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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the Purple Viking potato harvest. My wife is an amazing gardener.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

A question deserving of a PhD dissertation. Maybe two.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should bring the moose to Laramie and set him loose on all our statues with cowboys riding broncs! Now THAT could get interesting!

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 1d

And in other extremely important Wyoming news…

Yearling bull moose seeks to seduce — or subjugate — Wilson elk statue

A yearling bull moose caused a stir last Friday when it mounted a statue of a bull elk outside the Fish Creek Center in Wilson.

www.jhnewsandguide.com

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 2d

I could give you a list of reasons… but I get that your question was rhetorical. It is a bummer nevertheless. 😑 Go for a hike this weekend.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s non-decorative squash season…

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 3d

Very true Dr. Starr! It’s important to know one’s limitations! ✡️

Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 3d

I think I probably set the record for least inspirational inspiration talk yesterday, and that’s saying something.
#PILife

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 9d

Tough times call for extraordinary flowers.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 9d

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

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 14d

Deadfall and glowing aspen, Laramie, WY.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 14d

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

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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...

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 15d

The academic bros.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18d

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955.

Look what happened next.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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