Allan Konopka
hamatsa50.bsky.social
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
Source: New York Times
Conclusion: WAG -- their credibility has tanked over the past 10 years.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Looks great — can’t wait to read it!
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This comment comes from significantly outside my expertise ... but curious re: how it branches vs. other Halococcus using a Halobacterium sequence as an outgroup vis a vis novel genus
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Looks to me like packets of 8?
Is there support for this as novel genus?
Halosarcina

“Latin word "sarcina," meaning pack or bundle, after the cuboidal (2x2x2) cellular associations they form during division along three plane”
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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
I started reading bits of your Wordpress. Rock on!
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Oooof …. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius?
Better shot at being monophyletic as a consequence of strong purifying selection?
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Dashun Wang has done a lot of interesting stuff in this area
www.dashunwang.com/book/the-sci...
Book: The Science of Science — Dashun Wang
www.dashunwang.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
NB this is 🏈 only. The ‘profit’ goes to support other parts of Athletics Dept
October 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Greg Chick posted this a few days ago
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'll confess to knee-jerk response when admin costs are 50% (eg charities)
Do ADs (anyone?) understand NIL -- not supposed to be pay for play but everyone knows it is pay for play. Are the NIL firms just laundering the $?
Will the system totally change again in 2 years to reconcile the hypocrisy?
September 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So … Blueprint will be soliciting NIL funds ‘to help the student-athlete [sic]’ but I imagine not letting the donors know they’re pocketing 50% for themselves
September 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"Liberals hurl insults and demonize"

Ummm ... anyone listen to POTUS speak for more than 3 minutes???
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Obfuscation is a feature not a bug …
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM