In this Editorial, @reinierprosee.bsky.social and @katherine-brown.bsky.social explore the transformation of the preprint landscape since 2013 and how @biologists.bsky.social has adapted to and embraced this (new) way of sharing research. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Hard to remember that just 12 years ago there was no @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and almost no one in the biology community preprinted their work. What a long way we’ve come. @reinierprosee.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about how @biologists.bsky.social embraced the preprint world

So grateful that my partner and I are able to share our parental leave. Today, my part starts! 🍼👨‍🍼 Couldn’t agree more with this piece that recently appeared on #BBCNews: ‘Two weeks of paternity leave is just too little for the 21st Century’! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New #Spotlight episode! @ryanharrison13.bsky.social, Stefan and @reinierprosee.bsky.social talk with Katelyn Cooper, first author of a groundbreaking preprint—the first in-depth analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences. #LGBTinSTEM #preprint 🏳️‍🌈🔬

Such important (and timely) work from Katelyn Cooper & team. Really learned a lot while preparing this post with @ryanharrison13.bsky.social & Stefan! Please keep an eye out for the #spotLights episode (which will appear soon) in which we talk to Katelyn about this #preprint!

Ideal for someone with a passion for science and an interest in how research is communicated and shared. #SciComm If you're interested (or know someone who might be), please do not hesitate to send me a (direct) message!

*Paid internship opportunity* @biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇

Wow — feeling really honoured (and a bit stunned!) to be on this list 😇 #biologists100 So grateful to be part of the #preLights community and to engage with so many extraordinary early-career researchers who continue to inspire and challenge me. #ScienceCommunity #preLights #ECRs

Another #spotLights episode is out! 🎙️ Recorded at the #biologists100 conference, @jontytownson.bsky.social talks to Jenny Richens about the preprint she presented (now published @plosbiology.org), the path to preprinting + the benefits of sharing science early. Listen below ⬇️🎧 youtu.be/eLwGRnBrIaU

What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv? How did biologists embrace preprints? And what's the future of the scientific article? Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...

If I missed a #preprint you presented then you can still let me know here: forms.gle/JYiTFj8iSUcTo5o69 (2/2).

The preList for the @biologists.bsky.social conference #biologists100 is out! With @prelights.bsky.social we compiled the cutting-edge research and exciting preprints that were presented last week Check it out here: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/bio... (1/2).

Nice! Check out this @focalplane.bsky.social post for some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your #FoldScope, from the perspective of another new user focalplane.biologists.com/2025/01/24/t...

Inspired by the talk of Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social at #biologists100, I decided to build the #foldscope on my way home. Amazing example of ways in which we can make science (+the joys of observing nature) more accessible. Time to join the microcosmos community! @teamfoldscope.bsky.social

Had lots of fun representing @prelights.bsky.social together with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our conference #preList + the #spotLights episodes that will appear on preLights over the next few weeks! 👀

If you work in #DevBio & #StemCells, come take a photo with us! Our sister community sites @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social also have their own polaroid frames 👀 ➡️Passionate about #preprints? Go find @reinierprosee.bsky.social ➡️Love #microscopy? Find @helenzsci.bsky.social

Crossing the Pyrenees to attend the BI/CRG International Postdoc Symposium in sunny Barcelona ☀️ #CRGBIpostdocs @crg.eu @babrahaminst.bsky.social Here, I will represent @prelights.bsky.social in a panel discussion on “how to highlight and disseminate your science”. Looking forward to it! 🙌 #SciComm

As we start a new week, please take a quick look at the latest #preList compiled by @ethanewe.bsky.social & Jawdat Sandakly highlighting some exciting, recent #genetics & #genomics #preprints 🙌 Explore their picks of the month! 👀 #preList ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/ear...

Huge analysis out as a preprint today! For every 9 years an animal spends in the wildlife trade, it shares an additional pathogen with humans. Clear long-term impacts based on 40 years of global trade data 🧪😷 biorxiv.org/content/earl...

