Check out our newest issue where we interview @juliesemmelhack.bsky.social, who studies the neural circuits of visual behavior at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🦇CARNIVOROUS BAT RIVALS BIG CATS 🦁 IN HUNTING ABILITY Researchers from our lab incl. Leonie Baier & @laurastidsholt.bsky.social discovered that the fringe-lipped bats of Panama hunt for prey near their own body size - similar to large cats! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Fotos: Grant Maslowski

How are small #bats able to efficiently hunt prey their own size? 🦇 Leonie Baier & team show how👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

If someone told you: "I'm doing a study featuring lichen, drones and #dinosaur bones" What would you say? www.cell.com/current-biol...

Pun of the week goes to:

Here is my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on an excellent article by the @coudertlab.bsky.social. Re-visiting the shoot branching field (and learning many new things in the process!) brought back fond memories from my time at @slcuplants.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You are what you #wheat. #wheat provides 1 in 5 calories humans consume 🌾 This primer traces its evolution, domestication and looks at future challenges for. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Just because #ants are so abundant, doesn't mean they aren't also affected by the #biodiversity crisis. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 Michael Gross reports www.cell.com/current-biol...

2025 spirit animal: the upside-down jellyfish 🪼🙃 Find out about their amazing biology here👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... by Noémie Buratto& @elisjthore.bsky.social

Unusual low-risk/high-gain strategy in small #bats: Short search and pursuit times with high hunting success rates and targeting prey approaching their own body size of 30 g. Baier et al 2025 @currentbiology.bsky.social Extreme hunting efficiency in a carnivorous bat doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Our latest issue is out! www.cell.com/current-biol... On the cover, a male Victoria's riflebird doing his best to dazzle a female (or screaming at the white blob?) Paper & dispatch here👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Bittersweet to see our obituary of Mark Norell published in @currentbiology.bsky.social this week. Godspeed Mark, from Pete, Jim, and me--and the whole AMNH community.

Diatom ultrastructural diversity across controlled and natural environments: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that this work has been accepted for publication @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Special shoutout to the editorial team – the process was incredibly smooth and productive. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Check out our newest issue where we interview Antonis Rokas, who uses DNA data from fungi, animals, and plants to study the patterns and processes of evolutionary diversity at Vanderbilt University. @rokaslab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

As days are getting cooler in the Northern hemisphere and our planet is being cooked by reckless humans, #thermoregulation concerns all of us. a 🧠 💪 perspective in this great review by Natalia Machado & team. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier. Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot www.cell.com/current-biol...

Curious to know more about the blood-brain barrier? Audrey Chagnot and @axelmontagne.bsky.social have put together this comprehensive primer for a brain-body interactions special issue in 'Current Biology' 👇

Excited to share our Current Biology Primer written with Dr. Audrey Chagnot in the Brain-Body Interactions special issue! We discuss how the BBB works, what happens when it breaks down, and why this matters for brain and body health. @ukdri.ac.uk @thebhf.bsky.social shorturl.at/NNc57

Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation. Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Safe to say that after dopamine and serotonin, #oxytocin is the most widely known brain messenger. 🧠 In our #brain–body special, @sarahwinokur.bsky.social and colleagues provide everything you need to know about oxytocin. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Much of study of #brain–body interactions is focus on the #gut–brain axis. The enteric nervous system is where a lot of this plays out, here a primer 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

This great primer from our #brain–body special by @dulaclab.bsky.social explores the many ways in which the brain and the immune system interact in the diseased state. 🧠 www.cell.com/current-biol...

My latest story for National Geographic discusses a study revealing that Napoleon's retreating troops weren't just decimated by typhus in 1812, but other pathogens too. Inspired by a study in @currentbiology.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Cool paper on mosquito sex, where else than in CB. and let's not forget the many previous scholars that studied and described mosquito mating😉

New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from @leslievosshall.bsky.social&@leahhouri.bsky.social: FEMALE mosquitoes control mating, not males, by special genital movement. No elongation = no mating! Plus: male asian tiger mosquitoes can bypass the yellow fever mosquito female control shorturl.at/tsIWH

Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

IN CURRENT BIOLOGY www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper with @gili-ezranevo.bsky.social & Silvia Henriques from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social's lab out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Appetite, driven by amino acid need 🥚🍖 reshapes olfactory receptor expression so flies 🪰 seek bacteria 🦠 and fermented cues 🥫 to restore nutritional balance ⚖️.

Mind over matter, matter over mind? Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact. 🧠🕺 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology

DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies the pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during their Russian retreat. www.cell.com/current-biol... Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our latest research in collaboration with @nilssonlab.bsky.social, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and Mathieu Bollen reveals a new regulatory strategy employed by cells to control PP1 in mitosis. Check it out in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick? in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... together with @Zuri A. Sullivan

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...

Check out our newest issue where we interview Amy Gladfelter, who studies how extreme cells are organized in space and time at Duke University. Read the interview to find out about Amy's greatest research ambitions and more! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary

"Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial" www.cell.com/current-biol... Patrick Arnold, Wilfried Rosendahl, Michael Hofreiter, & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

"Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras" www.cell.com/current-biol... @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

Which journal would publish such a fragmented mess? www.cell.com/current-biol...

“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon www.cell.com/current-biol...

That is very sad! Sir John was truly sui generis!

If you are curious about flightless birds and the threats they face, here's a primer from our bird special issue: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🦤