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Scientific journal publishing original research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it! @CellPressNews https://t.co/pfSLHA1KDS
London, Cambridge MA et al.
Joined September 2012
We're going hybrid! Current Biology now offers a gold #openaccess option to all authors. (image: Nipam Patel)
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There's always Current Biology!.
Controversial opinion: while it’s popular to say we don’t need the glam journals, scientists aspire for recognition, like an actor aspires for an Oscar and a musician aspires for a Grammy. If Nature/Science/Cell is taken away, we would need some other way to recognise good work.
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All of Sydney Brenner's 'loose ends' columns are now freely available as an e-book on our website:
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New #fossil from Peru reveals that walking #whales were much more widely spread ~42 million years ago than previously thought #evolution #paleontology
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It's Ernst Haeckel's birthday (183) today and really just an excuse to marvel at his artforms of #nature again.
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C. elegans. They wiggle forward. They wiggle backward. And occasionally they fly through an electric field. @sugitakulab @Phageman0911 #worms #celegans.
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Our new special issue on Plant Interactions is out! Inside is a collection of pieces giving an overview of some of the many interesting ways in which plants interact with others and with each other. Have a look:
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Congrats on an epic achievement. What a long way we've come!
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium!.Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
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Our latest issue is out! On the cover the pintail enantiornithine Yuanchuavis by @SerpenIllus (first spotted on twitter).see the paper by @Paleontologista & co here👇.
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tail of a #dinosaur found in amber. Look at images, read paper & play #JurassicPark theme in your head.
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Picking one of 11000 species of #bird for the cover was a daunting challenge. In the end we went for a no-excuses showy bird, .the Roseate Spponbill (Platalea ajaja), a wading bird of South and Central America and a Florida favorite.
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Our latest (f)issue is out, sporting Odontanthias borbonius, a dweller the mesophotic zone.
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#pterosaurs dominated Mesozoic airspace. Some became the largest animals to ever fly. But it turns out, the secret to their gigantism lay in the #evolution of their walking abilities. exciting new CB paper by Robert Smyth, David Unwin &co.#fossilFriday.
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"If you are not careful, you could end up spending an inordinate amount of time on things like Twitter" & many other nuggets of wisdom from the inimitable @HarmitMalik in his Q&A
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Hello yellow! It's Octopodober and we have a small special issue on #cephalopods and their amazing behavior and other soft skills.🐙🐙🐙. Check it out here!👇.
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They ruled the skies for ~150 million years, some of them were the size of small planes. Pterosaurs!. Introduced and spectacularly illustrated by @WryCritic, with @SteveBrusatte . Read it here:
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Has the #NobelPrize made you curious about #Neanderthals #DNA?. Check out the great review on Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in our #genome by Patrick Reilly, @SerenaTucci, Josh Akey & co!.
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A widespread misconception is that only male #birds sing. Naomi Langmore sets the record straight in this #quickguide on #female bird song
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"Hardly any aspect of life is more characteristic than its almost unlimited diversity." Ernst Mayr. Our latest issue is a special focusing on #biodiversity with a wide range of reviews primers, essays on biodiversity and how to save it. (Most are free).👇.
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They wiggle forward, they wiggle backward, and occasionally they help win the #nobelprize!. Congrats to Ambros, Ruvkun and their model C. elegans!.
Congratulations to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for receiving the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of #microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation! 🧵 1/3.
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Psyched about #pterosaurs? .Check out the fantastically illustrated primer by @WryCritic and @SteveBrusatte in CB.
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Our latest issue is out! And it’s special! Jam-packed with reviews, primers, quickguides on the #cytoskeleton .👇.
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Congrats on 25 years of service to Geoffrey North, the man who made Current Biology & probably the longest serving editor in biology…
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Due to their vast numbers, #ants are a formidable force in #ecosystems around the globe. 🐜🐜🐜.For the rest of life, this means living with, from or in spite of ants. @DanielKronauer & @Pselaphinae explore how ants shape #biodiversity.👇👇👇.
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one gene — more than 200 color patterns in lady #beetles by @benprudhomme1 & colleagues #insects #evodevo.
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All of Sydney Brenner's 'loose ends' columns are available here:
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In anticipation of her 100th birthday next month, a profile of Brenda Milner — neuroscientist and psychologist (and survivor of the 1918 flu pandemic) #neuroscience #psychology #WomenInSTEM
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Do blind cavefish dream of sunlit rivers?. They have active visual brain centers. New by @AlexCarlKeene .
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Let's hear from 21 amazing women in #biology, starting with a grande dame of #popgen Tomoko Ohta #WomenInScience #WomenInScienceDay.
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on the cover of our latest issue: octopus on his way home. 🐙🧠.for more on the cephalopod brain👇.
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#Lockdown extreme: naked molerats are so adapted to high CO2 in their nests that fresh air gives them seizures; they have lowered GABAergic inhibition in their brains to conserve energy, because they need less inhibition in their high CO2 environment
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How it started: 30 yrs ago, a geeky new kid on the block of science journals, from the grungy molecular biology of the early 90s to All of biology! We are immensely🙏🙏🙏to all our authors, reviewers & readers for their hard work & trust. You keep the Current flowing!🧪🪰🌱🦠🦜🧠
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So you think you can dance? But can you interpret and decode a dance?. here's how #bees do it🐝🐝🐝 by Barbara Webb & Anna Hadjitofi.
