New instance, new introduction!
I am curious about many things, and wish I had the time to practice everything, but some of the activities that have consistently been bringing joy to me are: baking bread and pastries, long-distance hiking, programming, folding paper, juggling, learning things, and listening to people talking about their passions!
For a living, I work in academia, currently as a post-doctoral researcher at Inria. I am using mathematical modeling, Bayesian statistics and scientific computing to solve biological problems usually involving bacteria.
I wish I could not care about politics, but I feel compelled to act and express my opinions by the state of the world. I am deeply appalled and terrified about the ongoing environmental and social emergencies. I am still trying to figure out how to best act in order to be the most helpful on these fronts.
I strongly believe in the Commons: public services, open access and open source, and I am involved in the development of several scientific open source packages, hoping that this is an effective way to use my skills and energy to help improve the world.
I have been on Mastodon for a couple of years now and I really like it here, thank you for having me 😊 ❤️