Allan Konopka
@hamatsa50.bsky.social
Recovering academic / microbial ecologist / nascent philosopher
Fluent in both academic & national lab-speak
❤️ to Think Like a Microbe
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkmicrobe
Fluent in both academic & national lab-speak
❤️ to Think Like a Microbe
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkmicrobe
Hope you don’t mind suggestion from old-school microbiologist. RE streak plate. I don’t think you are doing enough streaks in quadrants. I would do 3 quadrants with >12 streaks per quadrant to get isolated colonies
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hope you don’t mind suggestion from old-school microbiologist. RE streak plate. I don’t think you are doing enough streaks in quadrants. I would do 3 quadrants with >12 streaks per quadrant to get isolated colonies
Greg Chick posted this a few days ago
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Greg Chick posted this a few days ago
I just came across this 🧪🧫 paper over weekend
Very exciting insights -- I particularly liked this figure: type of illuminating exposition I see on @infobeautiful.bsky.social
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very exciting insights -- I particularly liked this figure: type of illuminating exposition I see on @infobeautiful.bsky.social
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I just came across this 🧪🧫 paper over weekend
Very exciting insights -- I particularly liked this figure: type of illuminating exposition I see on @infobeautiful.bsky.social
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very exciting insights -- I particularly liked this figure: type of illuminating exposition I see on @infobeautiful.bsky.social
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Be afraid ... be very afraid
June 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Be afraid ... be very afraid
June 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A Chicagoan with a dipped Italian beef sandwich would beg to differ
June 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A Chicagoan with a dipped Italian beef sandwich would beg to differ
June 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Important to note intl’s are skewed towards grad students (who in STEM fields may not be paying tuition (as TAs or RAs))
May 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Important to note intl’s are skewed towards grad students (who in STEM fields may not be paying tuition (as TAs or RAs))
Today's rabbit hole after a duel with a Trumpster/RFK guy on health care.
Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases
Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.
Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases
Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.
May 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today's rabbit hole after a duel with a Trumpster/RFK guy on health care.
Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases
Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.
Poverty = no insurance / access = no prenatal care / regular screenings = infant mortality / chronic diseases
Oh, and opioid addiction (20% of deaths 25-34 yo) + guns for 15-34 yo.
I mean, if he was going on about *terroir* theory, I'd have his back
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I mean, if he was going on about *terroir* theory, I'd have his back
Cascadia: Go big or go home
[although I'd avoid E WA and OR]
[although I'd avoid E WA and OR]
April 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Cascadia: Go big or go home
[although I'd avoid E WA and OR]
[although I'd avoid E WA and OR]
@lukeepplin.bsky.social — it turns out I’ll have 5 h in central Santiago, Chile tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to spend this minimal time?
Also, a wall poster seen in Castro
Also, a wall poster seen in Castro
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@lukeepplin.bsky.social — it turns out I’ll have 5 h in central Santiago, Chile tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to spend this minimal time?
Also, a wall poster seen in Castro
Also, a wall poster seen in Castro
March 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Less sophisticated than Jensen's analysis (just used WoS) but % all 'bacterial/microbial' papers by year
March 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Less sophisticated than Jensen's analysis (just used WoS) but % all 'bacterial/microbial' papers by year
🧫🧪 "Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature,
leaving most species unstudied."
'Model' gram - and gram + (Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtitles) + human pathogens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
leaving most species unstudied."
'Model' gram - and gram + (Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtitles) + human pathogens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🧫🧪 "Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature,
leaving most species unstudied."
'Model' gram - and gram + (Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtitles) + human pathogens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
leaving most species unstudied."
'Model' gram - and gram + (Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtitles) + human pathogens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The clowns on social media and ESPN talking about how great the 3 fist fights instigated by US players in first minute of game were tonight should reflect on the life-altering harm that fights can produce in pro athletes
February 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The clowns on social media and ESPN talking about how great the 3 fist fights instigated by US players in first minute of game were tonight should reflect on the life-altering harm that fights can produce in pro athletes
The Catlin Coast (somewhat S from Dunedin) is quite spectacular
February 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The Catlin Coast (somewhat S from Dunedin) is quite spectacular
Air Quality measure in early 20th C
🧫🧪 #history #QuestionTime
FYI @markowenmartin.bsky.social
From 1905 in the UK ...
🧫🧪 #history #QuestionTime
FYI @markowenmartin.bsky.social
From 1905 in the UK ...
February 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Air Quality measure in early 20th C
🧫🧪 #history #QuestionTime
FYI @markowenmartin.bsky.social
From 1905 in the UK ...
🧫🧪 #history #QuestionTime
FYI @markowenmartin.bsky.social
From 1905 in the UK ...
Welp, it is turning out to be a banner year ...
ILI = influenza-like illness
ILI = influenza-like illness
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Welp, it is turning out to be a banner year ...
ILI = influenza-like illness
ILI = influenza-like illness
@billfarleyphd.bsky.social I imagine that you are already on this but ICYMI ... Cal AD annual report with kind of obscured financials on last page
www.calathleticsfund.com/_files/ugd/9...
www.calathleticsfund.com/_files/ugd/9...
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@billfarleyphd.bsky.social I imagine that you are already on this but ICYMI ... Cal AD annual report with kind of obscured financials on last page
www.calathleticsfund.com/_files/ugd/9...
www.calathleticsfund.com/_files/ugd/9...