Kat Steinke

Er kommet i gang! Afprøver gratisudgaven af Protonmail og evaluerer på "skiftedagen".

I 2026 vil jeg endelig tage mig sammen til at flytte min e-mail til en europæisk/EEA tjeneste

Accountability post for mit nytårsforsæt i år - skal bare liiiige komme af med min choice paralysis... #DanmarkSkifter

First time I scored a mini cabin on the Nightjet home! Hopefully not the last either, definitely felt it was worth it. My only regret is that I couldn't buy the Nightjet-branded socks they apparently sell...

3 panel-comic of a black cat that is sitting close to the number 2025, then looks at it and then pushes it down, so that 2025 drops from the table.

bye 2025👋

Bitte unterschreibt und teilt diese Petition, sie liegt direkt beim Bundestag. Bis zum 13.1.26 müssen die 30.000 voll gemacht werden.

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

I'd be an Imperial Auditor on Barrayar. Well, it'd be *interesting*...

Most of my biking is commuting, with #ViCyklerTilArbejde in May giving a little nudge to go on a quick detour, so my memories aren't nearly as interesting, but I do also kind of want to celebrate the time I picked up ten kilos of Danish Nancy Drew books for a friend by bike because I could.

#UnplugTrump: So wirst du unabhängig von Tech-Milliardären Wer die eigenen Daten vor rechten Tech-Bros und dem Zugriff der USA schützen möchte, sollte sie von den Plattformen der amerikanischen Quasi-Monopolisten abziehen. Diese Alternativen gibt es zu Facebo...

"Wer eigene Daten vor rechten Tech-Bros und dem Zugriff der USA schützen möchte, sollte sie von den Plattformen der amerikanischen Quasi-Monopolisten abziehen. Diese Alternativen gibt es zu Facebook, Google, X, WhatsApp und Co."
@netzpolitik.org auf Basis von Kuketz.
netzpolitik.org/2025/unplugt...

Argumentationstipps gegen rechte Sprüche an Weihnachten AfD-Phrasen an Weihnachten? Warum Widerspruch im familiären Umfeld wirkt, wann Diskussionen sinnvoll sind und weshalb Selbstfürsorge Teil politischer Haltung ist.

Weihnachten ist kein politikfreier Raum. Zwischen Gänsebraten und Plätzchen kann es vorkommen, dass am Tannenbaum rechtsextreme Sprüche fallen. Wie du Haltung zeigst, klar Grenzen setzt und wann Diskussionen sinnvoll sind, ohne dich aufzureiben.
www.belltower.news/argumentatio...

(Just want to shout out Katleen Vranckx as well! Not sure if she's on here but she helped a lot with the debugging and was the one who tracked down the offending parameter.)

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I'm so impressed by this-- what a fun way to teach SQL! I had a good time playing through it just now:

GitHub - rrwick/condaenvlist: a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions - rrwick/condaenvlist

Do you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them?

If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...

Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

It'd be too much to hope that the "heavy traffic" is just people preemptively scraping the database, wouldn't it... (And utterly surreal that this is something one hopes for.)

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

STAR WARS immunization poster from 20th Century Fox and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1977.

Aktuell werden auf demokrateam.org 46 Demonstrationen & weitere Veranstaltungen nur für heute angezeigt 👉

#LauteWissenschaft im Wahljahr 2025: Eure Stimme zählt! Was können wir tun gegen demokratie- und menschenfeindliche Politik, die auch auf unsere Community abzielt? Wir können — und sollten! — unsere Rolle als Multiplikator_innen nutzen und zum Wählen aufru...

27 Tage bis zur vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl. Wissenschaft hat Grund zur Sorge angesichts wissenschafts-, demokratie- & menschenfeindlicher Politik. Was tun? 1️⃣ Relevanz von Demokratie & Menschenrechten betonen. 2️⃣ ALLE, die uns zuhören, auffordern, von Wahlrecht Gebrauch zu machen!⬇️ #LauteWissenschaft

That DNA pattern looks great, though! You wouldn't happen to have the pattern lying around somewhere? I only have... three ongoing projects and a giant mend pile, another project would be an excellent life choice.

„Only Kirk continued eating - out of the conviction that he needed strength to face the coming events. The reader should do the same - and enjoy a strengthening snack in the meantime. He [sic] only needs to interrupt the exciting reading briefly. For in just five minutes, a hearty warm meal can be prepared. For that, one only needs a spoon, hot water and…“

„Self-sufficiency is the principle of the soldiers at the river bank. A keyword that should make the reader pay attention - because with this method, he [sic] is independent as well. Of course, he doesn’t need to plant his food himself in our world. For him, it’s enough to prepare a cup and heat water. Everything he then needs is…“

„When the sensors register a dramatic change in overall status geometry, you can only look at the instruments helplessly. We down here on Earth fortunately always have the option to take a break from reading and consume something nourishing to be better prepared for further excitement on the Enterprise. After all, for a little nourishment in between all one needs is a cup, hot water and…“

Star Trek had plenty of them too. I got a box of Star Trek novels from the Soup Era from a friend of the family’s and they really have some questionable gems.

Title: Gender Census 2024. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Two boxes, one green malachite with a Venus symbol on it, one pink rhodochrosite with a Mars symbol on it.

The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

That panel discussion question about IT is giving me flashbacks to the time all of my tests suddenly failed because IT had blocked .tsv files…

A phylogenetic tree of chocolate bars with a banana as an outgroup

Starting the last day of #ESCMIDGlobal with some wonderful illustrations by @torstenseemann.bsky.social - I am absolutely borrowing the concept next time I need to explain phylogeny (though I might need to localize it by adding licorice…)

No conference blogging today, tried to follow along online but the only thing that really was productive today was my cough 😷

Title slide of a talk entitled “Plasmid spread from ST79 NDM-5/OXA-48 producing Enterobacter hormaechei from contaminated dicloxacillin capsules to other Enterobacterales in patients” by Astrid Rasmussen

And last year’s dicloxacillin sleuthing getting a follow-up at #ESCMIDGlobal this year: Astrid Rasmussen from SSI on investigating the spread of the resistance plasmids

#ESCMIDGlobal impressions day 2: lots of results for Nanopore 16S in clinical diagnostics

(Wasn’t active enough for The Bird Site to keep my account alive, so all my conference blogging is here now.)

A poster titled “Evaluation of decentralized Salmonella serovar prediction by whole genome sequencing”: poster 28 in row 19 in sector A

Catch me at #ESCMIDGlobal today with some results from one year of sequencing at Odense University Hospital’s department of clinical microbiology: how does our WGS-based Salmonella serovar ID hold up to the reference lab’s?

Primär beim Aufräumen, Geschirr spülen,… seit ich Hoaxilla entdeckt habe kommen mir Gedanken wie „ich konnte doch mal die Fußleisten abstauben… und Hoaxilla hören…..“ etwas öfter XD