preLights is a #preprint highlighting service—supported by @biologists.bsky.social—encouraging #ECRs to highlight and discuss preprints that spark interest or debate within the biological #community. #SciComm Interested in joining? Our 'call for preLighters' is open for another week! ⬇️👀

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

📢 Join us next week for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.

Anatomy and habitat shape the oxygen sensing machinery of flowering plants | new preprint from Licausi lab @syno2xis.bsky.social #hypoxia #N-degron @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another preprint highlight was posted by Kanishka Parashar! Read how paclitaxel can target cancer cells by destabilising nuclear integrity in interphase - #preprint from @matteoall.bsky.social & team #preprint #preLight ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/p...

Our latest monthly #preprint list is out! Explore our trawl for #DevBio and #stemcell biology preprints that came out in August. 🔍 thenode.biologists.com/august-in-pr...

Have you seen the latest preLights? 👀 In one, Theodora Stougiannou highlights recent work from the @balciunaslab.bsky.social Epicardial pathways to a regenerating heart: A #zebrafish model 🐟 ❤️⬇️ #preprint preLight: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...

🧪In a post for the SciELO in Perspective blog, Jordan F. Sampar e Lilian N. Calò present the @prelights.bsky.social preprint server, formed by young researchers to evaluate preprints and post comments online, which function as post-publication peer review. blog.scielo.org/en/2025/09/1...

Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video! Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social #peerreview #preprint #scipub

Shreya Pramanik was the joint competition winner. Watch this video on @prelights.bsky.social as Shreya talks about her current work, career so far and interest in #scicomm. prelights.biologists.com/news/introdu...

What's the role of MCL1 in chemoresistance? A new preLight from @kanishka03.bsky.social highlighting a #preprint from Kylin Emhoff, @jcoker10.bsky.social & Jan Joseph Melenhorst challenging the concept that MCL1 promotes chemoresistance from the nucleus. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

🧪Em post para o blog SciELO em Perspectiva, Jordan F. Sampar e Lilian N. Calò apresentam o servidor de preprints @prelights.bsky.social, formado por jovens pesquisadores para avaliarem preprints e postar os comentários on-line. blog.scielo.org/blog/2025/09...

The nucleus doesn’t measure length. It follows the path that leads to growth An exciting #preLight by Jeny Jose about nucleus positioning covers the preprint from Jessica Orr and Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social . Check it out!

August in Preprints – Cell Biology Edition This CellBio #preList is yet another great team effort! Many thanks Vibha and Matthew Davies for putting it together! #preLighters #community #ECRs #PrePrints #Publishing #Biology #Research #CellBio #PreLights

preLighters go live! A light and lively face-to-face conversation between the preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh and the researchers probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez will be hosted at the @focalplane.bsky.social webinar. 4 Sept, 14.00-15.00 BST Tune in!

Thank you very much @prelights.bsky.social and uMontreal Neuro team for coosing and covering our preprint.

Psilocybin restructures brain activity depending on the sensory context in which it is taken Read this new #preLight by uMontreal Neuro preLighters Loïk Holdrinet, Nour Eltaani and Emma Clini talking about the #preprint of Devon Stoliker, @adeelrazi.bsky.social and the team.

Sign up now for our #FocalPlaneFeatures webinar with talks on the role of T cell protrusions in CAR signalling from @probablycarmen.bsky.social and how RhoA activity impacts ageing in #StemCells from Eva Mejia-Ramirez. #cellbiology #signalling #microscopy #devbio us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

Our preprint has been highlighted by @prelights.bsky.social and @jontytownson.bsky.social ! 🙏 Huge thanks for helping us share our work with this wonderful community

One week to go! Register now for our #FocalPlaneFeatures webinar with @prelights.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY: NASW is offering travel grants for Indigenous journalists and communicators to attend the ScienceWriters2025 conference in Chicago Nov 7-9—up to $2,000 to help cover costs and expenses. Learn more and apply: sciencewriters2025.o... Deadline: Sept 3

I have written another #preLight post, featuring the first work from the Boukhatmi lab. Always fun to read a #fly paper, especially with #microscopy too! Check it out if you like injury repair and tissue/ECM remodeling. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i... #Repair #ImmuneCells #preprint #ECM

Something SPARC’d between us and left me Breathless: Haemolymph cells turn on repair in the Drosophila tracheal system An exciting #preLight by @jontytownson.bsky.social talks about the work of Nourhene Ammar, Hadi Boukhatmi and the team.

Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟 @eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA

#FocalPlaneFeatures meets @prelights.bsky.social @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh have picked 2 fantastic #cellbio preprints & will be presenting their preLights alongside research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez. Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/20/f...

