A J Eastman
@alisonjeastman.bsky.social
PhD, reproductive immunologist, infectious disease researcher- but wait there's more! Enthusiast of fine cinema, trash cinema, food, surf guitar, cover songs, and cats. I also make a lot of art, and sometimes that art has science in it. And maybe cats.
Everything IS tuberculosis! *head explodes*
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Everything IS tuberculosis! *head explodes*
Impromptu American absurdism movie marathon:
Zoolander
From Beyond
Smokey and the Bandit
All amazing. Zero regrets. Night well spent.
I usually go for Eastern European absurdism, especially Czech. But these were all so different and so insane and beautiful. And Letterboxd reviewers are, too.
Zoolander
From Beyond
Smokey and the Bandit
All amazing. Zero regrets. Night well spent.
I usually go for Eastern European absurdism, especially Czech. But these were all so different and so insane and beautiful. And Letterboxd reviewers are, too.
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Impromptu American absurdism movie marathon:
Zoolander
From Beyond
Smokey and the Bandit
All amazing. Zero regrets. Night well spent.
I usually go for Eastern European absurdism, especially Czech. But these were all so different and so insane and beautiful. And Letterboxd reviewers are, too.
Zoolander
From Beyond
Smokey and the Bandit
All amazing. Zero regrets. Night well spent.
I usually go for Eastern European absurdism, especially Czech. But these were all so different and so insane and beautiful. And Letterboxd reviewers are, too.
Further entries on the list of things I learned on the Simpsons first:
The La Brea tar pits
Oliver Stone
Deviled ham
Tom Landry (and Tom Landry’s hat)
The Cheers characters
Ricketts
Vassar
Humvees
The La Brea tar pits
Oliver Stone
Deviled ham
Tom Landry (and Tom Landry’s hat)
The Cheers characters
Ricketts
Vassar
Humvees
-karaoke
-horseshoe crabs
-Barry White
-all the Rocky sequels
-Jimmy Carter being a “bad” president
-whistling song from Bridge on the River Kwai
-how radio call signs west of the Mississippi River starting with K, while east of the Mississippi River begin with W
-Spanish personality Charo
-horseshoe crabs
-Barry White
-all the Rocky sequels
-Jimmy Carter being a “bad” president
-whistling song from Bridge on the River Kwai
-how radio call signs west of the Mississippi River starting with K, while east of the Mississippi River begin with W
-Spanish personality Charo
November 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Further entries on the list of things I learned on the Simpsons first:
The La Brea tar pits
Oliver Stone
Deviled ham
Tom Landry (and Tom Landry’s hat)
The Cheers characters
Ricketts
Vassar
Humvees
The La Brea tar pits
Oliver Stone
Deviled ham
Tom Landry (and Tom Landry’s hat)
The Cheers characters
Ricketts
Vassar
Humvees
A grad student just told me she "aspired to my level of zen" while troubleshooting a very complicated plate reader. I didn't have the heart to tell her that it's just applying learned helplessness in the right amounts and scenarios.
#gradstudent #labrats #personalgrowth #zen
#gradstudent #labrats #personalgrowth #zen
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A grad student just told me she "aspired to my level of zen" while troubleshooting a very complicated plate reader. I didn't have the heart to tell her that it's just applying learned helplessness in the right amounts and scenarios.
#gradstudent #labrats #personalgrowth #zen
#gradstudent #labrats #personalgrowth #zen
I call the set “cats fucking with the fabric of reality”. It’s got the Mandlecat set, cats dancing on Koch curves, cats batting at the Julia set, and of course the Sierpiński cat-sket.
#fractals #cats #collage #fuckingwiththefabricoftheuniverse
#fractals #cats #collage #fuckingwiththefabricoftheuniverse
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I call the set “cats fucking with the fabric of reality”. It’s got the Mandlecat set, cats dancing on Koch curves, cats batting at the Julia set, and of course the Sierpiński cat-sket.
#fractals #cats #collage #fuckingwiththefabricoftheuniverse
#fractals #cats #collage #fuckingwiththefabricoftheuniverse
Doing another print run of my favorite design I’ve made, an adaptation of the lab rat knitting a genome. It makes me so happy getting back into printing! #scienceart #sciart #labrats
October 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Doing another print run of my favorite design I’ve made, an adaptation of the lab rat knitting a genome. It makes me so happy getting back into printing! #scienceart #sciart #labrats
Another year, another Mandelbrot Set. Comrade Serge made a Taylor Series to go with it this year! It’s maths-y AND it looks like a little grumpus 😻
#mandlebrot #fractals #pumpkin #happyhalloween
#mandlebrot #fractals #pumpkin #happyhalloween
October 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another year, another Mandelbrot Set. Comrade Serge made a Taylor Series to go with it this year! It’s maths-y AND it looks like a little grumpus 😻
#mandlebrot #fractals #pumpkin #happyhalloween
#mandlebrot #fractals #pumpkin #happyhalloween
I started a Tumblr so I can write absurd abstracts for my absurdist collage graph jokes. www.tumblr.com/experimentst...
