Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 15h

Who among us is willing to admit that they’ve looked up reviews for pill cutters? 🙋‍♂️

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 15h

Most if not all of my daughter’s classes this semester (Cornell) seem to make attendance part of the grade. Maybe participation is part of it too for some classes. I don’t blame the students in the story so much as the academic system we’ve created and the messaging that networking is everything.

2

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder which classes they can skip and still get high grades? All I know is that at humble Wyoming, if students routinely skipped my genetics class they were destined to fail.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

3 6

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 3d

I should have mentioned, that a normal sized horse with super tall women.

1 5

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 3d

Look who I ran into just walking outside the lab this morning!

2 1 7

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 4d

Tough times call for extraordinary flowers.

1 31

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

1 2

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 8d

www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/c...

In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen...

www.cnn.com

1 4 11

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 9d

About 1/3 of our plum harvest. We beat the raccoons!

1 29

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 9d

Deadfall and glowing aspen, Laramie, WY.

22

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 9d

Loop hike curtailed by bull moose. It’s important to be flexible.

1 9

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe this is where some of the genes I never identified from genetic screens and WGS have been hiding!

1

Reposted by Wyoming Wormboy

Erich M. Schwarz @erichmschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 1

After 10 years of work, a complete telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome for C. elegans finally exists: it has 106 Mb rather than the textbook 100.3 Mb, and up to 366 additional genes.
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...

4 37 100

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 10d

The academic bros.

1

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 10d

Can we just agree that the word “ideation” is terrible and that no self respecting person would ever use it, except maybe in jest?

1 4

Reposted by Wyoming Wormboy

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13d

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955.

Look what happened next.

57 460 1.2K

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 14d

I’m thinking that universities could save money by relieving faculty of their duties and focusing on the important things. Semi-pro sports, semi-pro sorority rush, and allowing students to segregate themselves into “exclusive” clubs for the purpose of networking after college.

2 1

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 15d

I love our state’s community colleges. The facilities and instruction can be top notch and the education is incredibly affordable. And through our statewide NIH INBRE program, students have an opportunity to carry out legit research and to see what science is like close up!