preLights as a teaching aid
If you’re a regular preLights reader, you might have seen a recent collection of posts published by groups of university students. Two courses, NYU Peer Review, for second-year graduate students, and Utrecht Protein Folding and Assembly, for final-year undergraduates, have used writing for preLights as a teaching tool for group-based…
| Posted on | 14 June 2021 |
preLights is indexed on Sciety
We are delighted that preLight posts are now indexed on Sciety, who advocate for public preprint evaluation. preLights features on Sciety groups alongside other preprint review initiatives You can follow preLights on Sciety here, so you'll never miss a new post! preLights is also indexed on Europe PMC,…
| Posted on | 8 June 2021 |
preLights talks to Christian Mosimann
Christian Mosimann is the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Chair for the Cardiac Research Director and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. His lab predominantly uses the zebrafish (Danio rerio) to investigate the lateral plate mesoderm and developmental and evolutionary origin…
| Posted on | 2 June 2021 |
preLights features on new bioRxiv dashboard
A new dashboard display on bioRxiv has been launched to show links to discussion and evaluation of preprints, including preLight posts. One of the main objectives of preLights is to facilitate discussion around new preprints, and we are very glad that almost two-thirds of our preLight posts now feature comments…
| Posted on | 20 May 2021 |
preLights gets an update
A (mini) makeover You might have noticed last week that the preLights interface had a bit of an update. When the preLights website originally launched, the navigation bar was designed to be a dropdown menu on the left-hand side of the page. This format is optimal for mobile browsing -…
| Posted on | 5 May 2021 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Irepan Salvador-Martinez
Irepan Salvador-Martinez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Single Cell Genomics Team at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) in Barcelona. He has been a preLighter since 2018, and since then has highlighted a number of preprints related to developmental biology and cell lineage tracing. His scientific career has…
| Posted on | 4 May 2021 |