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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
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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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Specifically the English loanwords present in both Japanese and German turn out to be the most difficult for me to pronounce correctly in German, because the Japanese pronunciation is so deeply ingrained. For example: meter, software, computer. These are not hard to pronounce in isolation, but the first syllable is close enough (at my level of pronunciation, at least) to always, always trigger autocomplete in Japanese. I struggle somewhat less on arbeit(en) because it has a German pronunciation that's very different from the Japanese.
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German Fedi, I'm lying awake thinking about how all three times I've tried a milkshake here it has been so terrible I would hesitate to call it a milkshake. So I ask you: what is a milkshake? What goes into it? Have you made one at home? I need to know if this is a difference in definition or if I've just had the worst luck.
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I have incurred a coworker's ire today, and I'm 98% sure this person is just stressed for other reasons and taking it out on me, but it still does not feel good.

The other stressors mean it is not a good time to push back, and we generally have a good relationship, so letting it go is the right call for today.

But. I am irritated.