preLights reached 500 posts!
24 September 2019
Last week we reached our 500th preLights post – a big round of applause to all the preLighters who contributed! We are thrilled to see the wide range of fields and topics that the team covers, and are grateful to the preprint authors who provided comments to questions and additional insights to their story. The[…]
We presented at the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards
18 September 2019
As one of four projects that were shortlisted for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing, we were invited to talk about preLights at the ALPSP Annual conference organized at the beautiful De Vere Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor, UK from September 11th – 13th, 2019 Claire Moulton, Publisher at The Company of[…]
preLights nominated for ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing
13 August 2019
We are delighted to announce that preLights has been shortlisted for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. On the ALPSP website you can read an interview with us, where we also discuss our future plans
preLists – charting the waters of the preprint sea
23 May 2019
We are happy to announce the launch of preLists, a new initiative within preLights where early-career researchers curate lists of preprints for the community. These lists follow two main themes: preprints on a specific topic or preprints which have been presented at scientific meetings. preLighters can also add brief one-liner summaries to each preprint, and[…]
Call for new preLighters
20 May 2019
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s preprint highlighting service, has now been running for 15 months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. As preLights is building momentum, we are ready to grow our team of preLighters and are seeking early-career researchers (PhD[…]
preLighters at the joint BSCB/BSDB 2019 meeting in Warwick
12 April 2019
Many preLighters, both from Europe and overseas, took part at the joint meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology and Cell Biology. We were especially proud that preLighters were among the award winners for the best poster prize. Congratulations to all!