draadjes

the threads I collected along the way

My desk (Winter 2026)

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I like to photograph my desk, periodically. This is my desk at the lab, about four months into my PhD.

View from the door of my office.
View from the door of my office. You see two desks placed against each other, next to the window. It's very dark outside. My desk is on the left. A computer stands next to my desk and on top of it sits an old-fashioned LCD screen with a lab usage monitor on the TTY. On top of my desk are a couple of screens.
A closer look at my desk.
A bit closer. You can see a large vertical monitor in the middle, with to its right another, smaller vertical monitor. On the left is a large horizontal monitor. At the center of my desk I have my keyboard and mouse. Some pens, markers, books, notebooks, and a cup on the right of the desk. On the right I have a pencil case and a piece I'm knitting.
Wide-angle view of the desk.

I have a number of very good objects at my office that I love.

A closer view of the lab usage monitor.
A closer view of the lab usage monitor. It has a beige bezel, a bentopy sticker, and a red old press-in letter label that I found somewhere. On my desk you can see my BiNaS and the K+R C Programming Language. Wedged into the smaller vertical monitor stand is a molecule model. It's an amino acid, just hanging out.
Where I sit.
A better view of where I sit. You see a white wall with a bunch of artwork and posters magnetted up in the corner where a large metal beam stands in the wall. You can also see my cup filled with great whiteboard markers. Only good markers are welcome in my office.
Artworks behind my chair.
The artwork stuck to the steel beam behind my chair.

As a computational biochemist, I consider my whiteboard markers to be like my micropipettes.

My whiteboard.
The whiteboard in our office. There's a bunch of cryptic things scribbled on it in a very wide range of colors. I love how it looks. This is what doing science looks like to me.
My markers at the whiteboard.
A detail of the corner, where you can see a green and red Pilot V Board Master Wyteboard Marker, and an Expo chisel dry erase in pink.

I really like my little space.

Another view of my desk.