From burying beetles to shamans, follow Manvir Singh @manvir.bsky.social in his sweeping Q&A from our latest issue. www.cell.com/current-biol...

From our current issue: No one better placed than Walt Koenig & colleagues to give us a quick guide on Acorn woodpeckers — named after their acorn caches (though mostly insect-eaters) — and their fascinating cooperative breeding system. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our latest issue is out!👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... On the cover: Nautilus ≈ 🐙+🐚 (Maybe — like the Nautilus — our journal is a living fossil, believing in the interest and inspiration our readers might draw from the diversity of biological systems, questions and approaches we try to feature🙏 )

#OurNewPaper in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The final version of our paper on how ants and possibly other insects use a crazy mechanism involving extensive transcriptional interference to regulate odorant receptor expression is now open access in my favorite journal, @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🍀The conserved machinery of bipolar prospindle formation controls acentrosomal spindle orientation in land plants @currentbiology.bsky.social 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225011054 🔬Prospindle formation in the Mpcord cell. White arrowheads indicate polar organizers

Dogs extend verbal labels for functional classification of objects @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding. shorturl.at/63yFo

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Curious about ciliary extracellular vesicles? Check out our last work about KIF13B extracellular vesicles from cilia, published on @currentbiology.bsky.social. Congratulations to amazing co-authors and thank you to @lottepedersen.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team www.cell.com/current-biol... plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh www.cell.com/current-biol...

And of course, don't miss our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper! Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Nice interview to Katie Peichel @currentbiology.bsky.social I completely agree with her claims for more funding for curiosity-driven research, basic Science... Science. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

Under #climate change, extreme weather events are liable to become more frequent and intense. @simonbaeckens.bsky.social & Colin Donihue review the evidence for impacts on #evolution such events can have and how we can study them in the future. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Meet the Topi. An antelope where females are promiscuous and compete for males. And males use "false alarm snorts" www.cell.com/current-biol...

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team www.cell.com/current-biol... plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh www.cell.com/current-biol...

In our latest issue, we're going ballistic! On the cover, a chameleon capturing prey, using its ballistic tongue, driven by a linear actuator, a skeletal rod squeezed out by muscles. So ingenious is the solution that lungless salamanders evolved it too... 🦎 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... check out the recent dispatch on endolysosomes and melano-biology interplay in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @delevoyecedric.bsky.social & @laurasalavessa.bsky.social from @membramics-lab.bsky.social

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

Thank a #fish! www.cell.com/current-biol...

The microscopic alliance between algae & bacteria offers rare, step-by-step snapshots of how bacteria lose genes and adapt to increasing host dependence. New study led by Rachel Foster @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses - @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

RIP Jim Estes

Check our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social about the unique sex determination system in Nautilus ➡️ XX/XY chromosomes unlike other cephalopods (ZZ/Z0). with @reef-combo.bsky.social and @anariesgo.bsky.social et al., and led by Hector Torrado. Get it: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbs~_LsQS...

A. James Hudpseth, who died 16 August at age 79, devoted his 50-year career to untangling how the ear converts sound into electrical signals. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/hearing/reme...

Check out our most recent issue where we interview Wen-Sung Chung, who studies cephalopod neurobiology, ecology and diversity at the University of Queensland. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Folks on this site 🦋 in particular must care about #butterflies #monarchs breed from Southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Soon their #migration starts. With their numbers in decline, optimal conservation strategies are needed! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

for more background on #dopamine, checkout this free primer www.cell.com/current-biol...

New Dispatch in @currentbiology.bsky.social w/ @RobinPiquet & @dryacinetensaouti.bsky.social highlighting elegant work from the @iordanova.bsky.social lab that formally disentangles whether dopamine signals reward prediction errors or value. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ldGk3QW8S...

Everything you always wanted to know about the claustrum but were afraid to ask...😜 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Voici l'étude👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

First proposed in this seminal 2016 paper by Julian Hennessy, Axel Janke and co... www.cell.com/current-biol...

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

My dispatch on early echinoderms (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🐍 How does a “wild” reptile from Germany end up in U.S. import records when it isn’t native to Europe? Prof Meredith Gore & colleagues reviewed 20+ years of wildlife trade data, uncovering gaps that put biodiversity at risk. 🔗 go.umd.edu/wildlife-tra... via @currentbiology.bsky.social

@currentbiology.bsky.social has always been one of my favorite journals but I think they have now outdone themselves www.cell.com/current-biol.... And picked up by the @nytimes.com as well! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...