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Posted by Helen Zenner, on 13 May 2024
FocalPlane features… open microscopy and accessible workflow Open microscopy projects are flourishing with researchers contributing new technology and accessible workflows with the hope of democratising access to microscopy. In our ...Posted by Sharna Lunn, on 10 May 2024
When I was 25 and having a particularly bad day, crying to my mum about how exhausted and in pain I was during my studies, she recalled a passing comment ...Posted by J Guillermo Sanchez, on 18 March 2024
The road of academia is a pretty established ladder, PhD, then postdoc, then faculty. I am approaching the end of my PhD and the opportunities seemed endless. At least, when ...Posted by Anna Czarkwiani, on 9 February 2024
To continue our efforts in tackling difficult aspects of the academic work environment, we organized another seminar at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (TU Dresden) to discuss the ...Posted by Dina Mikimoto, on 15 January 2024
All flavours of a conference – in-person, online, or maybe hybrid? Thinking back to my first conference, it was a confusing experience for me. It happened well into my PhD ...Posted by Kirsty Ferguson, on 10 January 2024
There are traditional measures of success in the research community, but should they be the only ways we define our success? Kirsty Ferguson writes a poetic response to Mayank Chugh’s ...Posted by Valerie Tornini, on 18 December 2023
In this piece, I reflect on my recent scientific work as a lesson on how reductive definitions can overlook some of the most impactful discoveries and individuals in a collective.Posted by Reinier Prosee, on 7 December 2023
Recently, one of the preLights Ambassadors, Martin Estermann, launched a new webinar series that discusses the journey of a preprint in becoming a journal publication. As part of this initiative, ...Posted by the Node, on 24 November 2023
How was the most famous long noncoding RNA in mammals discovered? This was the subject of the round-table session “30 years of Xist/XIST discovery”, held during the 2023 X-inactivation conference ...Posted by the Node, on 19 September 2023
Have you ever had to interview someone for an article? What are the considerations before, during and after the interview? A group of active members of the three community sites ...