James Le Houx
@thebeamline.bsky.social
Materials Engineer | Energy Storage Scientist | Beamline Tinkerer
Emerging Leader Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/ The Faraday Institution. He/him.
All views are my own.
Emerging Leader Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/ The Faraday Institution. He/him.
All views are my own.
Diving into the new UK AI for Science Strategy.
They’ve made a definitive call, prioritise generating new data over optimising existing archives.
As a materials scientist, I think this is absolutely the right call. Here is why. 🧵1/3
#AIforScience #MaterialsScience
They’ve made a definitive call, prioritise generating new data over optimising existing archives.
As a materials scientist, I think this is absolutely the right call. Here is why. 🧵1/3
#AIforScience #MaterialsScience
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Diving into the new UK AI for Science Strategy.
They’ve made a definitive call, prioritise generating new data over optimising existing archives.
As a materials scientist, I think this is absolutely the right call. Here is why. 🧵1/3
#AIforScience #MaterialsScience
They’ve made a definitive call, prioritise generating new data over optimising existing archives.
As a materials scientist, I think this is absolutely the right call. Here is why. 🧵1/3
#AIforScience #MaterialsScience
Played around with Meta's new SAM 3 on our X-ray data today.
Top: Our manually trained U-Net (accurate but slow). Bottom: SAM 3 out-of-the-box ("white objects").
It misses some outliers, but getting 90% of the way there with zero training is a win for high-throughput workflows.
#Science #AI
Top: Our manually trained U-Net (accurate but slow). Bottom: SAM 3 out-of-the-box ("white objects").
It misses some outliers, but getting 90% of the way there with zero training is a win for high-throughput workflows.
#Science #AI
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Huge congrats to Harriet Jones for winning best poster at #IBSim-4i!
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Huge congrats to Harriet Jones for winning best poster at #IBSim-4i!
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
She's leading our project adapting #code_saturne for on-the-fly simulation from CT data enabling autonomous workflows.
Thx judges & sponsor #3Dmagination!
#IBSim4i #Simulation #Physics #CFD #AutonomousScience #chemsky #BattChat
At PorTo, ILL's new beamline, tackling Li-ion failure: electrolyte consumption, interlayer buckling, & overcharge.
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
At PorTo, ILL's new beamline, tackling Li-ion failure: electrolyte consumption, interlayer buckling, & overcharge.
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
Running high-res neutron imaging + multi-modal (X-ray/Neutron) correlation & unsupervised AI.
Thx Bratislav Lukić!
#Liion #ILL #CorrelativeImaging #DataScience #chemsky #BattChat
In-situ dark field X-ray microscopy of solid state batteries this week. Seriously challenging experiment, thank you to the whole team at ID03 @esrf.fr
September 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In-situ dark field X-ray microscopy of solid state batteries this week. Seriously challenging experiment, thank you to the whole team at ID03 @esrf.fr
Pocket coffee for those 4am beamtimes
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Pocket coffee for those 4am beamtimes
Pretty exciting beamtime at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social I13-2 this week. We're going from manual sample centering to a fully automated process with a Yasakawa arm, hitting 150 battery samples a day and swapping optics from nm to µm resolution.
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pretty exciting beamtime at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social I13-2 this week. We're going from manual sample centering to a fully automated process with a Yasakawa arm, hitting 150 battery samples a day and swapping optics from nm to µm resolution.
Well that's incredibly satisfying, new refactored code building and running a CI/CD pipeline in Github Actions. Only took 165 trys.....
April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well that's incredibly satisfying, new refactored code building and running a CI/CD pipeline in Github Actions. Only took 165 trys.....
Signs of life again....Watch this space
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Signs of life again....Watch this space
Harwell, home of the endangered bee orchid. Always impressed by the work of the conservationist team on site led by Bill Temple, looking forward to seeing them flower
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Harwell, home of the endangered bee orchid. Always impressed by the work of the conservationist team on site led by Bill Temple, looking forward to seeing them flower
One of those days today
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One of those days today
@helenczerski.bsky.social Very immersive writing Helen
February 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@helenczerski.bsky.social Very immersive writing Helen
Need to figure out a less muddy cycle to RAL....
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Need to figure out a less muddy cycle to RAL....
A whole lot of equipment for such a small sample. Looking at all-solid-state battery designs this week with the LEC lab of @psich.bsky.social. Correlated XCT and depth profiled diffraction at #DIAD of #DiamondLightSource
#MaterialsScience #netzero #EnergyMaterials #solidstate #battery #ChemSky
#MaterialsScience #netzero #EnergyMaterials #solidstate #battery #ChemSky
December 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
A whole lot of equipment for such a small sample. Looking at all-solid-state battery designs this week with the LEC lab of @psich.bsky.social. Correlated XCT and depth profiled diffraction at #DIAD of #DiamondLightSource
#MaterialsScience #netzero #EnergyMaterials #solidstate #battery #ChemSky
#MaterialsScience #netzero #EnergyMaterials #solidstate #battery #ChemSky