The most read preLights in 2018
A big thanks to all of you following preLights this year! We were excited to launch in February, are thrilled that the service is building momentum, and are looking forward to introducing new features and preLighters in 2019! Looking back at 260 posts, these were our most viewed: #1…
| Posted on | 31 December 2018 |
preLights at SpotOn London
We were really happy to talk at SpotOn London about our fantastic preLights community and the work they are doing to promote preprints and help scientists by highlighting preprints for them. Our presentation was in the panel 'Open research in practice' where we also heard about other exciting initiatives that…
| Posted on | 5 November 2018 |
Call for new preLighters
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s new preprint highlighting service, has now been running for more than eight months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. As the service is building momentum, we are ready to grow our…
| Posted on | 1 November 2018 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Samantha Seah
Samantha Seah is a PhD student at EMBL, Heidelberg in the lab of Christoph Merten. She trained as a geneticist, and now develops microfluidic technology for antibody screening. We caught up with Samantha to talk about different aspects of science, preprints and preLights. Could you tell us about the…
| Posted on | 26 October 2018 |
preLighter Gautam Dey’s thoughts on preprints
One of our most active preLighters, Gautam Dey, has written about his thoughts on preprints for the blog 'We support preprints'. Read it here.
| Posted on | 6 September 2018 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Heath MacMillan
Heath MacMillan is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. His lab is studying the mechanisms of thermal tolerance in insects and aims to answer questions like ‘Why can one species survive a Canadian winter while the other cannot?’ We caught up with Heath to talk about his research,…
| Posted on | 22 August 2018 |