Erick Ratamero
@erickratamero.com
Cross-posting from idlethumbs.social/@ratamero
half respectable professional (life sciences data stuff), half nerdy gremlin. views my own etc etc. he/him/ele
https://erickratamero.com
half respectable professional (life sciences data stuff), half nerdy gremlin. views my own etc etc. he/him/ele
https://erickratamero.com
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Erick Ratamero
@erickratamero.com
· Aug 22
ok, I am now over 1k followers (!!!) and have a new job, so new pinned post: hi! I'm Erick. I just started work as the new Data Management Coordinator in the Data Science Centre at EMBL. Most of my work is on open-source tools to help people manage their data. Glad to have you here!
The OME meeting has followed me from New England to Germany! consistently my favorite scientific meeting of the year, with the nicest community anywhere. Join us there!
19th #OME Community Meeting, Düsseldorf · 28–30 April 2026
Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools.
Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026):
gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...
Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools.
Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026):
gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...
19th OME Community Meeting - German BioImaging
Join us for the 19th Open Microscopy Environment (OME) Community Meeting from 28.-30.4.2026, in the Haus der Universität Düsseldorf. Invited Speakers Carole Goble – Keynote – Jean-Marie Burel Josh Moo...
gerbi-gmb.de
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The OME meeting has followed me from New England to Germany! consistently my favorite scientific meeting of the year, with the nicest community anywhere. Join us there!
I disappeared from the world for 4h and finished this in one sitting. Really fun one-of-these (solve mystery on computer). Just hard enough to be enjoyable, well-written, fun to interact with, cool little tangents you can go on. Strong recommend!
TR-49: OUT NOW
Narrative deduction / audio drama
"Outstanding" - PC Gamer
"Politically fierce" - Polygon
"One of the best" - Thinky Games
"I wanted to know everything" - RPS
"Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer
$6.99 / ~6 hours
Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk
iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7
Narrative deduction / audio drama
"Outstanding" - PC Gamer
"Politically fierce" - Polygon
"One of the best" - Thinky Games
"I wanted to know everything" - RPS
"Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer
$6.99 / ~6 hours
Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk
iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7
TR-49 - Official Trailer
YouTube video by inkleStudios
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I disappeared from the world for 4h and finished this in one sitting. Really fun one-of-these (solve mystery on computer). Just hard enough to be enjoyable, well-written, fun to interact with, cool little tangents you can go on. Strong recommend!
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We Are hiring!! 👨💻👩💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!
Data and Systems Steward
Salary for this Role: From £43,630 with benefits, subject to skills and experience. Job Title: Data and Systems Steward Reports to: Kurt Anderson Closing Date: 08/Feb/2026 23.59 GMT Job Description: D...
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:17 PM
We Are hiring!! 👨💻👩💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!
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Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Workflows Developer
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s life sciences laboratory – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the ...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Workflows Developer
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s life sciences laboratory – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the ...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
The thing that's different this time is that the plausible deniability, the pretense, is fully gone. The US feels like it doesn't even need THAT anymore. The underlying violence and corruption have been there for decades, it's just cranked up to 11 and mask off now.
January 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The thing that's different this time is that the plausible deniability, the pretense, is fully gone. The US feels like it doesn't even need THAT anymore. The underlying violence and corruption have been there for decades, it's just cranked up to 11 and mask off now.
Spent the last day of the year (how else?) seeing up a self-hosted cloud drive, with auto-upload for the photos I take on my phone and everything. The "Erick self-hosts everything he's not forced to use for work (and email)" dream is dangerously close.
December 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Spent the last day of the year (how else?) seeing up a self-hosted cloud drive, with auto-upload for the photos I take on my phone and everything. The "Erick self-hosts everything he's not forced to use for work (and email)" dream is dangerously close.
finally bothered moving from proton to mullvad for VPN and 1) one more step towards moving off proton for everything 2) my very brittle house-of-cards networking situation doesn't implode any longer when I connect my raspberry pi to the VPN
December 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
finally bothered moving from proton to mullvad for VPN and 1) one more step towards moving off proton for everything 2) my very brittle house-of-cards networking situation doesn't implode any longer when I connect my raspberry pi to the VPN
The two TV shows I want to watch over the break are Ludwig and Poker Face season 2. Which makes me think I should just bite the bullet and watch all of Columbo, finally
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The two TV shows I want to watch over the break are Ludwig and Poker Face season 2. Which makes me think I should just bite the bullet and watch all of Columbo, finally
my gifts to the world on christmas eve: an UNBEATABLE speedrun (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAp...) and corresponding SRC leaderboard (www.speedrun.com/UNBEATABLE)
UNBEATABLE story mode any% (3:10:26)
YouTube video by erickratamero
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
my gifts to the world on christmas eve: an UNBEATABLE speedrun (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAp...) and corresponding SRC leaderboard (www.speedrun.com/UNBEATABLE)
is UNBEATABLE a fun speedrun? one way to find out. www.twitch.tv/ratamero
ratamero - Twitch
ratamero streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
www.twitch.tv
December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
is UNBEATABLE a fun speedrun? one way to find out. www.twitch.tv/ratamero
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Idk if I posted this. I'm hosting a panel at MAGFest next month talking about how race and racism seeps into media and the spaces that surround it.
