preLights talks to Julia Schroeder
Dr Julia Schroeder is Senior Lecturer for Ecology and Evolution at Imperial College London. Her research primarily focuses on the evolutionary basis of social traits, with studies focused on a wild population of house sparrows living on Lundy Island. Along with her scientific research interests, she also advocates for women…
| Posted on | 2 March 2022 |
Preprints in Motion recent episodes: December 2021 and January 2022
The Preprints in Motion podcast was launched by preLighters Jonny Coates and Emma Wilson last year. Thanks to Emma for updating us on their recent episodes: Episode 15: The Exocyst: Somewhere between science and superstitionThis week we discuss the exocyst with Dr Hannes Maib, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Dundee. He explains the…
| Posted on | 24 February 2022 |
Happy Birthday to preLights – we turn four!
preLights launched on 20 February 2018...over 1200 posts and over 300 preLighters later, we are very happy to be celebrating our fourth birthday! The pandemic saw a huge boost to the number of preprints posted and downloaded on bioRxiv and medRxiv, and also a big jump in the number of…
| Posted on | 20 February 2022 |
ECR Advocacy Event
preLights will be turning four on 20 February! Since our launch in 2018 we’ve published over 1200 preLights posts, with representation from every bioRxiv category, and established an engaging presence on Twitter. But at the heart of preLights is our community of preLighters: early-career researchers (ECRs) who advocate for preprints,…
| Posted on | 10 February 2022 |
preLighters paper on preprints published in PLOS Biology
preLighters Gautam Day and Jonny Coates, together with previous preLights Community Manager Mate Palfy, have authored a paper published this week in PLOS Biology. 'Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic' was previously published as a preprint on bioRxiv. In the study, Brierly et al. investigate…
| Posted on | 3 February 2022 |
Meet the preLighters: Osvaldo Contreras
Osvaldo Contreras is a Chilean molecular and cell biologist working as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Richard Harvey at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI) in Sydney, Australia, where he investigates heart development and repair. He completed his PhD in Prof. Enrique Brandan’s lab at the…
| Posted on | 24 January 2022 |