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"I feel that my journey of discovery has only just begun, although I have been on it for over 25 years!". Q&A with @uramakri — champion of #conservation #genomics .
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Our latest issue has dropped! On the cover, a vibration-sensing gecko with mesmerizing eyes!. We 💚 🦎. read the issue 👇👇👇.
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Our latest issue is out! On the cover, asexual organs of Marchantia🌱🌸.And inside a vibrant mix from pterosaurs, via DNA in the dirt to bird-eating tortoises. Check it out!👇.
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Happy #DNAday! Here's the "most important discovery" described by Francis Crick in a brilliant letter to his son. via @LettersOfNote #DNADay18
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There are more arthropod #species than all other species combined. @ggiribet & Greg Edgecombe @NHM_London describe the #evolution and #phylogeny relationships of #arthropods in this free review
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How do cells know how big they are and how big they should be?. a primer by Nicholas Rhind.
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For some it's just seaweed, for others Rhodophytha — but red algae are a super important group of primary producers in the oceans . Check out the quick guide on red algae here👇.
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The mathematical beauty of #plants is particularly obvious in the arrangement of #leaves — a primer on #phyllotaxis
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Hearing the sounds of bats past. Fernando Montealegre-Z & team have managed to reconstruct the hearing abilities of a 44-million year old katydid. Its ears were attuned to ultrasound so they could hear 🦇🦇🦇.
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An inordinate fondness for #protists. Book review by @WallaceUcsf celebrating the diversity of single-celled #eukaryotes
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This is a raison d'être of our journal: helping you find what you weren't looking for!.
Why I still visit physical bookstores. I can find anything I'm looking for on Amazon. Bookstores are where I find what I wasn't looking for.
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Predictable (but not boring) #evolution: rove #beetles evolved into #ant mimics over & over & over @Pselaphinae
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Our latest issue just dropped!. Not much to see on the cover, just a fish with 'legs'🐟🦵🦵🦵 #NatureIsAmazing .
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On the cover is Mallomonas tonsurata a unicellular alga, with an intricate nanoscale armor. #cellevo (Image: Naoji Yubuki and Brian Leander)
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#Drosophila never cease to amaze! Experiments in death valley revealed that they can fly 15km in a day and sue a sun compass. #navigation #animalbehavior
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from an interest in "soccer, bikes, skateboards, and generally messing around in the neighborhood" to studying three-way symbioses — the journey of @mcsymbiont in this Q&A
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quarreling as we can be at times, #humans are also an extraordinarily cooperative species @jbsilk1 & @corenapicella introduce the #evolution of human cooperation in this free primer from our #conflictandcooperation special
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@OdedRechavi @Twitter @verified join the #unverified club. It's much cooler. (we've also tried and failed, time and again).
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Our latest issue is out! It’s a special! Living in microbial world, packed with reviews, primers & more focussing on #microbiology.
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plant galls provide safe havens where #insect larvae can develop at the expense of the host plant — but the insects are also kind of trapped in there. A #parasite plant takes advantage of this immobility. #evolution.
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Michael Ashburner — father figure of modern #Drosophila genetics & genomics — remembered by Gerry Rubin. @HHMIJanelia .
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#genes of #Neanderthal and Denisovan archaic hominins helped modern #humans adapt outside Africa #evolution #genome
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How it started. How it's going. (our latest issue is out!
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Lichen are amazing life forms that can even thrive in outer space. Lichen biology is also reaching for new frontiers as discussed in this recent review in CB
Around 2012, the lichen 'Xanthoria elegans' (commonly known as the Elegant Sunburst Lichen!) was attached to exterior of the International Space Station for 18 months AND SURVIVED! . With no water, no air, extreme temperatures and constant bombardment with radiation!
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two new papers by Luisa Vasconcelos @Neuro_CF & @BarryJDickson on the role of the ovipositor in Drosophila courtship and copulation — it's complicated!
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On this #WorldOctopusDay do pick up our special issue on the amazing biology of #cephalopods from last October.(even though there's a cuttlefish on the cover).🐙🐙🐙.
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review by @RuthDGates & co is a reminder that to save #coralreefs we need to understand basic #coral biology
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Weevil pollinates orchid to have fruit for its offspring to eat. Parsitoid wasps kills weevil offspring, effectively turning the fruit-eating pest into a useful pollinator. #nature works in fabulous ways
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How the diversity of #flowers evolved. Free review by @Beverley_CUBG & @Edwige_M #evolution #plantscience
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A cool new study shows that internet memes can raise awareness & interest in "unappealing species" — now lets see if we can raise interest for these guys — naked mole rats, the only eusocial mammal with lots of super interesting biology (photo Emily Vice)
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rove beetles: largest family of the largest order of the largest class of the largest phylum of the largest kingdom
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How #actin affects #microtubule dynamics depends on whether the actin network is branched or not — by @Lblanchoin & colleagues #cellbio #cytoskeleton ….
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one of the fastest-evolving #genes in the human #genome codes for a receptor binding #pathogens — evidence for an arms-race between #bacteria and #humans #evolution
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Festive #nudibranchs adorn the cover of our last 2019 issue. Drawn by Ernst Haeckel. Happy holidays & happy #MolluskMonday
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Our last cover for this year: the big mouth (of a bottlenose #dolphin) Thank you for all your support and interest & happy holidays!
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