Call for new preLighters!
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s preprint highlighting service, recently celebrated its fourth birthday. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints across diverse fields. Over the last four years we have had over 1200 preLights posts published on the site, and…
| Posted on | 21 March 2022 |
Recording available of our ECR event
On 23 February, in conjunction with our sister Community sites FocalPlane and the Node, we hosted an ECR advocacy event with our brilliant panellists Maria Abou Chakra, Pablo Sáez and Sarvenaz Sarabipour. We were delighted to receive so many questions from the audience, and our panellists gave some excellent advice…
| Posted on | 15 March 2022 |
Meet the preLighters: Julia Grzymkowski
Julia Grzymkowski is a PhD student at North Carolina State University, studying the effect of toxicant exposure on intestinal development. Prior to this she completed an undergraduate degree in forensic science at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since joining the preLights community last year, she has contributed several preLights articles and attended…
| Posted on | 14 March 2022 |
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 |