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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
@Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)

Structural biology (XFEL crystallography, cryoEM, electron crystallography) data processing methods developer. I use my degree in chemistry to write software to use physics to understand biology. As of 2024, based in Hamburg. Ich hätte gern, wenn du mein schlecht Deutsch korrigierst, ob du das willst.

70% coffee by volume. I’m really into electronics, 3D printing, and sewing right now, and trying very hard to learn German. I have a very fluffy and affectionate cat. Big fan of bicycles and trains, better public infrastructure generally, and investment in collective wellbeing generally. Food motivated; very easily bribed with coffee and pastries. Always learning. On the spectrum (hard X-ray, ~12 keV).

I'd rather you get a sense of my values from checking my feed, but in very-very-brief, fascism is bad, open source and open science are necessary but not sufficient, and the right to repair includes yourself.

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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 13h
I hate preparing talks, but I've realized I hate it less when slide prep involves writing my own functions for how I want things formatted and then knowing they will be applied uniformly. Typst has so...
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Ah yes, now I remember why I dropped Typst the last time I picked it up. When you go to start the presentation, it says that's only available with a Pro subscription (creating the presentation is free).

I can download a PDF without paying anything, but still. Dark patterns. I avoid businesses that pull these kinds of things.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) profile picture
I hate preparing talks, but I've realized I hate it less when slide prep involves writing my own functions for how I want things formatted and then knowing they will be applied uniformly. Typst has some flaws -- it says it's all markdown, but in practice it's closer to LaTeX than it will admit, but it's also not quite LaTeX, so there are also things you can't do.... still. This addresses my greatest pain points with Powerpoint and LibreOffice. I will probably either stick with Typst or move to LaTeX when I hit its limits.
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5h
Ah yes, now I remember why I dropped Typst the last time I picked it up. When you go to start the presentation, it says that's only available with a Pro subscription (creating the presentation is free). I can download a PDF without paying anything, but still. Dark patterns. I avoid businesses that ...
GeePawHill · 2d
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe7rqcsp5pypj3ac5wxnvgnwxmdl5the60wggwlqytaxm9kql0cdstw3qha When I worked in China, every day as I sat down in the cafeteria, I began by apologizi...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I tried relearning knife-and-fork but I gave up pretty early on as I determined language was more immediately important. Don't know if I'll ever try again. I'm also just so clumsy generally that I don't know if it would matter? But perhaps separating the work between two hands would actually help me.
smallsolar · 3d
Dear all - I'm starting to bundle up my work on porting mainline linux to the Kindle Paperwhite3 - I've got most of the major features but the install process is complicated. I'm going to put togethe...
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@nprofile1q... If you have a pet, person, or place to name it after I would say a standard, not-too-clever name is actually best. Perhaps a type of tree that grows in the alps if you want to reference Alpine and, more distantly, paper? One specific mountain or city in the Alps?

My favorite factoid about the region is that Romansh is a romance language only spoken there, by around 60 thousand people, but it's one of the official languages of Switzerland, alongside German, French and Italian. So personally I think it would be really cool to use a Romansh word relating to books or paper.