Preprints Workshop at Columbia University
On February 11th, the Postdoctoral Society at Columbia University held a Preprints Workshop to bring some clarity about this relatively new form of disseminating research findings. For this event, Sandra Franco, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, member of the Postdoctoral Society and also a preLighter, invited Samantha Hindle and…
| Posted on | 24 February 2020 |
Celebrating our second birthday!
preLights launched two years ago, and we’re thrilled to see how the platform has grown over this time. Our vibrant community of 180 early-career researchers and counting (we currently have an open call for new members to join) has written 600 preprint highlights. New initiatives such as preLists and authors commenting…
| Posted on | 20 February 2020 |
Call for new preLighters 2020
preLights, The Company of Biologists’ preprint highlighting service, is turning two years old later this month. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. We are excited to now further grow our team of preLighters and are seeking…
| Posted on | 5 February 2020 |
Create preprint lists (preLists) on our website!
We launched preLists last year, and responding to the interest from the scientific community, we have now made it possible for any researcher (not just preLighters) to create either a topic-specific preprint list, or collect a list of preprints that were presented at a conference. (The posting of preprint highlights…
| Posted on | 20 January 2020 |
The most read preLights of 2019
2019 was a very prolific year with 314 preprint highlights posted, and here we've collected the most popular ones: #1 Pavithran Ravindran‘s post on optogenetic control of Wnt signalling to interrogate patterning in stem cells was the most read preLight in 2019 and included a comment from preprint first…
| Posted on | 1 January 2020 |
7 things that shaped preLights in 2019
On the last day of the year (and in fact, the decade), we look back at some of the highlights of 2019 #1 We launched preLists, where researchers curate a list of preprints presented at conferences, or compile a list of preprints on a certain topic. #2 At the…
| Posted on | 31 December 2019 |