Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
@paulhoskisson.bsky.social
Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
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Attention #sciart people! The ASM agar art contest is open. Deadline is October 21 🧪🧫
ASM Agar Art Contest | Contest Details
Have you ever seen art created in a petri dish using living, growing microorganisms? That's agar art! ASM's annual Agar Art Contest is a chance for you to use science to show off your creative skills.
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September 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Attention #sciart people! The ASM agar art contest is open. Deadline is October 21 🧪🧫
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating stuff - Acquisition and erosion of toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial chromosomes academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Acquisition and erosion of toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial chromosomes
Abstract. Toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are widespread in bacterial genomes. Yet, their integration, persistence, and impact in chromosome dynamics remain
academic.oup.com
September 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Fascinating stuff - Acquisition and erosion of toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial chromosomes academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
Really important from @ellinoralseth.bsky.social & @brownlab.bsky.social - a framework for defense as an evolved adaptation, in a world where ‘defense’ & ‘immune’ are often used to mean anti-infection
The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
Recent years have witnessed a rapid expansion in bacterial defense mechanisms. Alongside
established defenses against molecular parasites, hundreds of novel mechanisms are
being described annually, co...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Really important from @ellinoralseth.bsky.social & @brownlab.bsky.social - a framework for defense as an evolved adaptation, in a world where ‘defense’ & ‘immune’ are often used to mean anti-infection
The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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...
September 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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...
Great collection in Essays Biochem on the social lives of bacteria - put together by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social & @rachelwheatley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1042/EBC2...
happy to contribute with ‘Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in #Streptomyces’
doi.org/10.1042/EBC20250034
happy to contribute with ‘Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in #Streptomyces’
doi.org/10.1042/EBC20250034
A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on the social lives of bacteria
Abstract. The study of bacterial sociality, understanding when and how bacteria interact and the consequences of those interactions, has rapidly grown in popularity over the last 20 years. This has re...
portlandpress.com
September 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Great collection in Essays Biochem on the social lives of bacteria - put together by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social & @rachelwheatley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1042/EBC2...
happy to contribute with ‘Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in #Streptomyces’
doi.org/10.1042/EBC20250034
happy to contribute with ‘Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in #Streptomyces’
doi.org/10.1042/EBC20250034
Super collection of essays here in ‘Essays in Biochemistry’ @biochemsoc.bsky.social focussed on Bacterial Biosynthetic Gene Clusters - lots of interesting perspectives portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... all pulled together by @evodivmet.bsky.social
Volume 70 Issue 2 | Essays in Biochemistry | Portland Press
Essays in Biochemistry publishes short, digestible reviews from experts highlighting recent key topics in biochemistry and the molecular biosciences. Written to be accessible for those not yet immerse...
portlandpress.com
August 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Super collection of essays here in ‘Essays in Biochemistry’ @biochemsoc.bsky.social focussed on Bacterial Biosynthetic Gene Clusters - lots of interesting perspectives portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... all pulled together by @evodivmet.bsky.social
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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
evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
August 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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
evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
This is super cool from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social & @danielbolnick.bsky.social et al
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback | The American Naturalist: Vol 208, No 3
AbstractHost-parasite interactions are likely to involve eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Parasites
can impose strong selection on host immune traits. Evolution of these traits can suppress
parasite abunda...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is super cool from @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social & @danielbolnick.bsky.social et al
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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...
www.pnas.org
August 24, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition www.cell.com/current-biol...
A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition
The hyphae-to-yeast morphological transition promotes dissemination of the pathogen
Candida albicans, but the mechanisms underlying this process are poorly defined. By
identifying a bacterial metaboli...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:18 AM
A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition www.cell.com/current-biol...
Beautiful work from @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social et al Genome-wide barriers to gene flow reveal the genetic basis of viviparity evolution in a lizard www.cell.com/current-biol...
Genome-wide barriers to gene flow reveal the genetic basis of viviparity evolution in a lizard
Xie et al. resolve the complex and dynamic evolutionary history of viviparity emergence
in an amniote, the common lizard. They demonstrate a key involvement of gene regulatory
regions, found genome wi...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Beautiful work from @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social et al Genome-wide barriers to gene flow reveal the genetic basis of viviparity evolution in a lizard www.cell.com/current-biol...
Couple of gorgeous Adders (Vipera berus) from this mornings walk - always a joy to see these
August 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Couple of gorgeous Adders (Vipera berus) from this mornings walk - always a joy to see these
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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
July 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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
really lovely piece of work from @raufs.bsky.social et al.,
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature Microbiology
The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
really lovely piece of work from @raufs.bsky.social et al.,
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this is very cool - Chemical ecology and convergent evolution of natural hallucinogens: From ecological defense to conserved neural targets www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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...
www.pnas.org
June 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
this is very cool - Chemical ecology and convergent evolution of natural hallucinogens: From ecological defense to conserved neural targets www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cool new preprint of a new defence family!
Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
June 29, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Cool new preprint of a new defence family!
Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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
Programs: www.M2P2.org
www.dartmouthbiofilm.org
Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637
June 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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
Programs: www.M2P2.org
www.dartmouthbiofilm.org
Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637
First ‘Charles Darwin’ Rose of the year has opened in the garden!
June 23, 2026 at 8:13 AM
First ‘Charles Darwin’ Rose of the year has opened in the garden!
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New research from #BiologyLetters: Song but not colour divergence constrains hybridization in birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Evolution #Birdsong #Colouration
June 23, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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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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
June 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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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In the future, everybody will be Prime Minister for 15 minutes
— Andy Narwhal
— Andy Narwhal
June 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
In the future, everybody will be Prime Minister for 15 minutes
— Andy Narwhal
— Andy Narwhal
This is an awesome review from @sheppardlab.bsky.social - Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics
Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...
www.nature.com
June 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM
This is an awesome review from @sheppardlab.bsky.social - Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’m honored to receive this year’s Hamilton Award at Evolution!
It was such a privilege to be surrounded by so many outstanding scientists doing such incredible work!
It was such a privilege to be surrounded by so many outstanding scientists doing such incredible work!
Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Princeton Vaughn!
@princetonvaughn.bsky.social
www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
@princetonvaughn.bsky.social
www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
June 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I’m honored to receive this year’s Hamilton Award at Evolution!
It was such a privilege to be surrounded by so many outstanding scientists doing such incredible work!
It was such a privilege to be surrounded by so many outstanding scientists doing such incredible work!