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I am very happy to share our latest paper, just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! In collaboration with Olga Garaschuk's lab, we used in vivo 2P calcium imaging to investigate the role of sleep spindles in the hippocampus. 🧠💤
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Can we use robotic augmentation limbs as flexibly as our natural limbs⁉️
🧨 Our new study, just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, tested this using the Third Thumb @daniclode.bsky.social: a wearable robotic
extra thumb you control with your toes!
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My latest:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.
@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪
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Word!
Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Jim Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, science impresario and later in life a problematic and controversial figure.
Alex Gann on the many facets of his 7-decade career.
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🧠 Our fun new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social, where @pbogdan.bsky.social used fMRI & LLM embeddings from a schema encoding dataset to show that relational semantics have distinct patterns of representation from concept semantics
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w/@synecphory.bsky.social
Somewhere a little editor grew little wings...🙏
Calcium spikes know which way the wind blows!
Lily Nguyen and I wrote a dispatch on this fascinating work led by Itzel Ishida+@sethisachin.bsky.social+Gaby Maimon!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mfk53QW8S...
One scientist talking to two others. "These days. If you're not a mad scientist, you're not paying attention."
Me. I'm a mad scientist.
(Paul Noth cartoons)
for more on how plant leaves are arranged around the stem, see this Primer👇 by Cris Kuhlemeier
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The rules of arrangement: leaf position governed by cell division in a moss #plantsci🌿
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From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
www.cell.com/current-biol... Our new quick guide to Prototaxites is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social !
New paper led by former PhD student @romainlefevre.bsky.social: 10 years after the first experiment, we finally know how horses make their biphonic and unsusually high pitch whinnies! Thanks to many collaborators including @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social & David Reby
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How moss makes a spiral of leaves through a rotating asymmetric division of the apical cell meristem--our paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social today! @soestrauss.bsky.social Richard Smith, Joe Cammarata
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Very sad to hear about the passing of Dr. Hans Sues. His last work was the description of Tyrannoroter heberti. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists uncover how horses make their distinctive whinny: by whistling while singing at the same time. spkl.io/63320AvlDa
Elodie Briefer & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
On the top of the head, the parietal “third eye” of the Mojave fringe-toed lizard (Uma scoparia) illuminates the deep past of the vertebrate retina. In their review in this issue, Kafetzis et al. trace the origin of our eyes to an ancient, composite median visual system predating vertebrates. The retina's layered organization echoes the structure of this ancestral system. Photo credit: Vasilis Karkalas.
Our latest issue is out!
On the cover, a lizard with its median third eye.🦎
Because you really need three eyes to take in all the diverse biology in this issue... 👁️👁️👁️
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A short book review that I wrote for @currentbiology.bsky.social on @joanstrassmann.bsky.social’s new book, The Social Lives of Birds. The book is well worth a read if you like birds, behavioral ecology, and/or social evolution.
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Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social
Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas
Very sad news indeed....
Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we used genetic data from a suite of Antarctic marine invertebrates to map locations of genetic diversity hotspots, divergence and connectivity 🐙🦐🪱🧬 @lausally.bsky.social @janstrugnell.bsky.social
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Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
