This was the ninth Worm Show to take place at an International Meeting. Links to all the shows can be found here. Below are other comments and trivia on the 2025 show.

• This was the first in-person worm show at an International Meeting that was not at Royce Hall at UCLA. Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center, UC Davis, is very similar in size and capacity to Royce Hall, and it felt very familiar. Comments about the weather reflected the daily highs of some 96F (36C).
• The first video made was the parody of the Proclaimers' 1988 song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)." Morris sang the vocals to a karaoke track. Much of the video was generated by Sora. When there was talk of a possible show in 2023 for the meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, this song would have fit well because the Proclaimers (identical twins Craig and Charlie Reid) are from Leith, in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. The song was edited to help keep the show shorter.
• At 42m40s, this was the shortest Worm Show (of the International Worm Meeting shows) since the first one in 2005. All the others were longer by at least a few minutes. Those from 2009-2021 were over 60 minutes. We were asked to make it shorter because of the timing of the party right afterwards. We kept everything we originally wanted but cut our original draft script down.
• The book chapter that mentions the Worm Show is available here.
• The Worm Breeder's Gazette is no longer being published. In 2005 it was on a hiatus, so it is not really correct to state that it was a venue for articles at that time.
• The Google Street View at 6:38 is in fact an image of Morris in his 2001 Subaru Forester. And as of summer 2025 he still does drive it to work.
• The reference to the 2007 show about the microRNA Nobel Prize is modified. Originally only Gary Ruvkun was predicted to be the recipient at the time.
• Many images for the show were generated by Sora. This was with a basic OpenAI account ($20/month at the time). Using such an image generator was a game changer when making content for the show as it saved a considerable amount of time.
• Interview videos were made using an SM58 microphone connected to a Canon R6mkII mirrorless camera equipped with an EF 24-70mm f/4 lens.
• The post shown just after the 'Star Wars' opening was shown only briefly in the video. It is below.
  
• Windows 10 was supposed to reach end of support in October, 2025 as indicated.
• As of July, 2025 it was possible to purchase a 'Wood Wand Worm Pick' from picodna (here).
• Pedro Moreira presented two posters side by side (17:24).
• The additional AI Worm Art images are below. These were easy to generate. We cut the images down to just three to keep the show shorter.
  
• It has always bothered us that GLP-1 is both 'germline proliferation-1' in the C. elegans field, and glucagon-like peptide-1 elsewhere.
• When Gary Ruvkun mentioned selfies, MM immediately thought of asking for one to end his interview segment. The sound of the 'camera shutter' was added.
  
• 35:07 - FlyTP was obviously AI generated, and you can see that the flies have only one wing.
• 35:30 - The 'Euphemisms' bit was directly inspired by 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.'
• 36:30 - The Suppressitol Ad was inspired by typical drug commercials, added to the stress that many junior assistant professors must be feeling at the time the show was being assembled. The name was derived from a bit by Jerry Seinfeld where he refers to a fictitious drug as 'Cramitol.' The music at the beginning is O Fortuna by Carl Orff and at the end is Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg. The video of the storm, meadow and box of pills at the very end were obviously AI-made. In the case of the latter video, it took more than 10 attempts to get the AI to properly spell Suppressitol. A similar mistake occurred with the DOGE-coin-derived image at the front of the show that misspells 'Stupidity' with two p's, but it made sense to leave it in.
• We only had sing-alongs a couple times before, with 'Take Me Out to the Worm Lab' and 'This Worm is Your Worm'. The idea of a sing-along was something that Morris saw The Edge from U2 do at two stadium concerts in their PopMart tour in 1997. The songs were "Daydream Believer" by The Monkees and "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond. Obviously the latter inspired the song at the end of this show. The reprise of the chorus was trimmed off the end of the song to keep it shorter.
• The symmetrical arrangement of the groups we recorded at one of the poster sessions was fortuitous. In both there is a taller fellow (Jim Lissemore in one, Greg Hermann in the other), even wearing a baseball cap, in mirrored positions! Some of you may know that Jim was wearing a prior meeting shirt formerly owned by the late Andy Golden. This video thus becomes a hidden tribute to Andy.
  
• Speaking of the sing-along, several people told us afterwards that they found themselves unexpectedly moved by it. Maybe it was just the exuberance of the crowd, or the feeling of sheer ebullience that can happen when people share this kind of experience. It could also be the song itself. It builds to the chorus through a slow ascending progression of notes, making the chorus kind of cathartic. There is no song like this one, sung at sporting events and other venues in America and Europe for decades. This article has some insights of the song's structure, that it "features all the hallmarks of the best crowd pleasers: a wordless call and response in the descending brass section on the chorus, a pre-chorus that demands shaky hands to slowly lift upwards as it crescendos, and saccharine, optimistic lyrics that cry out to be mindlessly screamed arm in arm with a stranger."
• We owe a debt to those who managed the house during the show. There is Dale Proctor (below right) who directed the crew. He was extremely helpful in providing connections for recording directly from the house audio and the laptop running the show. Also shown below left is Ezekiel who ran the control board.
  
• A number of folks saw us working on the script in the lobby of the Hyatt Place near the Mondavi Center, only hours before the show.
  

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