Two new #preLights to kick off #2025 🎊 1⃣ The trophoblast: where instability is intrinsic. First demonstration that aneuploidy is a feature of trophoblast stem cells & may confer cells with an advantage during placental development. From: Carly Guiltinan ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

2️⃣ Mastering the art of reading science 👩‍🏫 @fxvzquez.bsky.social & team explore how ChatGPT can be used as a scientific reading guide for undergraduate research students. #preprint #preLight from @reinierprosee.bsky.social ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

Maternally deposited proteins Tdrd6a & Tdrd6c regulate Bucky ball activity and ensure the retention of germplasm in zebrafish embryos. 🐟 @justingutbio.bsky.social covers a #preprint from the lab of @reneketting.bsky.social Take a look at the #preLight! ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/g...

Sorry to be late to highlight this, but it's always great when an #R2RConf workshop publishes the results of their collaboration.

🎵 A star, a star, dancing in the night With a tail as big as a kite 🌠 Do you see what I see? Or, what do you think this might be? #ACloserLook 🔎 🧪

preLights at its best: preLighters working together to create monthly preprint reading lists for researchers working in different fields of biology. #Community 🙌

Looking to stay up-to-date on the latest preLights news and highlighted #preprints? Follow @prelights.bsky.social on Bluesky and never miss an update! ⬇️🙌

Some nice neurons for #FluorescenceFriday 😎 This image is also the banner of preLights (prelights.biologists.com), the excellent website of @biologists.bsky.social dedicated to highlighting preprints

Single cells can learn without a brain, but how? Our new preprint from @deeparajan.bsky.social describes a model for habituation in Stentor coeruleus, based on receptor internalization and recycling, along with new experiments inspired by the model. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Teamwork makes the dream work 🙌 Motor organisation influences the efficiency of cargo transport in cells. #preprint from Rui Jiang & colleagues @willhancock.bsky.social Lab #biology #cells #motors #kinesin Check out Sharvari Pitke‘s first #preLight ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

🚨 The Kajala lab proudly presents: the 6th pre-print within a year! 🚨 🌱 Pith cell responses to low red: far-red light in dicot stems 💡🍅🌶️🍆🫘🥦 💻 doi.org/10.1101/2024... 👩‍🔬 Linge Li, Yorrit van de Kaa, Lotte van der Krabben, @ronaldpierik.bsky.social 1/6

go.bsky.app/Tz6SV7j Jump in! If you’re interested in the expanding community of PreLights. @reinierprosee.bsky.social

Check out the excellent post prepared by Gigi & @pheereynolds.bsky.social covering work that studies 3D depth-selective responses in the primary visual cortex. Or, simply put, how do animals sense depth? 👀 #preprint from @petrznam.bsky.social lab #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

As suggested by @ethanewe.bsky.social, I've created a starter pack to bring together #preLighters and anyone interested in #preprints curated by this wonderful group of early-career researchers! 🚀 If you’d like to join, please send me a message.📩 #preLights #ECRs Starter pack: go.bsky.app/Tz6SV7j

And , of course , i will be sharing my prelights here 😄 This is the latest one: The (bumpy) road to investigate synaptic actin . Graphical abstract by Antonia Berger prelights.biologists.com/highlights/d...

Sharing two more #preLights to check out before the weekend starts ⬇️ 👀 Notching it up a bit 🙌 Distant cells can receive Notch signalling through cellular protrusions in the developing spinal cord. #preprint preLight from Ankita Walvekar. #DevBio prelights.biologists.com/highlights/c...

I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know

We’ve talked about gastulation, cilia-related diseases, academic job market, scicomm, irish pubs and more. Check out our episodes here: prelights.biologists.com/spotlights/ @reinierprosee.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Excited to announce a paper capturing the outcomes of an R2R workshop organised with @rosespenfold.bsky.social & @katherine-brown.bsky.social. This paper offers co-created solutions to overcome the key challenges of existing (and future) ECR-publisher initiatives. ⬇️ 👀 doi.org/10.36591/SE-...

First post 🎉 Let me share a great #preLight written by Ryan Harrison who worked with us on the three community sites @biologists.bsky.social over the last months. "Stepping back in time: using machine learning to classify dinosaur footprints 🐾🦖" preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/c...