Preprints promote transparency and communication
preLighters Carmen Adriaens, Gautam Dey, Amanda Haage, Wouter Masselink, Sundar Ram Naganathan, Lauren Neves, Teresa Rayon, Samantha Seah, Srivats Venkataramanan wrote a commentary in response to a news article in Nature, which was published on the Node. ‘How can we have preprints and support good journalism?’ Tom Sheldon, a…
| Posted on | 13 August 2018 |
‘This month in preLights’ – new blog post on The Node
We have started a monthly blog post on The Node where we summarise the preLights in developmental biology and related fields. Read our first post here.
| Posted on | 9 August 2018 |
preLights posts are now featured in The Company of Biologists journals
Three of The Company of Biologists journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms) now feature preLights posts each month in their online Table of Contents (eTOC). The lists include the title of the highlighted preprints, their short 'tweetable' summaries and links to the preLights posts and the…
| Posted on | 1 August 2018 |
Call for new preLighters
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s new preprint highlighting service, has now been running for more than five months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. We are ready to grow our team of preLighters and are seeking…
| Posted on | 5 June 2018 |
Meet Máté Pálfy, the new Community Manager for preLights!
Hello everyone, My name is Máté and I’m really happy to start this month as the Community Manager for preLights. I’ve always been very excited about reading and discussing cutting-edge research and all the new ideas in science; so probably it's needless to say that I’ve quickly become a huge…
| Posted on | 9 May 2018 |
Introducing preLights: a Development editorial
preLights was conceived and developed with input from representatives of The Company of Biologists' five journals, including Development (which publishes advances in developmental biology and stem cells). In Development's latest issue, Executive Editor Katherine Brown and Editor-in-Chief Olivier Pourquié tell the story behind preLights and share some thoughts on its future.…
| Posted on | 23 February 2018 |