Kevin Blake PhD
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Kevin Blake PhD
@kevinsblake.bsky.social
Scientist + Writer.
It might! A key part to one theory is Fleming left a plate at room temp instead of incubating it. But why do that? Incubation affects the color of the staph colonies, which would be important for his agar art, so could be he didn’t incubate the plate because he was playing around with that.
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Read about it in my commentary with Gautam Dantas on @gardp.bsky.social and @cmicomms.bsky.social 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ecological strategies to end the war on resistance
www.sciencedirect.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🌸 First flowering plants: 1/4 down the spire
🦖 Origins of the dinosaurs: 1/2 down the spire
🐚 Cambrian explosion: Third-floor platform
🦠 First eukaryotes: Between the second and third floors
🧫 Origins of bacteria: Somewhere below the first floor
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Analogies like this can bring the 4.54 billion-year scope geological deep time, down to a more human level. Human origins might be just the "skin of paint" at the top but where does other life lie on the 1024 ft tower?
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Also, if you think this work is cool, note that it was funded by the NIH NIAID. If federal funding for scientific research is cut, there will be a lot less of this kind of work!
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This showed that each tet generation preferentially selects for specific mechanisms of resistance, and in a pattern that matches the history of drug development and mech discovery in pathogens.
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Using mixes with only one mechanism per pot, we ruled out inter-mech interactions as driving this. We also ruled out MIC alone as driving this (e.g., several DES1s had MICs higher than any RPP in gen 2 drugs).
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM