New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Chris Kyriazis
This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!
www.ign.com/articles/the...
Holding a meeting of the ESA God Squad for NMFS’s jeopardy biological opinion on the effects of oil development on the endangered Rice’s whale is absurd even for Trump
Implementing the BO’s Reasonable & Prudent Alternative is an economic & physical no-brainer
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3//2025-05/...
And guess what’s on the cover of Current Biology today 🐸
A great compliment. I drew most of the graphical abstract and put a lot of love into it 🥰. I cannot take credit for the amazing photo that was my collaborator @yusanyang.bsky.social
plus a nice dispatch on the island-hopping kaleidoscopic frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...
The “Fraud Squad” is a more accurate name.
And this is horrible for Rice’s Whale and other endangered wildlife.
The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...
Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur
I am thrilled to present my latest work, which finds that bacterial genetic diversity (in the form of co-colonizing strains of the same species and the genetic variants they harbor) is uniformly distributed along the gut. Read more about it at Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Trevor A. Branch
Chris Nagano
Happy #WorldFrogDay!🐸
We apologize to all frogs and toads, for not having nearly enough of these amazing animals on our covers. We will do better.
Diana Aguilar-Gómez
Diana Aguilar-Gómez
Diana Aguilar-Gómez
Here, the authors show that while species composition varies significantly across gut regions, genetic diversity within species is remarkably uniform and driven by similar strain frequencies along the...
Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur
Current Biology
Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
The “God Squad" voted unanimously to remove protections for Gulf animals, for "security." It's not the first time federal agencies cited the “energy emergency” to avoid rules meant to protect animals.
Michael Wasney
Current Biology
Give Now to Save the Wild
Trump's Extinction Committee seeks to eliminate essential protections for endangered animals in the Gulf of Mexico — all to fast-track oil drilling.
This move could doom the last 51 Rice's whales on Earth, as well as sea turtles
act.biologicaldiversity.org/IZHPq3mbt0-4...
Diana Aguilar-Gómez
Most of us will *never* achieve this level of cover/graphical abstract 🤩
The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action:
Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
