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Steven D. Brewer

limako@bierfaristo.com


I am a Senior Lecturer II in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2002, I have taught in the Junior Year Writing course for the Biology Department. In 2021, I received a Professional Improvement Fellowship to create a new course Open Science Instrumentation and Data Collection -- an Honors Thesis Seminar in which students create an instrument to collect scientific data for a research problem.

For more than 20 years, I served as the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Masschusetts at Amherst.

Follow @limako at twitter.

For many years, I have been interested in the Free Software movement and open technologies. I was a founding member of Makers at Amherst Media and Hack for Western Mass. I also co-founded the UMass Drupal Users Group and co-organized the Western Mass Drupal Camps which has since become NERD Summit. I was also a co-founder of our local linux users group (now defunct) WeMaLU

I speak Esperanto and there was an Esperanto version of this page.

I sometimes post essays and thoughts in Bierfaristo Blog, usually in English, but occasionally in Esperanto.

I have a linkedin page.

I've self-published several books of Esperanto haiku and original artwork which you can also buy at Amazon and elsewhere.

Long ago, I created a site for La Zne Hajkoj de Istvan Bierfaristo. Istvan also has an on-line store with various zneajxoj through cafepress.

How to Contact Steven D. Brewer

Note: I have "limako" accounts at gmail, and comcast, but don't always check them as reliably.

For private communications please use my gpg key:

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Revised 4/23/2018 Brewer