This JEB ‪‪@jexpbiol.bsky.social Perspective explores why preprinting is not a common practice within comparative physiology:

You can find the first JEB additional language abstract by Cameron Nemeth and colleagues in #Hawaiian accompanying their paper, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria A new #prelight of Alejandra Leffer's group talks about the preprint by @margheritac17.bsky.social , and the team.

When kainate receptors go wrong: GRIK2 mutations connects seizures with wide-ranging behavioral changes. Check out @pushpinder2002.bsky.social 's first #preLight, which talks about the work by Brynna T. Webb and the team.

Open science can sometimes been seen as a risk but IME there are definitely people out there doing research more openly to advance science despite that. 1/4

@ethanewe.bsky.social is one of our preLights ambassadors for 2024-25. He is also the initiator of spotLights, an interview series that shines a spotlight on cutting-edge biological research and the minds behind it. You can hear him speaking in episode #5 here: prelights.biologists.com/spotlights/

We are committed to improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all our activities. Click on the image to read why we have adopted the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles, and are signatories of the Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing. @c4disc.bsky.social

An immunosuppressive B cell subset has been identified in renal cell carcinoma. Congrats to our new preLighter, Charis Qi, on her first #preLight, which talks about the #preprint by the @maurilab.bsky.social !

‪July in #Preprints – the CellBio edition - is out. Thanks to @girishkalephd.bsky.social, Matthew Davies, Barbora Knotkova, and Sristilekha Nath for their contributions. Have a look! 🍵

Genetic gatekeepers of gametogenesis? TET proteins jointly jam germline specification, synergistically steering cells towards somatic fates. @justingutbio.bsky.social's new #preLight talks about the work of @r-pantier.bsky.social and the team. Have a look!

Excited to announce I recently highlighted another preprint for @prelights.bsky.social. In this preprint, @r-pantier.bsky.social and co-authors from the Chambers Lab at the University of Edinburgh find that the TET proteins act together to help mammalian cells specify into somatic lineages.

Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager? If you're interested in #SciComm and passionate about #DevBio, apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social team. Find out more about what the role entails: bit.ly/4otQ2GL #JobOpportunity

Cancer cells that survive, thrive: capillary constrictions as a trigger of mechanotransduction in cancer progression. Check out this #preLight by Sristilekha Nath, which talks about the work by @gsilvani.bsky.social, @kriskilian.bsky.social and the team.

Agricultural knowledge gaps; or pluralism, depicting, and participation as a route to climate adaptation. A #preLight by @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social, our community manager this summer, talks about the #preprint by Kristina Blennow and the team.

Two is better than one: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells can become resistant to treatment with autophagy inhibitors, but combination with pyrimidine analogues shows promise. New #preLight by Hannah Pletcher covers the #preprint of Suzanne Dufresne and colleagues. Have a look!

‘These signals, they’re made for jogging’: Nodal and FGF signals regulate early zebrafish cardiac morphogenetic events and lead to asymmetry in migration patterns that result in cardiac jogging and cardiac looping. Theodora Stougiannou #preLights the #preprint by @rburdine1.bsky.social's team.

And of course, our recent #sciart graphical abstracts wouldn't exist without @sonhita.bsky.social's workshop on visual storytelling we've hosted recently on preLights 🖌️

Better late than never, I am sharing the last #spotlight interviews I did with @prelights.bsky.social at #biologists100 in Liverpool. It was fantastic to get different perspectives on preprints and the publishing world, as well as to hear a bit about the cutting-edge research being presented. (1/5)

Flip a switch, control cell adhesion! Light-controlled talin, a powerful tool to study how cells sense and respond to their environment. Another #sciArt #preLight features graphical abstracts by Barbora Knotkova and Sonhita Chakraborty and presents the work of Ryosuke Nishimura and the team💫

~50% of indivduals with ALS have behavior and cognitive decline, but this is not known why; this study explores a biochemical mechanism underlying these impairments. Check out Taylor Stolberg's #preLight of the work by Raphaelle Cassel et al.

Shaping the postnatal brain - how the grooves of our brain continue to develop after birth. A new #SciArt #preLight features graphical abstracts by Jeny Jose and Jawdat Sandakly. It highlights the work of Sarah Tung, Vaidehi Natu and @kalanitgs.bsky.social 's research group.

Many thanks to Ruoheng Li and @prelights.bsky.social for featuring our preprint!

Spurring and Siloing: Identity Navigation in Scientific Writing Among Asian Early-Career Researchers A new #preLight by Jeny Jose spotlights the #preprint by @devonrgoss.bsky.social and Sarah C. Fankhauser's group, which looked into academic writing as an expression of academic research culture.

Seeing and (not) believing! On the role of hypoblast in primitive streak induction. In her second #preLight, Ruoheng Li covers the #preprint by @aurelienvilledieu.bsky.social and the @jeromegros.bsky.social's research team.