Announcing a new preLights webinar series: From preprint to publication
In line with our ongoing postLights initiative, one of our preLights Ambassadors, Martin Estermann, has decided to create and host a new webinar series which will focus on the journey of the preprint. This initiative will involve a series of virtual webinars featuring different researchers (often early-career researchers) who posted…
| Posted on | 16 November 2023 |
Representing preLights at the XXXVIII Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Protozoology
Written by Jennifer Ann Black, preLights Ambassador and postdoctoral researcher in the Tosi Lab, Faculty of Medicine Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Caxambu, a quaint city in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), is the traditional destination for the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of…
| Posted on | 3 October 2023 |
How to conduct interviews – brainstorming session with members of the Node, preLights and FocalPlane.
Our three community sites - the Node, preLights and FocalPlane - have joined forces to create a platform for scientists who are keen to work on their science communication skills. This year, we have run several webinars and workshops that all aimed to empower our community members with relevant tools…
| Posted on | 18 September 2023 |
preLights’ 5th Birthday webinar recording is now available!
preLights is celebrating its 5th birthday. To mark the occasion, this webinar features four short talks given by preLights alumni who have all made significant contributions to preLights, and have since taken a range of career paths. In their talks, they tell us how they have managed to identify and…
| Posted on | 15 March 2023 |
Survey about online seminars/conferences – we want to hear from you!
The ongoing pandemic has resulted in many scientific conferences moving to an online format, and researchers who can no longer attend seminars at their institutes have been organising and attending various virtual seminar series (e.g. on The Node there are currently over 40 online events listed in developmental biology and…
| Posted on | 23 June 2020 |
bioRxiv preprint on the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic
In a collaboration with Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley and Jessica Polka, preLighters Jonny Coates (corresponding author), Gautam Dey and preLights Community Manager Máté Pálfy have posted a preprint on bioRxiv that analyses various attributes of COVID-19 preprints including their publishing and peer review, and also looks at how they were used by…
| Posted on | 27 May 2020 |