Allan Konopka

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@jcsmoot.bsky.social
FAMEs!! This should have been a Findlay lab study
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

I started reading bits of your Wordpress. Rock on!

Oooof …. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius?
Better shot at being monophyletic as a consequence of strong purifying selection?

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Ecological Consequences of Iron Scarcity Gold is for the mistress, silver for the maid, copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade, ‘Good’ said the Baron, sitting in his hall, ‘but iron — cold iron — is master of them all’.

New on Think Like a Microbe ... Iron!
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Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud

@elisabethbik.bsky.social
Does the rapid rise of AI in images complicate sleuthing?
I am stunned how seamlessly I can remove objects in my art photographs

www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

Dashun Wang has done a lot of interesting stuff in this area
www.dashunwang.com/book/the-sci...

From 0.09% to 0.18%
Tabloid journalism at NYT

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

NB this is 🏈 only. The ‘profit’ goes to support other parts of Athletics Dept

Greg Chick posted this a few days ago

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?

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

"Liberals hurl insults and demonize"

Ummm ... anyone listen to POTUS speak for more than 3 minutes???

Obfuscation is a feature not a bug …

Positive Microbiology in the Movies How ‘Positive Microbiology’ is portrayed in commercial movies and its potential as a tool for education and engaging general audiences to counteract germaphobia. Image done with freepik.

@markowenmartin.bsky.social
Dude, this is so up your alley

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Two games a week apart: +/- 3 h = a 4% difference in rest time

Darwin’s principle of natural selection operating on the progeny due to poor ‘fitness’ of the parents.

And then there was Dick Butkus to the southeast at Chicago Vocational

Might be a bit before your time but … on cross country flight I watched Becoming Led Zeppelin— a very interesting documentary on their roots

At the interface between Microbial Ecology and Evolutionary Biology I began with the idea I would write this great piece that illuminated the interface between microbial ecology and evolution, as one where Darwin’s concepts of evolution via natural selection could be ...

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Thank you!!!

Because I am lazy …
Can you provide citation to higher mutation rate at low cell density?
Intrigued by ecological implications of this

Yeah, just checked Tuscaloosa weather.
Mid90s all week with ~50% humidity

@nkalamb.bsky.social
@derekcrim.bsky.social

ICYMI …
At Alabama, HC Kalen DeBoer deliberately started practice 90 minutes late ... "We actually had it originally scheduled earlier, moved it back just to get a little more heat. It's good for us. We even conditioned at the end, did some extra work”

Also some great HS 🏀 teams back in the day — Doc Rivers, Jim Brewer etc

I hear you, but still think MAGA/MAHA tops it as a scam

I've always felt that paper represented a 'natural experiment' about evolution in bacteria

As it is near the start of the new academic year ... strike that, college football season, I sat down and read your book.

Really enjoyed it -- particularly the shout-out to Proviso East High School (I grew up a few miles away)