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Gemma Murray @gemmamurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m hiring two postdocs to join my group at UCL, both funded for 3 years, to investigate how commensal bacteria contribute to the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens. Please share! Links below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU266/r... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU268/r...

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fantastic talk today from @paulhoskisson.bsky.social at our UoM Ecology and Evolution Seminar - all about Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production! 🧬🦠 Such cool work!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Off to University of Manchester and excited to talk to members of @mermanchester.bsky.social, give a seminar, and catch up with friends, collaborators and new people to meet up and discover more about the cool science they do

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

really cool work from @lore-fermar.bsky.social et al Differential restructuring of a complex compost microbiome by metabolically distinct #Streptomyces through community-dependent microbial interactions eprints.gla.ac.uk/396050/1/396...

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Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📣 New preprint: We looked at population survival and recovery of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius at near-boiling temperatures—conditions that occur in its environmental niche. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not read this in detail yet…but looks interesting and thought provoking….will it help or add fuel to fires on discussions around lab releases of organisms? Language-Model-Based Detection of Genetic Editing in Bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Language-Model-Based Detection of Genetic Editing in Bacteria

Recent advances in genome editing allow easy genetic manipulation of bacteria, providing them with new traits, some of which could be hazardous, e.g. enhanced virulence or extended resistance to antib...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hot off the preprint: visual adaptations in crater-lake #cichlids revealed by single-cell RNA-seq of the retina. Deep-water species have mainly green cones that however differ from both green and red cones of the shallow-water species. Quite unexpected in such young adaptive radiation!😍

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences" elifesciences.org/articles/112... @zdblount.bsky.social shared this thought-provoking paper with the lab group.

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Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences

Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sent! All good here, hope you guys are well? Must catch up soon! X

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wow, this is getting fascinating with these NADases - seems pretty widespread - three BioRxivs on this exciting antiviral system in a matter of months from the Ibarra-Chavez lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and Tagliabracci lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family

Many bacterial anti-phage defence systems are encoded by mobile genetic elements, yet much of this antiviral repertoire remains undiscovered. Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids are well known for disse...

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Kathryn R Elmer @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have a ca 1.5 yr postdoc available in our team, asking, 'what is the shape of the fitness landscape between oviparity and viviparity?' and 'what drives viviparity to evolve'? 🧬 using 🦎 as a model. closes 16 Sept. Details on EvolDir evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really cool paper from @sheppardlab.bsky.social et al Accelerating Campylobacter zoonosis in the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and I was delighted to be invited to write a commentary about this lovely work too www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

awww sorry Kathryn! its super work….fascinating stuff!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We should plan a day at the cricket next season!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🤣 - in proper Cricket, Lancs beat Somerset in Taunton, which is unheard of!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

All good matey, been a crazy busy time…see you in October, or hopefully before if you’re up this way?

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy birthday to you too @drgvank.bsky.social - hope you’ve had a good day? P x

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Couple of gorgeous Adders (Vipera berus) from this mornings walk - always a joy to see these

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Shu-Sin Chng @figlegend.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Intense week of science at Bacterial Cell Surfaces GRC! Best part was catching up with old/new friends! Tagging peeps in pics @paulhoskisson.bsky.social @hendersonlab.bsky.social @namurxa.bsky.social @sujeetkumar.bsky.social @weeboont.bsky.social @yeowjiang.bsky.social @siegristpalmore.bsky.social

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

First ‘Charles Darwin’ Rose of the year has opened in the garden!

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/06/2026

New research from #BiologyLetters: Song but not colour divergence constrains hybridization in birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Evolution #Birdsong #Colouration

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 15/06/2026

A type of natural selection known as negative frequency dependent selection is thought to be a major force promoting genetic diversity in important traits. Read research in a new issue of #PhilTransB: buff.ly/bOhpNlE

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In the future, everybody will be Prime Minister for 15 minutes — Andy Narwhal

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