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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Recent Notes
Paying attention to what mistakes German speakers consistently make in English is highly instructive as to how the equivalent constructions will be unintuitive to me in German. One that I've noticed across multiple languages is whether to make one or both verbs past tense or conditional in compound constructions, e.g.
"Didn't you went there yesterday?"
"I thought that will be helpful"
"I didn't know that will bother you"
These all tell me what the natural construction would be in the speaker's native language. I am always excited to notice such things.
I'm pondering leaving apology gifts for my neighbors for having to listen to my coughing and making other horrible noises all night for a month.
German[ resident]s, does the bag that Ricolas come in go in the gelbe Tonne or the blaue Tonne?
which scifi author just had or is having a new book out right about now? I saw mention of it on here but I lost it and now I don't know what I'm even looking for!
cranky warning has been downgraded to cranky watch
blood test says I'm fine. I don't feel fine yet. will hydrate and rest very hard, I guess. at least my lungs feel clearer and I'm coughing up less. still very tired.
I drank my entire tea before it got cold do you know how long it's been since I've managed this????? months, maybe years.
I feel like "you're on the list" is an ominous subject line for an email, yes? or does that read to others as positive? it's a marketing email. I will be unsubscribing regardless.
sad to be unfollowing someone today who's demonstrated their values are too different from mine. As long as there's productive overlap I take it very seriously to try to stay engaged and exposed to perspectives I'm not totally in agreement with, but there are limits.
One of my hard lines is strawmanning. If you're exacerbating the divide between yourself and others by deceiving yourself about who they are, and unwilling to genuinely listen, I'm not going to keep trying to bridge that distance as a one sided effort. I'll let someone else move that needle, or at least I'll remove myself from fueling your doubling down.
My energy is better spent cultivating mutually healthy relationships. And frankly, I deserve that much. I have earned that respect from myself.
people who are even more biology/medicine than me: is it plausible that the course of antibiotics I was prescribed was inadequate and left resistant bacteria to colonize in the wake of the more susceptible ones? I took the full course as prescribed and felt a lot better, but steadily got worse again after. I am back to saving up my energy to get up and make tea.
I haven't had proper food in waaaaay too long (while out sick and not cooking). I could about die for a bowl of pho.
I will have to settle for discount canned soup. Still a step up from infinite granola bars.
I'm so tired of all of this.
someday, I will stop regurgitating small horror film extras, my body will stop assembling them in my airways, and the associated sounds will stop scaring my cat.