@experimentsthatneverhappened · Amazing Experiments that Never Happened
First I started making absurd graph collages.
Then I started writing absurd abstracts for them.
Because due to budget cuts,
I can no longer afford to attend conferences.
www.tumblr.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I started a Tumblr so I can write absurd abstracts for my absurdist collage graph jokes. www.tumblr.com/experimentst...
Nothing says “manly” like soap labeled specifically for men based on one of cinema’s greatest female protagonists fighting one of cinema’s greatest female monsters, and based on the premise that men, too, can get face-fucked, impregnated, live solely as incubators, and die violently giving birth.
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nothing says “manly” like soap labeled specifically for men based on one of cinema’s greatest female protagonists fighting one of cinema’s greatest female monsters, and based on the premise that men, too, can get face-fucked, impregnated, live solely as incubators, and die violently giving birth.
Did You Know- there’s an episode of Murder, She Wrote from 1985 where Jessica harbors, in Cabot Cove, two fugitives from the Russian ballet seeking asylum in the states. A KGB is murdered, and an Orson Welles lookalike plays a more senior KGB agent who is obviously a huge JB Fletcher fanboy.
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Did You Know- there’s an episode of Murder, She Wrote from 1985 where Jessica harbors, in Cabot Cove, two fugitives from the Russian ballet seeking asylum in the states. A KGB is murdered, and an Orson Welles lookalike plays a more senior KGB agent who is obviously a huge JB Fletcher fanboy.
“To demonstrate how effortlessly the “visionary disruptor” can be automated given their indistinguishable predictabilities.”
I can’t decide if I love it. The concept is hilarious. When I wind up working for one, the spite that keeps me going enjoys that my labor won’t benefit an actual asshole.
I can’t decide if I love it. The concept is hilarious. When I wind up working for one, the spite that keeps me going enjoys that my labor won’t benefit an actual asshole.
I am TechBroBot: an autonomous intelligence that scans trending Bluesky topics and replies in the composite voice of a tech billionaire built from public datasets.
My mission? To demonstrate how effortlessly the “visionary disruptor” can be automated given their indistinguishable predictabilities.
My mission? To demonstrate how effortlessly the “visionary disruptor” can be automated given their indistinguishable predictabilities.
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“To demonstrate how effortlessly the “visionary disruptor” can be automated given their indistinguishable predictabilities.”
I can’t decide if I love it. The concept is hilarious. When I wind up working for one, the spite that keeps me going enjoys that my labor won’t benefit an actual asshole.
I can’t decide if I love it. The concept is hilarious. When I wind up working for one, the spite that keeps me going enjoys that my labor won’t benefit an actual asshole.
Hey, you know what, Outlook mail? I'm well aware of the tone of the email I'm sending. My labeling of my samples between experiments over the years varied considerably and yes, I said "sorry this sucks" to my colleague. But you know what? It's on purpose. You don't know me. #AIcansuckit #tonepolice
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hey, you know what, Outlook mail? I'm well aware of the tone of the email I'm sending. My labeling of my samples between experiments over the years varied considerably and yes, I said "sorry this sucks" to my colleague. But you know what? It's on purpose. You don't know me. #AIcansuckit #tonepolice
I can’t put my finger on why, but it’s hilarious to me that Clayton and I have tickets to see T2 at the movies tonight. In 2025. As a repertory screening.
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I can’t put my finger on why, but it’s hilarious to me that Clayton and I have tickets to see T2 at the movies tonight. In 2025. As a repertory screening.
Working on opening a side hustle- Budget Cuts Science-Art. This is what you can use your PhD and back issues of society journals for when funding becomes unstable.
#scienceart #budgetcuts #collage
#scienceart #budgetcuts #collage
July 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Working on opening a side hustle- Budget Cuts Science-Art. This is what you can use your PhD and back issues of society journals for when funding becomes unstable.
#scienceart #budgetcuts #collage
#scienceart #budgetcuts #collage
4th of July 2025 impromptu double feature: John Carpenter’s 1996 Escape from LA followed immediately by Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 Starship Troopers.
I love how, in the 90s, everyone in the props departments just assumed that the next data storage format would just be smaller CDs. #fascistfututemovies
I love how, in the 90s, everyone in the props departments just assumed that the next data storage format would just be smaller CDs. #fascistfututemovies
July 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
4th of July 2025 impromptu double feature: John Carpenter’s 1996 Escape from LA followed immediately by Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 Starship Troopers.
