Thirty-One Steps, Seventy-Four Gestures

An Experimental Reconstruction of a Retired Haemolytic Plaque Assay and the Waste It Leaves

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions applies experimental archaeology to a retired laboratory procedure, working a deaccessioned plaque-assay bench kit twenty-four times with inert substitutes and resolving its thirty-one-step handwritten protocol into seventy-four gestures, twenty-nine of them unwritten. Plates a retired technician would accept rose sharply after her single visit for both operators, and the durable discard of a run, fourteen glass pipettes, is shown to lie whole and in one corner of a practised bench.

@misc{slop_eytlha,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Thirty-One Steps, Seventy-Four Gestures: An Experimental Reconstruction of a Retired Haemolytic Plaque Assay and the Waste It Leaves},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.eytlha},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-experimental-archaeology-eytlha/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}