preLights reached 500 posts!
24 September 2019
Last week we reached our 500th preLights post – a big round of applause to all the preLighters who contributed! We are thrilled to see the wide range of fields and topics that the team covers, and are grateful to the preprint authors who provided comments to questions and additional insights to their story. The[…]
We presented at the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards
18 September 2019
As one of four projects that were shortlisted for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing, we were invited to talk about preLights at the ALPSP Annual conference organized at the beautiful De Vere Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor, UK from September 11th – 13th, 2019 Claire Moulton, Publisher at The Company of[…]
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Connor Rosen
15 August 2019
Connor Rosen is a 5th-year PhD student in Immunology in the labs of Profs. Noah Palm and Aaron Ring at Yale University. In his research he wants to find out how the microbiota interacts with the host. We chatted to Connor about his graduate work, why he got interested in preprints and his thoughts on[…]
preLights nominated for ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing
13 August 2019
We are delighted to announce that preLights has been shortlisted for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. On the ALPSP website you can read an interview with us, where we also discuss our future plans
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Teresa Rayon
15 July 2019
Teresa Rayon is a postdoctoral researcher in James Briscoe’s lab at the Francis Crick Institute. Here, she studies how time is measured during development. We met Teresa at her institute to talk about her passion for science, her outreach activities which involve running a science podcast and preLights. Let’s start with the very[…]
preLists – charting the waters of the preprint sea
23 May 2019
We are happy to announce the launch of preLists, a new initiative within preLights where early-career researchers curate lists of preprints for the community. These lists follow two main themes: preprints on a specific topic or preprints which have been presented at scientific meetings. preLighters can also add brief one-liner summaries to each preprint, and[…]