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
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
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Mind blown! 🤯
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
#Academia is essentially, repeatedly adding the same information in to a range of different forms on a daily basis
This is excellent from @roysleator.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Recently back from an amazing #Herping trip to #Albania and managed to see Europes smallest and rarest Viper - the Greek Meadow Viper (Vipera graeca), lots of careful searching at 1900 metres resulted in finding a beautiful, sub-adult female
wow- The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social
Evolution of genome-wide barriers to gene flow during complex speciation in rattlesnakes - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@countryman100.bsky.social rooting for you guys tonight!
Island-Hopping Frogs: How Geology, Ocean Currents and Evolution Shaped Biodiversity in the Pacific www.linnean.org/news/2026/04...
This is cool - ‘Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space’ - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... & a great commentary piece too- ‘Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸
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...
