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Wayne Riekhof

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Biochemist pretending real hard that I’m a microbiologist, when I actually wish I was an entomologist. I research, teach, and serve at Cornhusker U. GBR!

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Spell-check, y'all. "Protien" and "Altenretively" are kinda distracting from your message 😬

20.02.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Same vibe…

21.12.2025 15:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A blue Smith-Corona electric typewriter from circa 1970 sits on the uncommonly tidy desk of a middle-aged midwestern biology professor.

A blue Smith-Corona electric typewriter from circa 1970 sits on the uncommonly tidy desk of a middle-aged midwestern biology professor.

I still keep one in my office!

18.12.2025 01:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jill wondered if maybe it’s a picture book 🤷‍♂️😬😂

16.12.2025 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely! I am working on getting the ms in final form for BioRxiv and then (probably) JBC, hopefully by early January. I’ll be in touch 👍🏻

16.12.2025 02:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Did my semi-annual perusal of my Facebook feed and saw an ad for books from Springer.

One of these is not like the others…

16.12.2025 02:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We just pulled Vps13 out of a screen for strains defective in retrograde PM to ER lyso-PC transport! So very apropos at the moment. Super interesting structure in general too, looks like a lipid slip n’ slide!

16.12.2025 01:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nebraska and Iowa are both EPSCoR and INBRe states so…isn’t that already factored in? We already get a little bump relative to population size so 🤷‍♂️

09.12.2025 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I thought and thought, how do I know that name? Former student? Social media? 🤔

So I searched on here, and wouldn’t you know!?!? I knew I’d seen that name. And we don’t know each other at all, either, but that just makes it more surprising how small the world can be!

09.12.2025 04:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One 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

09.12.2025 04:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I 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.

06.12.2025 00:59 👍 2434 🔁 468 💬 58 📌 12
A visual chemistry pun in which the letters “PhD” are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a benzene ring, and another with crude drawings of garments one might wear on one’s lower half are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a separate benzene ring.

A visual chemistry pun in which the letters “PhD” are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a benzene ring, and another with crude drawings of garments one might wear on one’s lower half are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a separate benzene ring.

Get it?

04.12.2025 17:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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About 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?

29.11.2025 15:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america ' ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

Obligatory…

26.11.2025 23:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me ALT: a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me

I just deadlifted 350 lbs…

26.11.2025 23:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ASBMB must have cringed at a later date and taken that down since it now 404’s. But yeah that was a doozie.

24.11.2025 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bakin’ bacon…

15.11.2025 14:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Makes an Experiment Beautiful? A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science.

Some 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-...

13.11.2025 20:46 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Lincoln, 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!

12.11.2025 16:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Frank likes to roll around under the ottoman, and with the color and pattern of the rug, he’s pretty effectively camouflaged…

10.11.2025 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two wiener dogs sitting in a chair, looking charismatic

Two wiener dogs sitting in a chair, looking charismatic

A headshot of Wham from the late 80’s

A headshot of Wham from the late 80’s

My wife sent me a pic of the wiener bros and I think it would make a good album cover. Theres a vibe…

07.11.2025 03:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This 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…

03.11.2025 14:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Lucy 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!

27.10.2025 22:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The many faces of my little red weenie boy, George, who is 5 years old today!

23.10.2025 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes 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…

16.10.2025 23:49 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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No harm other than a strip of sod torn out, but the chunks of wheel and body panel they left in the yard after fleeing on the rim…well, we’re glad no one was hurt 😬

11.10.2025 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The 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 🙏

11.10.2025 13:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

George Beadle is kneeling with the dog. This was just before he went to work with Ed Tatum. Charles Burnham is top left, went on to U of Minnesota and worked on cereal breeding of various sorts.

11.10.2025 00:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Don’t forget George Beadle and the dog (whose name I used to know but have forgotten)

11.10.2025 00:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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