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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2d

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology

The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

www.evolbio.mpg.de

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 3d

Please pass on my condolences to Saskia

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 5d

‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands - well done @naturalis.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands

The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era

www.science.org

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 5d

Wow - this is awesome!!

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Apr 3

Our new preprint by @nanamikubota.bsky.social shows that P. aeruginosa, and likely many other bacteria carrying filamentous prophages (like V. parahaemolyticus), risk being exploited by these phages in a runaway process that reduces fitness of both host and virus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness

Many bacteria carry phage genome(s) in their chromosome (i.e., prophage), and this intertwines the fitness of the bacterium and the phage. Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains carry filamentous phages ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Arianne Babina @ariannebabina.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for a #PhD with @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and me on all things #Streptomyces, #evolution, #AMR, #antibiotics, #biotech!

Deadline 21st November. #MicroSky please share!

Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 6d

Today was the first day of life after my @raeng.org.uk Research Chair - the award was transformative to me and our team and I’ll be forever grateful to the Academy for supporting our science and vision of how it was time for synthetic biology and engineering biology to deliver for industry

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 22d

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

www.gla.ac.uk

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 20d

This is super cool from @brianhie.bsky.social et al-
Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models

Many important biological functions arise not from single genes, but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing biol...

www.biorxiv.org

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 23d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘You’re going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla’: Bangkok reckons with a giant lizard boom

Viral videos have shifted public opinion about water monitors, long held in contempt in Thai culture, even as rising numbers of the reptiles pose problems for residents

www.theguardian.com

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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · Sep 6

Some good stuff in here 😊

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Sep 5

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Maggie!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted to have been selected as a Sub-panel member (Assessment phase) for Sub-panel 5: Biological sciences for REF2029 #REF2029

ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social · Sep 4

The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

Expert panels appointed for REF 2029 – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social · Sep 4

The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

Expert panels appointed for REF 2029 – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social · Sep 4

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Pause to REF 2029 criteria setting and publication of final guidance – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Sep 1

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?

Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Genomic resistance in historical clinical isolates increased in frequency and mobility after the age of antibiotics

Antibiotic resistance is frequently observed shortly after the clinical introduction of an antibiotic. Whether and how frequently that resistance occurred before the introduction is harder to determin...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yeah, we have a bunch of sequencing data - on the populations and individual isolates - but it became too complex to try and write a paper that allowed all to be included…I think this experiment will see me through to retirement…

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks Vaughn - some cool parallels with some of your work with Rich, but also some interesting stuff around antibiotic production and development…hope you like it!

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Aug 25

It has been a monumental effort from John @siljavahtokari.bsky.social & Leena - but also a lot of fun

Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re really pleased to share this - it’s been a long time in the making due to the slow growth of #Streptomyces - but it is just the beginning of this story and we have some exciting future stories coming from this work in #ExperimentalEvolution