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7 things that shaped preLights in 2019

On the last day of the year (and in fact, the decade), we look back at some of the highlights of 2019   #1 We launched preLists, where researchers curate a list of preprints presented at conferences, or compile a list of preprints on a certain topic. #2 At the…


Posted on 31 December 2019

Meet the preLighters: an interview with Maiko Kitaoka

Maiko Kitaoka is a graduate student in the lab of Rebecca Heald at the University of California, Berkeley. Here she studies the cause of chromosome mis-segregation defects in Xenopus hybrids. We caught up with Maiko to discuss her research, science communication, ballet, preprints and more.     Let’s start in…


Posted on 30 October 2019

Capturing the value added to a paper during peer review

Preprints accelerate science by making research accessible prior to journal publication, but peer-review often substantially improves papers. While for a long time the review history of a paper was not visible to anyone apart from the authors and reviewers/editors, recently, increasing numbers of journals have started publishing this information alongside…


Posted on 26 September 2019

Meet the preLighters: an interview with Gautam Dey

Gautam Dey is a postdoctoral researcher working at the MRC LMCB, UCL, London, in the lab of Buzz Baum. Here, he is studying the evolution of cell cycle control using fission yeast and archaea. He has been a team member since the start of preLights and has written sixteen preLight…


Posted on 25 September 2019

preLights reached 500 posts!

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…


Posted on 24 September 2019

We presented at the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards

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   [caption id="attachment_13960" align="alignnone"…


Posted on 18 September 2019
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