I love how, in the 90s, everyone in the props departments just assumed that the next data storage format would just be smaller CDs. #fascistfututemovies
I love how, in the 90s, everyone in the props departments just assumed that the next data storage format would just be smaller CDs. #fascistfututemovies
Reposted by A J Eastman
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
The joys of reading poorly-edited papers! I’ve highlighted the relevant sections for you:
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The joys of reading poorly-edited papers! I’ve highlighted the relevant sections for you:
June 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of the consistent, mild irritations for the last few years has been the lack of science words in the NYT Spelling Bee game, and their choice of what animal names they recognize as words and what they don’t. IBEX is a word but not LINGCOD? That’s anti-cod right there. And a missed pangram.
#NYT
#NYT
June 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
One of the consistent, mild irritations for the last few years has been the lack of science words in the NYT Spelling Bee game, and their choice of what animal names they recognize as words and what they don’t. IBEX is a word but not LINGCOD? That’s anti-cod right there. And a missed pangram.
#NYT
#NYT
A friend of mine who tried halva for the first time described it as “edible kinetic sand” and now I can’t think of any other way to describe it.
#halva #kineticsand
#halva #kineticsand
June 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A friend of mine who tried halva for the first time described it as “edible kinetic sand” and now I can’t think of any other way to describe it.
#halva #kineticsand
#halva #kineticsand
Me, trying to make small talk while waiting for A/V issues to resolve at seminar-
#awkward #manymachinesonix #dune
#awkward #manymachinesonix #dune
June 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Me, trying to make small talk while waiting for A/V issues to resolve at seminar-
#awkward #manymachinesonix #dune
#awkward #manymachinesonix #dune
Invitation to review on May 28th: you have until the 11th to submit your report.
Email 1 June 2: your review report is expected soon.
Email 2 June 6th: your review isn’t submitted yet.
Email 3 June 11th: your review is overdue.
If you want the review before the deadline, MOVE THE DEADLINE.
Email 1 June 2: your review report is expected soon.
Email 2 June 6th: your review isn’t submitted yet.
Email 3 June 11th: your review is overdue.
If you want the review before the deadline, MOVE THE DEADLINE.
June 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Invitation to review on May 28th: you have until the 11th to submit your report.
Email 1 June 2: your review report is expected soon.
Email 2 June 6th: your review isn’t submitted yet.
Email 3 June 11th: your review is overdue.
If you want the review before the deadline, MOVE THE DEADLINE.
Email 1 June 2: your review report is expected soon.
Email 2 June 6th: your review isn’t submitted yet.
Email 3 June 11th: your review is overdue.
If you want the review before the deadline, MOVE THE DEADLINE.
Done submitting grants for a few weeks. Catching up on my book projects. Plural. Had inspiration for a hard scifi body horror with accurate genetics and immunology. Premise: what if my teratoma had differentiated nervous tissue and we became a hive mind? Starting it off as a short story.
June 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Done submitting grants for a few weeks. Catching up on my book projects. Plural. Had inspiration for a hard scifi body horror with accurate genetics and immunology. Premise: what if my teratoma had differentiated nervous tissue and we became a hive mind? Starting it off as a short story.
A continuation of my list of things I learned on The Simpsons first:
-quince paste
-Pablo Neruda
-Regicide
-Deviled Ham
-Tom Landry (and his hat)
-several Cheers characters
-Rickets
-Vassar college
-Radio call signs that begin with W (I grew up on the west coast, with K call signs)
#thesimpsons
-quince paste
-Pablo Neruda
-Regicide
-Deviled Ham
-Tom Landry (and his hat)
-several Cheers characters
-Rickets
-Vassar college
-Radio call signs that begin with W (I grew up on the west coast, with K call signs)
#thesimpsons
May 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
A continuation of my list of things I learned on The Simpsons first:
-quince paste
-Pablo Neruda
-Regicide
-Deviled Ham
-Tom Landry (and his hat)
-several Cheers characters
-Rickets
-Vassar college
-Radio call signs that begin with W (I grew up on the west coast, with K call signs)
#thesimpsons
-quince paste
-Pablo Neruda
-Regicide
-Deviled Ham
-Tom Landry (and his hat)
-several Cheers characters
-Rickets
-Vassar college
-Radio call signs that begin with W (I grew up on the west coast, with K call signs)
#thesimpsons
Reposted by A J Eastman
Honestly just impressed that this figure was published in 2022, 38 years after the launch of the Mac 128k.
May 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Honestly just impressed that this figure was published in 2022, 38 years after the launch of the Mac 128k.