Wyoming Wormboy
@wyomingwormboy.bsky.social
Science, students, and service. Serious academic meets incurable class clown.
Oh man, what a race! Last year of racing for the best cross country skier in the history of North America.
Superstar Jessie Diggins! A great athlete.
USA’s Jessie Diggins Claims First Career Skiathlon & 30th World Cup Victory At Trondheim, Norway - SnowBrains
Team USA’s Jessie Diggins today claimed her first-ever Skiathlon World Cup victory at the World Cup in Trondheim, Norway. America’s most successful cross-country skier of all time showed incredible te...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Oh man, what a race! Last year of racing for the best cross country skier in the history of North America.
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Huge congratulations to Minnesota’s own Jessie Diggins on an incredible career as she retires from competitive cross-country skiing! An Olympic gold medalist, you made us all proud. We can’t wait to cheer you on in 76 days!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Minnesotan Jessie Diggins announces upcoming retirement from ski racing
Diggins has won three Olympic medals, three World Cup titles and seven world championship medals in her career — most of which the 34-year-old won while competing with glitter on her cheeks.
www.mprnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Huge congratulations to Minnesota’s own Jessie Diggins on an incredible career as she retires from competitive cross-country skiing! An Olympic gold medalist, you made us all proud. We can’t wait to cheer you on in 76 days!
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Waiting for snow to cover our trails. Late start to the ski season in the west.
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Waiting for snow to cover our trails. Late start to the ski season in the west.
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Worm people are the best
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental
to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
www.pnas.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Worm people are the best
From The Onion’s brilliant editorial cartoonist. Unquestionably the most accurate depiction of a generic research scientist ever rendered.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
From The Onion’s brilliant editorial cartoonist. Unquestionably the most accurate depiction of a generic research scientist ever rendered.
Pole creek in November
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Pole creek in November
Most of the people we read about are those we already knew were horrible or have just been revealed to be horrible.
Jessie Diggins, North America’s greatest cross country skier, has been a consistent antidote. Sad she’s retiring but am grateful to have witnessed one of her top 3 moments.
Jessie Diggins, North America’s greatest cross country skier, has been a consistent antidote. Sad she’s retiring but am grateful to have witnessed one of her top 3 moments.
Three Frames: Jessie Diggins and the Art of What Endures – FasterSkier
“Hi, everyone,” she began, smiling with that practiced combination of approachability and poise that has made her — for more than a decade — the emotional center of American cross-country skiing.
fasterskier.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Most of the people we read about are those we already knew were horrible or have just been revealed to be horrible.
Jessie Diggins, North America’s greatest cross country skier, has been a consistent antidote. Sad she’s retiring but am grateful to have witnessed one of her top 3 moments.
Jessie Diggins, North America’s greatest cross country skier, has been a consistent antidote. Sad she’s retiring but am grateful to have witnessed one of her top 3 moments.
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There’s never been a better use of this meme in meme history. 😅
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
There’s never been a better use of this meme in meme history. 😅
Ok. I have a boring science question. And it’s very basic but not necessarily easy to answer:
What method would be your top choice for showing that two proteins physically interact?
What method would be your top choice for showing that two proteins physically interact?
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ok. I have a boring science question. And it’s very basic but not necessarily easy to answer:
What method would be your top choice for showing that two proteins physically interact?
What method would be your top choice for showing that two proteins physically interact?
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shared the @andyfraser.bsky.social smol-seq paper with some colleagues recently. it's a powerful conceptual advance that could open up a new branch of genomics, slotting nicely alongside advances in single-cell and spatial omics. check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quantifying metabolites using structure-switching aptamers coupled to DNA sequencing - Nature Biotechnology
Metabolites can be quantified using a combination of aptamers and DNA barcodes.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
shared the @andyfraser.bsky.social smol-seq paper with some colleagues recently. it's a powerful conceptual advance that could open up a new branch of genomics, slotting nicely alongside advances in single-cell and spatial omics. check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Lander WY sunset
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Lander WY sunset
Interesting sky…
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Interesting sky…
Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.
I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat.
It’s a ruse.
It’s a ruse.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.
Hania Rani — Hello: live session in the mountains
YouTube video by Gondwana Records
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Reading this, it truly resonates how fortunate we were that Jim Watson never took an interest in social media.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reading this, it truly resonates how fortunate we were that Jim Watson never took an interest in social media.