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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.

Hugs: yes please. Flirting: no thank you. Please have your bio filled out when you follow-request.

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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 1d
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@nprofile1q... Oh absolutely — let me clear up what I think is a misunderstanding, first of all. When I mentioned "someone senior" I meant full professor, eminent in the field, wasn't supposed to be in the room by any measure. And by "debatable intent" I mean the questions could be viewed as criticisms, not actually questions.

With that out of the way, yes, this early career programming is deliberate about this wording because we've had that issue raised and tried to address it. In practice the "young scientists" imagery sticks, and if you have any suggestions to counter, I'm all ears!
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5d
I've been elected co-chair of the early career segment of the meeting I value most in my field? And I don't regret it? Yet? I think I might be experiencing character growth.
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Friends, I have two years to figure out how to sneak in some positive change. It's already an event I absolutely love, so it's actually hard for me to come up with what I would want to change, but currently on my list are:



Ensuring the early career attendees get to ask the questions during the early career talks. We've had a couple cases of someone senior contributing questions of debatable intent.


Ensuring session chairs pronounce speakers' names correctly. I didn't clock any missteps during early career this year but I did during the main conference, and I'm hoping to convince the main conference chairs to get session chairs to learn speakers' names as a matter of routine. Yes, that's a lot of potential points of failure.

What are other common pitfalls or areas for improvement within a co-chair's sphere of influence?
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Joseph · 2d
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@nprofile1q... surprised and upset are not the same thing. I have work on github mainly as part of other research groups (not under my control where they put it) but also some side projects, and even if I only put new work in my own repos elsewhere, a lot of my contributions will be on github for the foreseeable future.

Coming at it from a different angle, it doesn't sit right with me to shame people for getting upset about their consent being violated, regardless of whether they should know better. Practically speaking, unless my understanding of psychology is wrong, the most likely responses to this are either to dig your heels in (what I'm doing here) or to stop complaining about it and just let it happen (I am guessing you also aren't thrilled with this outcome). Don't punish the behavior you want to see, you know?