fast to run, and 'training' the model is well understood and reliable linear algebra. Many thanks to Christoph Ortner for explaining the mathematics, and helping to get it to actually, you know, work...
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostThis a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
- I was quite pleased with this: generates a set of randomised times-table questions of given factors (f), but stochastically includes the commutative pair (i.e. c × f = f × c) and the 'division fact' (c × f = a, then ask a ÷ f) in the next few questions. Certainly productive procrastination!
- Code or it didn't happen, etc. github.com/jarvist/Time...
- Now upgraded with a bit of metaprogramming so you can also do addition practice (for younger children), and with a bit of string manipulation can produce 'fill in the blank' questions. Retrospectively, I should probably have written this in Javascript and put online... github.com/jarvist/Time...
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- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostCan’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!
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- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostA French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
- Reposted by Jarvist Moore FrostGovernment has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...
- I love the fact that "CRANKYMEGAFISHSTINGRAY" is a genuine amino acid sequence. ((( I suppose if I find a dictionary somewhere in my unix filesystem 'grep -v' with the 6 letters NOT amino acids would find all the genuine amino-acid words... )) github.com/Frost-group/...
- Those gram-negative bacteria coming to ruin our day... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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- I'm recruiting PhD students (Imperial Chemistry), for a >Jan 2026 start. 1) Designing antimicrobial peptides with machine learning and computational chemistry approaches 2) Machine learning surrogate quantum mechanical models (particularly Tight-binding and PPP) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Gnuplot with image terminal support sort of works. But you get lots of weird unhappiness with detecting / outputting. I've only just discovered the ability to pipe within `set output "|kitten icat --stdin" `, usually when I do this I output to a png and then display. But interactive would be nicer!
- Maybe the boring old way to do it via a script is more sensible actually; then you have a script which generates the figure, can check into version control etc. github.com/Frost-group/...
- Meet friends... wiggle proteins on a computer... analyse trajectories... (Hopefully become a Bayesian?) The perfect start to a bio-MD focused PhD!
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[Not loaded yet] - Really nice long-form post on how the ML architecture AND the hardware (accelerators, GPUs and TPUs) evolved together. I think it's always very important in science to be reflective on where how the technology (i.e. hardware) and science (i.e. software) develop in tandem, often as a tick-tock.
