Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These 7 cicadas were collected in Columbia and St. Louis, MO in 1998 during a huge emergence of Broods IV & XIX. Anyone out there doing pop gen, etc that could use them? I’ll send them to you. 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Did my semi-annual perusal of my Facebook feed and saw an ad for books from Springer. One of these is not like the others… 110
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 09/12/2025One of my kids had a band concert tonight at Lincoln Southwest HS, and as I was waiting to file into the gym, I noticed a LSW alum from 2012 who was highlighted as a Science Olympiad winner. Name was familiar… @celestelabedz.bsky.social 200
Reposted by Wayne RiekhofGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world. 582415464
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 29/11/2025About to drive across town in a snowstorm to pick this up. Typewriter #9 for the collection, early ‘60’s Olivetti Lettera 32. Same model as the one Cormac McCarthy typed ~5 million words on. Now I can write my own Blood Meridian! That’s how this works, right? 140
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I just deadlifted 350 lbs…media.tenor.coma man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for meALT: a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me 110
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Some nice thoughts here. Of course Meselson and Stahl (my personal favorite) make an appearance, as well as Nirenberg and Matthaei and many others. If you need inspiration today to keep plugging along (which I do!), this is for you. www.asimov.press/p/beautiful-...asimov.pressWhat Makes an Experiment Beautiful?A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science. 174
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Lincoln, NE last night. 48 years old, lived my entire life in Missouri, Michigan, Colorado, and Nebraska, and that was my first time ever seeing the aurora! 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Frank likes to roll around under the ottoman, and with the color and pattern of the rug, he’s pretty effectively camouflaged… 010
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 07/11/2025My wife sent me a pic of the wiener bros and I think it would make a good album cover. Theres a vibe… 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This is the line I highlight as my favorite in all of biomedical literature when I teach DNA structure in my spring Molecular Biology course. Lol… 041
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Lucy and her mantis friend at age 5, and hissing cockroach friends at age 13… I think she may have inherited the entomologist gene from me! 030
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 23/10/2025The many faces of my little red weenie boy, George, who is 5 years old today! 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Sometimes I wonder how all the different coat colors and patterns in, say, Dachshunds came to be. Then I see posts like the one below and it’s like “oh, yeah, one popped up in a litter randomly and was selected.” To paraphrase Monod: What‘s true of Lima beans is true of wiener dogs… 091
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The person who lost control of their car and drove through my yard late Wednesday did manage to miss the 12-foot skeletons and for that, I am grateful 🙏 110
Reposted by Wayne RiekhofThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2025Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year theonion.com/third-amendment-rights… 311358119
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Wanna know how I know I’m making an impact? Anonymous students have started to tell jokes I make in class back to me on the whiteboard on my office door… 🤓 🧪 😂 030
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Kitchen smells pretty good right now. Whole house, actually! 010
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Reposting this to remind me to talk about it in class…Today was on nitrogen fixing bacteria that live in the fungus gardens of leaf cutter ants. So I guess this could be part of the microbial physiology physiology course with a strong myrmecological theme… 041
Reposted by Wayne RiekhofThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2025“Twilight Override,” the latest solo project by Jeff Tweedy, who leads the long-running band Wilco, is a triple album that earns every minute. “I just thought that it flies in the face of a culture that’s gotten faster, more surface level,” he said. nyti.ms/4ngMQgu 1849554
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Yet again, never having learned how to swim remains a net positive as far as I’m concerned. 010
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Last of the hot peppers for the season! Scotch Bonnet, Habenero, Jalapeño, and Habenada (a mutant Habenero that has a defective capsaicin biosynthetic pathway.) Turning some of these into jam shortly! 030
