User:Opabinia regalis

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This user is a member of WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology.

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WikiProject Biophysics.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Chemistry.

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WikiProject Women scientists.

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This user is female.

This user is a feminist, and is annoyed that the first feminist userbox is pink.

This user identifies as bisexual.

This user supports breast cancer awareness.

This is a blog post written by a woman who just quit as a Linux kernel developer: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/

Read it, but mentally replace "kernel community" with "Wikipedia community" as you go.
I'm not the author, just someone who liked that post :)

About

I mostly work on articles about biochemistry, biophysics, and related topics. I am also interested in STEM education and in issues surrounding diversity in science.

I am not interested in wikilawyering, rules-mongering, or process for the sake of process. This is an encyclopedia, not the world's largest, lamest game of Nomic.

I started out on Wikipedia sometime in 2005 with occasional anonymous typo-fixes and such, motivated by nothing more than "an open-source encyclopedia, that's cool". I actually registered in May 2006, became an admin the following November, and then drifted away in spring 2007, partly due to the Essjay controversy and mostly due to real life (OMG, that's a blue link). I returned in January 2015 and had a second RfA in April, which I think we decided was the first successful re-RfA after desysopping for lengthy inactivity.

Userspace

• An out-of-date list of articles I've contributed to
• The complaints department
• Some barnstars (aww, thanks!)
• My to-do list (See also: round tuit)
• Kittens. Because, kittens. (See also: kittens)

Other species of Opabinia

• Opabinia externa is a non-admin account for use on public networks and on my phone.
• Opabinia robotus is an old test account.