Alexis W
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Alexis W
@alexiswe.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Hammarlund lab. C. elegans neurobiology, transcriptomics...
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They were circulated that way at the time, as a 3-paper bound reprint. They also have a collective title (frequently mistaken - including on the Nature website - as the title of the W&C paper): Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
OopsA was predestined
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
There are a few limitations. Of course the sample size. Also, when 2 researchers works in the same team, does it count as 2 separate labs? I saw both cases in the list, so we're either under- or over-counting depending on the definition of "lab".
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So applying the proportions to the full list (1,681 labs), that would give us 224 inactive labs, 958 active (primary) C. elegans labs, or 1,177 labs if we include "worms along with other models".
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November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
...not really C. elegans labs. Out of the 26 still active labs, I counted 17 as primary worm labs (57% of 30), 4 as using worms along with other models (13%), and 5 as not worm labs (17%).
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November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Right. I thought about using the website URLs, but many of the links are dead, even for labs still active. So instead I took a sample of 30 and looked them up (quickly, may have made some mistakes)

Out of 30, 4 are no longer active (13%). One other problem: many labs are listed, but...
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Wormbase lists 1,682: wormbase.org/resources/la...

I guess it's only labs that have officially named strains, and it seems to contain some no longer active labs.
wormbase.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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From the lab of Maxwell Heiman discussing the interesting topic of apical ECM and the function of sensing organs and how these ECM proteins can both mechanically and biochemically modulate the organ's functions.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And there are ways to cheat: www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com?source=Data+...
So turns out there are 10 separate paths with only 2 degrees between Data Science and Philosophy. And even Colossal Biosciences has 2 paths with 2 degrees (via S. Matthew Liao or via Conservation Biology)
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.
www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There was this game we used to play, where taking two random articles, the shortest path wins. If I remember well it was often possible in 6 steps or less, so this is not unique to Philosophy!
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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2. Map of <some far away country/city> generated with the same prompt.
Try and discuss how accurate it is - this is hard because we're unfamiliar with the (literal) territory. 😶‍🌫️

3. "When you hand in work done with an LLM, imagine when *I* (expert) are that *you* (novice) don't." 🤨
October 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM