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Benjamin Swedlund @benswedlund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even wonder how the leopard got its spots? I certainly did, so much that I tried to recreate similar patterns in a dish! Hear about the results from my postdoctoral work in this #spotLight. Many thanks to @reinierprosee.bsky.social for putting this together. And yes, even the soundtrack is homemade!

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

At the #SynSci2026 meeting in Glasgow for a dedicated #ECR event. Ran into Filipe Nunes Vicente - always such a pleasure to bump into #preLighters at scientific meetings #community If anyone (attending this meeting) is interested in joining us, please ask me about @prelights.bsky.social #preprints

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Really enjoyed being involved in this. María has got a real talent for creating these short, engaging videos. ⭐️ Check out her latest #spotLight below

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I don’t normally highlight #preprints myself but couldn’t help writing something about this study (reminding me of my own PhD work #SteinerLab) Thanks Jeremy and Harmit for your insightful responses (included in the post) 🙏 please check it out ⬇️

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape In this Editorial, @reinierprosee.bsky.social, @amjeve.uk and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social announce a call for Preprint Editors in Development. Apply by 30 March. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Had so much fun creating this Short together with Teodora. As she put it: “The video is a condensed summary of the main [#preprint] findings, sprinkled with some beautiful immunofluorescence images and behind-the-scenes from the lab. Just perfect for late-evening, productive doomscrolling 😊”

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Dr Samantha Seah @seahsamantha.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Delighted to speak with @reinierprosee.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social about the work that we do at the Journal of Emerging Investigators. Check it out here!

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I was asked to #PeerReview a timely perspective article now published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social. As a result of this activity, a tree was protected in the #ForestOfBiologists. 🌳 Such a fun, bio-positive and important initiative from @biologists.bsky.social 🙌 forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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....

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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...

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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 🏳️‍🌈🔬

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spotLights Ep 16: preLights in conversation with Katelyn Cooper

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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!

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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!

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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spotLights Ep 9: preLights in conversation with Jennifer Richens

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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...

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spotLights Ep 8: preLights in conversation with Richard Sever

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Jonathan Townson @jontytownson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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

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Jonathan Townson @jontytownson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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).

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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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...

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The Foldscope: my portal to another world - FocalPlane

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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! 👀

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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...

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Early 2025 preprints – the genetics & genomics edition - preLights

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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...

Phylogenetic map of wildlife trade; graphs showing overlap with other traits like synanthropy; path analysis showing impact on zoonotic host status

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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...

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Chromosomal instability in human trophoblast stem cells and placentas - preLights

The trophoblast: where instability is intrinsic

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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...

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A ChatGPT Assisted Reading Protocol for Undergraduate Research Students - preLights

Marcus Sambar & team explore how ChatGPT can be used as a scientific reading guide for undergraduate research students.

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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...

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Germplasm stability in zebrafish requires maternal Tdrd6a and Tdrd6c - preLights

Maternally deposited proteins Tdrd6a and Tdrd6c act redundantly to regulate Bucky ball activity and ensure the retention of germplasm in zebrafish embryos

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Researcher to Reader Conference @r2rconf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🎵 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 🔎 🧪

A bright, yellow, elongated shape with hair-like projections coming out at the top and bottom. Embedded in a mesh of fine hair-like structures.

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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! ⬇️🙌

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

Rat hippocampal neurons in culture labeled for ßII-spectrin (blue), ßIV-spectrin (yellow) and map2 (orange)

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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...

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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...

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Motor Clustering Enhances Kinesin-driven Vesicle Transport - preLights

Teamwork makes the dream work - motor organisation influences the efficiency of cargo transport in cells.

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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚨 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

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Pith cell responses to low red: far-red light in dicot stems

In dense canopies light becomes a limiting factor for plant growth. Many plants respond to neighbor cues by growing taller to improve light capture, a phenomenon known as the shade avoidance syndrome ...

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Felipe del Valle Batalla @fadelvalle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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...

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A depth map of visual space in the primary visual cortex - preLights

How do animals sense depth? Work from Znamenskiy group (@petrznam) reveals 3D depth-selective responses in the primary visual cortex.

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Felipe del Valle Batalla @fadelvalle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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...

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Deciphering the nanoscale architecture of presynaptic actin using a micropatterned presynapse-on-glass model - preLights

An arranged bumpy road to study the presynapse: a novel setup to explore neuronal architecture

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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...

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Cellular signalling protrusions enable dynamic distant contacts in spinal cord neurogenesis - preLights

Notching it up a bit: distant cells can receive Notch signalling through cellular protrusions in the developing spinal cord.

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Dorien Pastoors @dpastoors.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Reinier Prosee @reinierprosee.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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...

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Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning - preLights

Stepping back in time: using machine learning to classify dinosaur footprints 🐾🦖

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