A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average #Dutch person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year.
"There's a shortage of 10,000 primary school #teachers. #Dutch kids have some of the worst reading skills in all of #Europe. The nursing home waitlist is eight months long. There are 80,000 people on the waitlist for mental #health care. The average waitlist for social housing? Seven years. 8% more Dutch people die of cancer than the European average. The Tax Authority is on the verge of collapse.
When people start to feel this kind of systemic disregard for their safety & well-being, they go looking for someone to blame, & this is precisely when far-right politicians swoop in & blame foreigners." https://dutchdeadline.substack.com/p/is-the-rise-of-dutch-populism-the
Amazon is being brought before Dutch courts for abuse of customer data. If you've had/used any Amazon services for the past 5 years you are affected and may sign up for damages/court-case updates.
I guess instance migration is a good time for an #Introduction post. Hello lovely people, I'm here both as a scientific researcher and as a human being, and you can expect a range of genres of posts and interactions from me.
On the work side, I'm a computational scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the field of biological X-ray crystallography, specifically at free electron lasers. It's a glorious interdisciplinary mess, and the description I give to non-scientists is that i use my degree in chemistry to write software to do math that models the physics of experiments that we're running to learn about biology.
For fellow structural biologists: I work on crystallography data reduction software for the steps between photons hitting the detector and a merged set of structure factors. I also support XFEL experiments, both on site and remotely, and assist in post-experiment data processing as needed. My PhD focused on using simultaneous XFEL crystallography and XES spectroscopy to probe the water splitting reaction in oxygenic photosynthesis. I did a postdoc in computational methods development for cryoEM, and I'm now back to XFEL crystallography but still in methods development.
For fellow software developers: all of our work is open source and mostly under the cctbx project/repo. It's mostly python with a bunch of C++ under the hood (including some low-level stuff redundant with scipy and numpy because those weren't around yet!), plus a user-facing wxPython GUI. More recently we've done a ton of work with GPU acceleration (using Kokkos, for NVIDIA, Intel and AMD architectures) and scaling up at three different national labs' supercomputing centers in anticipation of next-gen experimental capabilities. I derive too much joy from writing bash-sed-awk monstrosities on the occasions we need them to fix an urgent problem during an experiment, and I guess I'm most proud of the fact that I somewhat understand git.
As far as hobbies, the longest-standing one is probably #coffee, followed closely by #language (s) / #languageLearning and a love of #patterns and #symmetry in various contexts. I have too many different ways of making coffee (they have overrun my coffee cupboard), but my favorite remains the classic latte, and by now I can make a better latte than I can buy. I'm trying to refresh my #Japanese and learn #Dutch and #German simultaneously/comparatively, which of course is terrible for speed of learning, but fascinating. So far I've found #ASL the most challenging but also deeply satisfying -- I only have one semester under my belt but hope to take a lot more. I studied and continue to study all the #math and #science I possibly can. Right now I seem to be pretty engrossed in #electronics, #CAD, #3DPrinting, and just generally #DIY-ing/fixing/repairing things. Other active interests include #sewing, #reading, #cooking, #bike commuting, and #publicTransit. My journeys in #aikido and #pottery are on hold but I definitely want to pick them back up when I'm not already overcommitted. I'm casually interested in #neurophilosophy, #neuropsychology, #neurodivergence and #neuroscience. I've taken one course in neurophilosophy and can read literature in the rest, with effort.
On a personal note, I'm trans and nonbinary and very open about it -- I transitioned back when I had to explain what that meant. I've retired from some forms of community engagement and support but I'm very happy to answer any questions I can about the US legal and medical landscapes, available resources, policy and terminology best practices, or whatever you know you shouldn't ask [person in your life].
Finally, I spend a lot of time with my cat Rory (pictured), who is perfect and the most affectionate creature I have ever met. I promise to share photos of him from time to time.
Someone told us matrix.ccc.ac is blocked by some Dutch ISPs. Someone said the VodafoneZiggo DNS resolves to unavailable.for.legal.reasons.ziggo (213.46.185.10) and people using Telekom NL reportedly have issues.
We ran a RIPE Atlas measurement across all Dutch RIPE probes, but none of them returned a spoofed DNS result.
Can anyone confirm these issues? Can you also test matrix.aachen.ccc.de, ccc.ac, and ccc.de? Thanks! #netherlands#dutch#hsnl
Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Friday she hoped the country's military support to #Ukraine would continue even under a new government led by anti-#EU populist Geert #Wilders.
"I hope and expect this will not change in the new parliament. But the #PVV is now the largest party and they have never been enthusiastic about support to Ukraine. They have even been pro-#Russia at times. So that has me worried."
The #Dutch word for harvest is 'oogst'. The double O in there is pronounced as a long O, which may give you a clue to its origin: it is derived from the name of the month August, traditionally a time of harvest.
Funnily enough, the Dutch word for autumn is 'herfst'. You guessed it: that's related to the English harvest. It originally referred to the time of harvesting. In English it came to refer to harvesting itself, in other languages to the season of autumn.
At least two major #European paint companies continue to do extensive business in #Russia. #Finnish#Tikkurila and #Dutch#AkzoNobel remain the largest manufacturers of paints and coatings in the aggressor country, and the end users of their products include Russian government agencies, along with entities working in #Russian-occupied areas of #Ukraine.
The companies’ Russian operations have been aided by imports of ingredients that fall on the #EU's sanctions list.
A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average #Dutch person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year. HT @Cycling_Embassy https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-views-to-sports-2021
Bouteille à la mer mais je traduis Pa de Doe Maar en français pour m'occuper et est ce que c'est OK de choisir "à l'aveuglette" pour "met mun ogen dicht" parce qu'en français les yeux fermés ça montre la maîtrise alors que là le boug et paumé? #traduction#dutch#neerlandais#nederlands
"Let's stop moaning and nagging and whining about #Trump."
Outgoing #Dutch Prime Minister Mark #Rutte told DW that Western allies should focus on ramping up military capabilities and supporting #Ukraine instead of worrying about who will be the next #US president.
As mentioned during our last meetup, we will NOT be hosting the March meetup due to the overlapping #Dutch#PHP#Conference.
Instead we'd like to invite you to visit us at the #DPC24, where we'll have a community table to promote #010PHP, and maybe even host some hallway-talks! We hope to see you all there. If you don't have ticket yet, ask us for the 010PHP-10% discount code.
There's so many little things the new #Dutch xenophobic rightwing / anti-environment government will make worse.
Here's one most people will have missed:
In the early 2000 my "farmer" classmates got diesel cars as their first vehicle. They'd fill it up with "red diesel", a very cheap (no sales & excise tax) fuel legally only to be used in farm vehicles.
Despite stern warnings only one of them ever had its fuel checked. He received a small fine.