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preLighters’ choice - October’s handpicked preprints

Posted by , on 12 November 2025

Concise preprint highlights from the October preprint list, prepared by the preLighter community. Quick reads from early-career researchers to help working scientists spot the month’s most exciting biological preprints.

The Node writing challenge 

Posted by , on 30 October 2025

During September, we ran a writing challenge on the Node, giving our contributors a chance to win £200. The winner of the challenge was Umaymah Ahmad with the post ‘It’s ...

Join us as an intern working across the Node, preLights & FocalPlane

Posted by , on 26 February 2025

The Company of Biologists is looking for one or more interns, through the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes, to work on our community sites – the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. ...

Catch up on the preLights webinar series: From preprint to publication

Posted by , on 23 January 2024

In line with preLights’ ongoing postLights initiative, one of the preLights Ambassadors, Martin Estermann, has decided to create and host a new webinar series focusing on the journey of the preprint. This ...

The Node, preLights and FocalPlane bring you our end-of-year quiz!

Posted by , on 1 December 2023

As we reach the final month of 2023, the Node, preLights and FocalPlane have created an end-of-year quiz to share some festive fun with all of you. Thank you to ...

preLights’ 5th Birthday webinar: A career discussion with preLights alumni

Posted by , on 7 March 2023

Our sister community site preLights will host a career discussion webinar to celebrate its 5th birthday. It will feature talks given by preLights alumni who have taken a range of ...

Development presents... preLights third birthday special

Posted by , on 26 January 2021

    The next webinar in our Development presents… series will be a little different: rather than being chaired by a Development editor, the preLights team will be in control. ...

EDBC 2019: preprints workshop

Posted by , on 21 November 2019

For the first time in 20 years, researchers from across the continent gathered for the European Developmental Biology Congress in Alicante, Spain (October 23-26 2019). Fortunately, we won’t have to ...

preLists – charting the waters of the preprint sea

Posted by , on 24 May 2019

We are happy to announce the launch of preLists, a new initiative within preLights where early-career researchers curate lists of preprints for the community. These lists follow two main themes: ...

This month in preLights - August

Posted by , on 5 September 2018

Welcome to our monthly summary of developmental biology (and related) preLights.   preLighters are early-career researchers who select and highlight preprints which they feel are interesting for the life-science community. ...

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