Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

New dispatch in @currentbiology.bsky.social on one of the most interesting pesticide papers this year. It turns out honeybee queens can offload pesticide load to their eggs. Read my review here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or the full paper here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🐝🐝🐝

New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading

Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...

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Thanks @torwager.bsky.social for this enlightening dispatch in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🤩 Read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol... And here is the discussed work in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New dispatch about the cool recent work by Ben-Ezra et al on the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on reef fish @currentbiology.bsky.social ALAN makes for hungry, grumpy and sleep-deprived chromis, neg impacting brain health. 🙏 🐠 ✍️ #abbyshaughnessy Free link here sl1nk.com/iwnp80s

Want a summary of the recently published paper of @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues on @currentbiology.bsky.social and understand the implications for reptile and turtle evolution? Here it is! I hope you have as much fun reading as I had writing it :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…

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from our cover: hunting strategy correlates with eye arrangement in spiders www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...

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from our new issue: Q&A with @christinewebb.bsky.social on The Arrogant Ape and other questions www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Interview with Christine Webb, who studies primate social behavior, cognition, and emotion as well as prevailing norms that dominate the relationship between humans and nature at New York University.

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Arachnophobes, avert your eyes! NEW issue just dropped🕷️👇 www.cell.com/current-biol... As usual, casting a wide net, across all of biology!🧬 🕸️

The latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! It was a wonderful conversation with @backinbrach.bsky.social Greg about his recent @currentbiology.bsky.social paper. Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7Jlm... Article: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Learn about the UV response of the earliest land plants #evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway—& its divergence in zygnematophyte #algae at Cece's @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social poster 100-042 #PlantBio2026 @aspbofficial.bsky.social & checkout @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Had a lot of fun writing this dispatch article for @currentbiology.bsky.social with PhD student Caitlin Doyle www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., highlighting cell morphogenesis and recent work on suctorian growth control principles. 1/3

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

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@cdelawalla.bsky.social is doing the Lord's & every sane person's work for saving science from the massive onslaught by the US government. She also did a Q&A for CB! And defended her PhD 🙏🙏🙏 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Colette Delawalla

Interview with Colette Delawalla, who studies compulsive alcohol use as a doctoral candidate at Emory University and is also Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science.

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The Manul/Pallas' Cat is a wild felid of arid Asian highlands and has the densest and longest fur of all #cats A new study by Jiaqing Yuan &co finds that it belongs to a distinct lineage despite many traits shared with cats in genus Felis www.cell.com/current-biol... Image: tinyurl.com/yc6banxa

Human-made environmental degradation harms #birds in particular (over the past 50 years, nearly 1/3 of North American birds have been lost). A new study by Sarah Jennings &co looks at which traits in birds correlate with how they fare under environmental change. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Avian traits link divergent population responses to environmental change across North America

Jennings et al. show that local bird population trends across North America are shaped by multiple forms of environmental change, including light pollution, air quality, climate, and urbanization. Spe...

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This paper is now published in its final (and much improved) form in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Huge thanks to @sanderliessem.bsky.social, Stefan Dahlhoff, all our co-authors & our collaborators in the @postpop.bsky.social and Büschges labs.

Control of walking direction by descending and dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila

Animals fine-control the speed and direction of locomotion to navigate complex and dynamic environments. To achieve this, they integrate multimodal se…

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Jan M. Ache@jan-ache.bsky.social · last yr.

Preprint Alert! Walking mostly feels natural and easy to us - but the neuronal control of walking is actually incredibly complex. We leveraged the fruit fly as a genetically tractable animal model with a compact nervous system to ask how the brain controls walking direction: tinyurl.com/flywalk. 🧵..

Fear of humans disrupts trophic interactions that underpin animal-mediated ecosystem functions - @currentbiology.bsky.social via @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Fear of humans disrupts trophic interactions that underpin animal-mediated ecosystem functions

Human activities displace wildlife, with potential consequences for animal foraging and the ecosystem functions they support. Manlick et al. simulate human activities and experimentally disrupt a keys...

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In our recent issue we interview @cdelawalla.bsky.social, who studies compulsive alcohol use as a doctoral candidate at Emory University and is also Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. Find out more about Colette's key early influences and scientific hero's here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our latest @crick.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-ipls.bsky.social fresh @currentbiology.bsky.social 💥. How can morphogens specify cell fate at single cell precision? A little help from Notch, ERK and glia can go a long way! A collab with the wonderful Vil Fernandes 🪰📈

UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do cells build complex tissues? 🧬 New research from UCL shows how morphogens and other signalling systems collaborate to guide individual cell identities, revealing how tissues create precise patterns during development. Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

In our recent issue we interview @cdelawalla.bsky.social, who studies compulsive alcohol use as a doctoral candidate at Emory University and is also Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. Find out more about Colette's key early influences and scientific hero's here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our latest issue includes an interview with Zhongchi Liu, who uses strawberries to study plant developmental genetics at the Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. Find out more about why she decided to study strawberries and how her research benefits society here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

While we cannot possibly endorse this proposal, please do check out our extensive archive, especially of timeless short format pieces, like primers and quick guides. More than enough to help you through the summer doldrums. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last mo.

Maybe we scientists could jointly agree as a community not to put out any new preprints or papers for (e.g.) one entire year, giving all of us time & space to thoroughly read the stuff that's already out there. [Nice dream.]

Folks, mind the suctorian trap!

Zhejing (Maggie) Xu@zjmaggiexu.bsky.social · last mo.

Our updated full story on suctorian trap structure adaptation now online in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Huge thanks to Scott and all the co-authors for all the wow moments along the way! Also, if you’d like some new #protist #suctorian, let’s know! (They are surprisingly easy roommates/predators) 🤠

Congratulation @transitionalform.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the next chapter of your thesis @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Great work showing that the two fundamental vascular tissues - xylem and phloem evolved asynchronously. Read Laura's thread for more details 👇👇

Laura Cooper@transitionalform.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Une étude, publiée dans @currentbiology.bsky.social , révèle pour la première fois que les poulpes sont capables d'utiliser à bon escient un miroir 🪞Pour attraper leur proie - un crabe - les animaux devaient prendre la direction opposée à celle de l'image qu'ils voyaient www.rts.ch/info/science...

Les pieuvres comprennent l'utilisation des images reflétées par un miroir

Les poulpes sont capables d'utiliser à leur profit les images reflétées par un miroir. Une équipe de recherche américaine a appris à plusieurs pieuvres à repérer grâce à un miroir de la nourriture qui...

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"Algae frequently get a bad press" 🤔 But reflecting further, most of the time they do good work. All about #algae in this excellent primer by John Raven and Mario Gordano www.cell.com/current-biol...

Algae

Algae are a diverse group of organisms that collectively have important impacts, both positive and negative, on the environment and on human lives.

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