preLights webinar with Jessica Polka: Commenting on preprints
We recently started an internal webinar series for the preLights community to discuss topics such as effective scientific writing, new developments in preprints, innovations in publishing and peer review, or science outreach. For our second webinar we were honoured to have Jessica Polka, Executive Director of ASAPbio, join us as…
| Posted on | 21 May 2020 |
preLights featured on Nature Index
We are thrilled that Nature Index has highlighted preLights in a new post that discusses platforms that review and curate preprints. With a special emphasis on the surge in COVID-19 preprints, the article also features the covidpreprints.com website and quotes from Jonny Coates, the preLighter who built the website, and…
| Posted on | 20 May 2020 |
Preprints by preLighters – Snehal Kadam
Snehal Kadam is a research assistant in Karishma Kaushik’s lab and is studying bacterial pathogens and host-pathogen interactions. She has highlighted a number of preprints in this field, and is now first author on the new study: To Serum or Not to Serum: Reduced-serum based methods for contact-based co-culture of…
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Preprints by preLighters – David Wright
In this new post series, we feature early-career researchers on the preLights team who have recently posted a preprint. They explain the main findings of their work, and why they chose to communicate their research through preprints. First up we have David Wright, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the…
| Posted on | 7 May 2020 |
Project by preLighters selected for the eLife Sprint
We are delighted that the covidpreprints.com project was selected for the 2020 eLife Innovation Sprint. The team at the Sprint, which will be lead by Gautam Dey, Jonny Coates and Zhang-He Goh, is looking for the help of software developers and data scientists to give advice on how to efficiently…
| Posted on | 28 April 2020 |
The preLights community build a new website for landmark coronavirus preprints
Over the course of three months, more than a thousand coronavirus preprints have been posted. A group of preLighters has now created the website covidpreprints.com to feature landmark studies and place them on a timeline of the pandemic. In the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with currently over one million confirmed cases…
| Posted on | 3 April 2020 |