If you're going, this is DEFINITELY one you should come to :)
builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...
If you're going, this is DEFINITELY one you should come to :)
builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Idk if I posted this. I'm hosting a panel at MAGFest next month talking about how race and racism seeps into media and the spaces that surround it.
If you're going, this is DEFINITELY one you should come to :)
builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...
If you're going, this is DEFINITELY one you should come to :)
builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...
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I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...
These are the games I played in 2025 – Erick Martins Ratamero, Ph.D.
Big year for me, big year for games?
pages.erickratamero.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...
I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...
These are the games I played in 2025 – Erick Martins Ratamero, Ph.D.
Big year for me, big year for games?
pages.erickratamero.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...
Did a little over 40km on the ebike today, in which was probably the longest bike ride of my life. Sure, I'm not putting 100% of the power that goes into it, but 80% of a lot is still a lot
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Did a little over 40km on the ebike today, in which was probably the longest bike ride of my life. Sure, I'm not putting 100% of the power that goes into it, but 80% of a lot is still a lot
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We’re looking for a Community Manager to help shape and support the growing scverse ecosystem.
Deadline January 10, 2026!
More details here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/d...
Deadline January 10, 2026!
More details here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/d...
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We’re looking for a Community Manager to help shape and support the growing scverse ecosystem.
Deadline January 10, 2026!
More details here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/d...
Deadline January 10, 2026!
More details here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/d...
Ok, the Star Wars Holiday Special is about as bad as I expected it to be, but not in the way I expected: I went in prepared for a no-budget light adventure with questionable decisions and what I got was a tacky variety show.
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Ok, the Star Wars Holiday Special is about as bad as I expected it to be, but not in the way I expected: I went in prepared for a no-budget light adventure with questionable decisions and what I got was a tacky variety show.
re. last RT: I know "self host a Jellyfin server" is not an option for everyone but: have an mp3 library. Buy your music from the artists. Stop paying rent for it - especially when the landlord sucks and no money goes to the musicians.
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
re. last RT: I know "self host a Jellyfin server" is not an option for everyone but: have an mp3 library. Buy your music from the artists. Stop paying rent for it - especially when the landlord sucks and no money goes to the musicians.
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if you desperately need analytics just plug your shit into LastFM and realise you spent an unreasonable amount of the year listening to the title theme from "space ghost coast to coast"
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
if you desperately need analytics just plug your shit into LastFM and realise you spent an unreasonable amount of the year listening to the title theme from "space ghost coast to coast"
What can I say? I am a cultured man.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What can I say? I am a cultured man.
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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Unicode normalization.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Unicode normalization.
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MASSIVE thank you to everyone involved in this year's I2K meeting - 32 SUPER sessions from our volunteer presenters, and so many super-engaged participants.
HUGE shoutout to Aditi from @bioimagingna.bsky.social for being the organizational wizard!
See you in the recordings and at next year's!
HUGE shoutout to Aditi from @bioimagingna.bsky.social for being the organizational wizard!
See you in the recordings and at next year's!
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
MASSIVE thank you to everyone involved in this year's I2K meeting - 32 SUPER sessions from our volunteer presenters, and so many super-engaged participants.
HUGE shoutout to Aditi from @bioimagingna.bsky.social for being the organizational wizard!
See you in the recordings and at next year's!
HUGE shoutout to Aditi from @bioimagingna.bsky.social for being the organizational wizard!
See you in the recordings and at next year's!
Past me packing the boxes for this move clearly thought the right answer for "how many HDMI and Ethernet cables should you have" was "as many as you can get your hands on"
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Past me packing the boxes for this move clearly thought the right answer for "how many HDMI and Ethernet cables should you have" was "as many as you can get your hands on"
Very few things are as satisfying as mentally going "I think there's about a minute I can shave from this run purely on execution" and then you go a whole four minutes faster and still have things to clean up. Practice and repetition - even just a little bit of it - are superpowers.
there's no speedrunning leaderboard for The Séance of Blake Manor yet. Someone's gotta start working on it, and it may as well be me www.twitch.tv/ratamero
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Very few things are as satisfying as mentally going "I think there's about a minute I can shave from this run purely on execution" and then you go a whole four minutes faster and still have things to clean up. Practice and repetition - even just a little bit of it - are superpowers.