@victor-matheson.bsky.social @jcbradbury.com Gents, loved your presentation with Portland council members. Victor, particularly loved your shout-outs to MLS/NWSL Keep up the great work!!
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
@markowenmartin.bsky.social This has 'you' all over it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces
Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species
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US Dept Energy recently announced first funded projects for Genesis Mission (AI integration) -- here are some related to #microbial #ecology [yes, I used AI to pluck these from the announcement] 🧪🧫.
@mattbrown.bsky.social I am deeply disappointed that you provided a forum for Kyle McMillen to tout AD 'economic benefits'. The consensus among sports economists is that these are wildly exaggerated and not credible. I hope you will give a for-real sports economist an opportunity to rebut this.
I am thinking of doing next Think Like a Microbe blog on zoonoses. Reading a 2025 NAS report on "Preventing Patient Zero" which has been perfunctory so far but this was very cool ... by Erik Karlsson, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, @eakarlsson.bsky.social 🧪🧫
Just up on Think Like a Microbe -- a sequel to my last post on AI in Biology 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...
What prompted me to look into AI?
Widgets, Hallucinations, Vibe-coding, Oh My!
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Join us for an exciting #AGU2026 session that integrates microbial trait inference, trait-based biogeochemical modeling, and the application of machine learning to link microbial genomics to elemental cycling across any Earth system environment. Submit by August 5th: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
From Genomes to Biogeochemical Function: Novel Approaches for Decoding and Representing Microbiome Traits in the Earth System
Microbiomes drive biogeochemical cycling across Earth's critical zones (soils, oceans, rivers, sediments, deep subsurface), yet our ability to translate genomic data into the ecologically and biogeoch...
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New on Think Like a Microbe -- I dip my toe (hesitatingly) into A.I. open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...
Ay! Ay! Ay! A.I.
AI in Biology/Microbial Ecology
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TIL ... there is a lot of salty inland water in the world 🧪#limnology Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach www.nature.com/articles/nco...
Just up on Think Like a Microbe -- slacker culture in microbes: an under-appreciated life style 🧪🧫 #philsci open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...
On microbial dormancy and resuscitation
~25% of world's human population contain latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells in lung granulomas
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Mirror, mirror on the wall … Who is the crookedest and stupidest of all?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoWOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
To celebrate an improbable seventh game between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Boston Celtics, I'm doing a contest across my social media platforms. Follow and retweet to have a chance to get a copy of “Moses and the Doctor” along with the Dr J and Moses cards we made for the publication.
I came upon this 2024 open-access book by the estimable W Ford Doolittle -- Darwinizing Gaia: Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... Looks fascinating: an esteemed molecular biologist who has invested time in understanding philosophy 🧪🧫 #philsci
On schedule now for #MattersMicrobial: podcast releases every other Tuesday. This week, Dr. Nahui Medina-Chavez (of the Michael Travisano lab) joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss halophilic archaea and evolution in the lab. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?? youtu.be/oz04oGDiRY0?...
👀 🧪 My only question is whether this project was designed during a lab coffee break
New on Think Like a Microbe 🧪🧫 #philsci Science's Social Contract Where does it stand in 2026? open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic...
This is impressive 🧪🧫 work both conceptually and technologically Reprogrammed SimCells for antimicrobial therapy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microbes inhibiting viruses? Mosquitoes with Wolbachia symbionts don't replicate dengue virus -- and have been used for biocontrol!! 🧪🧫 Long-Term Durability and Public Health Impact of City-Wide wMel Wolbachia Mosquito Releases ... During a Dengue Epidemic Surge www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/10...
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@lukeepplin.bsky.social Page 63, man — c’mon … a Star Wars reference ? [thoroughly enjoying the book so far!]
Nerd time! :) I mapped every 4-year college in U.S. higher education along two dimensions (institutional resilience & post-college market position) using federal data plus a novel measure of institutional AI exposure I created. Institution search on the front page! kylesaunders.com/university-m...
Mapping the Structural Divide
1,556 U.S. colleges and universities mapped on Institutional Resilience, Post-College Market Position, and AI Exposure.
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I happened to come across an interview of Katalin Karikó from 2024 that was very good. IMO here is the money line re how the 'business' of science works
Too long has gone by ... finally time for another edition of Think Like a Microbe open.substack.com/pub/thinkmic... 🧪🧫 #philsci
Mechanisms as explanations in biology and ecology
Mechanicism, / machine mechanisms / causal mechanisms
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Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠
Significant pearl-clutching here. But perhaps it is just that modern technologies have made it tractable to study phenomena in organisms of most direct interest! 🧪🧫 Research on fruit flies and other ‘model’ organisms may be declining | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Research on fruit flies and other ‘model’ organisms may be declining
Analysis of published papers on eight widely studied species suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried
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Nice analysis here - TL;DR ... it's not a cliff, it's a steep hill #HigherEd open.substack.com/pub/findinge...
A Look at the Enrollment Cliff
What is Coming and How Badly will it Hurt?
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Another great piece by Card Catalog -- most practicing scientists know this, but might be a useful primer for science undergraduate or even graduate students? 🧪 #philsci substack.com/inbox/post/1...
27 Ways to Access Scientific Research
A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings.
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TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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