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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.

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.

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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Recent Notes

Infoseepage · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7wvc00yjkptn6xzjgqecg4pdff3x8m6t7vftap6y8nvzfqeetljseqv9vp I think you're right about the match. I couldn't find a seller on Amazon with that exact one in stock and my size. I ended up ordering some REI brand Merino wool expedition weight socks ...
Infoseepage · 1w
Does anybody recognize the brand and model of these socks? When I find something that works I like to stick with it. I wore the same brand and model of sneakers for over a dozen years before reluctant...
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@nprofile1q... they're smartwool and I think this specific one was at costco. They don't sell exactly the same one anymore, but you can find smartwool other places too, and they wear almost identically in the new design (a bit better elasticity, unless that's just a function of being my everyday socks getting worn out).
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Infoseepage · 1w
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Anita Lewis · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7wvc00yjkptn6xzjgqecg4pdff3x8m6t7vftap6y8nvzfqeetljseqv9vp This reminds me of my first semester of college. I had taken 2 years of French in high school and took a test before college that said I could skip into a second year French class. It ...
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Update: managed to extract the LiPo battery from my fitbit. Only broke one connection in the process. I don't think I have any hope of soldering at that scale, so I think whatever the front-facing camera was supposed to do (light sensing for screen brightness maybe?), that's gone. But hopefully the rest will work again when I get the replacement battery. Haven't lost any screws, and everything's tidied away in static-proof bags until then.
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Jer 🚲 · 3w
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Anita Lewis · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7wvc00yjkptn6xzjgqecg4pdff3x8m6t7vftap6y8nvzfqeetljseqv9vp I'm envious of this level of fun. Recently I had success fixing a mouse that quit working. It took two tries to get it back together right. Nowhere near the level of your job, but sati...
Petra van Cronenburg · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqhykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fschugpy 🧵 We are all aware of the deadly consequences that already happened with AI chatbo...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I could be misreading, but I think the idea is not that (only) a handful of powerful people are affected by "AI psychosis." This is also what is emerging as a symptom in regular people who now rely on AI as a babysitter, financial advisor, intern, etc. and ultimately believe the AI over the people around them. There are increasing cases of AI reinforcing people's delusions of any nature, more rapidly and consistently than any human could, until they essentially break from reality. Most visibly, AI has been fueling people thinking they are misunderstood geniuses and making it very hard to being them back to a state where they can be reasoned with.

The added danger of it happening to extremely powerful people is a consequence of their power, and thus affects us all via the ways they shape the world we live in. Delusion-driven acts on this scale are not new, but this is a new source of them.
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Petra van Cronenburg · 3w
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Amy Maybe · 4w
#Coffee drinkers: Is anyone going to want a bag of whole bean Peets coffee that was best by last August if I put it on the free table downstairs? 🤔
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@nprofile1q... whole beans survive frighteningly long under inert atmosphere. Somewhat less once they've been opened. Freezer helps, but being in and out of the freezer regularly (or stored right at the front or in the door) hurts, is the last I'd heard. There will be a healthy cohort of coffee drinkers who will still enjoy that.
Gina · 4w
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