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I’ve told students for years now, a good term paper idea for an evolution/pop gen course or a music course (or both!) would be a thorough analysis of the claims in Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA” through the lens of genes x environment interactions. There’s a lot to mine, there. 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Guess no one in the NYT puzzle writers room has ever force-fed a mouse. Sad. 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I think D very narrowly edges out G for me, but a different day might find that switched... 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Caveat: this only works in rats that have been engineered to express a cocaine responsive ion channel in the brain. Probably not going to stop a given human from using or help someone get clean any time in the near future...but still very, very cool approach! 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Very nice writeup on someone I've admired and learned from for many years. I didn't know he had passed until catching up on This Week in Microbiology driving to campus this morning. His 1958 paper on Salmonella growth rates basically founded the formal study of microbial physiology, which... 1125
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Text from my daughter giving @lukelukeluke.bsky.social vibes 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄 😂 030
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 02/06/2025It’s a shame I can’t go back in time like 25 or 30 years and ask the yeast genome sequencing and KO collection folks to use something other than S288c derivatives & designer deletion strains. The BY474x strains suck! 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Yeah, still got it! (Doing yeast genetics with my own hands, that is.) Measuring mutagenesis efficiency by EMS in 2 S. cerevisiae wild-types, by loss of CAN1 function leading to canavanine resistant colonies. Does the BY474x background have a mismatch repair defect? 🤔 050
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 30/05/2025It’s Friday afternoon and I was working in the lab all day and my impulse control was slipping so I gave in. I finally did it. Almost felt like I didn’t have a choice… I licked a Petri dish! Stay tuned on Monday to see what grows… 👅 🧪 🦠 🤓 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Not my picture, but this lovely couple are nesting a few blocks from my house, in the woods adjacent to Holmes Lake in Lincoln. Haven't seen any juveniles yet, but here's hoping! 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I’ve been feeding the yeast inferior YPD. Found this bottle from 1992 in a retired colleague’s chemical inventory and decided to give them this well aged, vintage treat. It’s like wine, right? 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Just saw a Grackle attack and kill a House Sparrow and start eating it...or at least it seemed to be aggressively stabbing it with murderous intend and an end goal of eating it, while the sparrow fought for it's life! I'm not a birder but I was captivated! 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Big snotty colonies of an unidentified yeast-killing contaminant that I isolated to play around with. Ewwwww… 010
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I have a hunch that in 70 years, my great grandchildren will be antiquing in the West Bottoms in Kansas City and will come across a Cybertruck in the same condition as this Edsel… The Edsel actually looks cool though, so maybe not. 🤷♂️ 000
Reposted by Wayne RiekhofJosh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Happy 75th birthday to the GOAT-est GOAT that ever GOAT-ed. 🐐 935759
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I’ve gotten to “Genius” the last 2 days with no hints, so I got that going for me, which is nice. 000
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Last track meet of the season. I used to call the guy in green “mini-me” but he’s about 2” taller than me now so not quite applicable. 010
Reposted by Wayne RiekhofJulia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025On this week’s ep, Kevin Bird (@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social) explains the events of the last 3 months, how science is funded in the United States, why it is being attacked so aggressively, and the ideologies behind these attacks. Found everywhere you get podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...open.spotify.comIs science political? - with Kevin BirdTiny Living Beings · Episode 02412
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I didn’t know #worldrobberflyday was a thing but Asilidae are one of my favorite Dipterous families. Here’s one in my office! Taken September 7, 1997 in Columbia, MO. 052
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Hey, my PhD advisor just got elected to the NAS! I feel like I’m Henry in that scene in Goodfellas where Tommy is going to become a made man! Oh, wait… 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I drive by this sign twice a day and I laugh twice a day. 010
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 24/04/2025What’s our plan if federal funding for scientific research just goes away? Like, totally? Go back to the pre-Vannevar Bush days when private philanthropists like Carnegie et al. were the only source of funds? Who is that today? Do I need to take a quick ride up to Omaha to ask Uncle Warren? 🤷♂️ 020
Wayne Riekhof @wayneriekhof.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Here's the "standard" genetic code, in which 21 informational outputs (20 amino acids and a "stop" signal) are encoded by 64 3-base codons. This is only one possible encoding scheme out of many. How many are possible, though? I posed this question to my undergrad Mol Bio class today... 1/n 110