My + colleagues #prelights #article about the acceptance of #LGBTQ+ biologists in #biologicalsciences based on a #preprint. #Researchers from Arizona (USA) conducted this first specific #survey, coming to the conclusion that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals now feel largely accepted in the biological sciences, unlike about ten years ago. #Gendernonconfirming people are still #lessaccepted.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

R. Prosee, R. Harrison, S. F. Wirth (2025)
https://biologists.social/@preLights/114670174770964423

An interview with preLighter Meng Zhu

Read about Meng's experience, and join the community today.

https://www.biologists.com/stories/an-interview-with-prelighter-meng-zhu/

#preLights #Community #Research #Biology #Science #Journal #Writing #Communication

New #preLights post from Vibha Singh! 👀

In this highlighted #preprint, the research team (#NalbantLab) introduces a powerful new approach to studying mechanobiological regulation in cancer. In doing so, they describe how tumour cells manage to “pull” themselves away from the tumour bulk during invasion.

Read the #preLight here 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/optogenetic-stimulation-of-lbc-gef-mediated-rho-activity-dynamics-promotes-cell-invasion/

#CancerResearch #Optogenetics #Mechanobiology #TumourInvasion

We’re capturing the energy of #biologists100 by walking around with a polaroid frame, highlighting the incredible early-career researchers at the conference! ✨

We’re kicking things off with @JontyTownson, the #preLights conference reporter, who is uncovering the stories behind the #preprints being presented.

If you're at the meeting, please come say hi + get your snapshot! 📸

#community #selfies #imaging #organelles

My #preLights #article about a preprint dealing with the role of color #polymorphisms in woodland #salamanders to trigger faster #speciation and phenotypic #evolution rates. See also my former post. Photo creative Commons see linked article.
#StefanFWirth Berlin

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/loss-of-a-morph-is-associated-with-asymmetric-character-release-in-a-radiation-of-woodland-salamanders/?share=mastodon

I’m really excited to attend the @Co_Biologists Biologists@100 conference next week. With @preLights, I’m collating a preList of all the preprints at the conference. If you’re coming with a #preprint of your own, make sure I don’t miss it by sending it to me here: https://forms.gle/JYiTFj8iSUcTo5o69

#preprint #biologists100 #preLights

Three new postLights have recently been added! 👀

postLight = journey from #preprint to peer-reviewed paper. 🛣️

In the first postLight, Ankita Walvekar revisits work from Cerys Manning & team highlighted on #preLights last year.

Now published in @BiologyOpen 🙌

#postLight ⬇️ 👀

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/cellular-signalling-protrusions-enable-dynamic-distant-contacts-in-spinal-cord-neurogenesis/

Adriani Felix just posted two #preLights as part of a wonderful #preprint review initiative led by Marcus Oliveira #UFRJ

1️⃣ Adriani covers work from the Skidmore group, presenting BeHepI as a valuable tool for heparin quality control and structural analysis. Work that paves the way for safer and more effective blood thinners.

#preLight: https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/enzymatic-access-to-the-rare-%ce%b4ua-1%e2%86%924-glc-3-6-n-sulfated-heparin-disaccharide-implications-for-heparin-quality-control/

#heparin #heparinase #biochemistry #medicine #anticoagulant #therapy

Two new #preLights to kick off #2025 🎊

1⃣ The trophoblast: where instability is intrinsic.

This #preprint is the first demonstration that aneuploidy is a typical feature of trophoblast stem cells & may confer cells with a developmental advantage during placental development.

Written by Carly Guiltinan ⬇️👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/trophoblast-aneuploidy/

#biology #StemCells #development #DevBio #placenta

Aurora B actively drives abscission in pluripotent mouse Embryonic Stem Cells via the stabilisation of microtubule bridges.

Ines Jmel-Boyer covers a recent preprint from the Chaigne Lab on #preLights! 👀 ⬇️

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/aurora-b-controls-microtubule-stability-to-regulate-abscission-dynamics-in-stem-cells-2/

#preprint #biology #StemCells #pluripotency #microtubules

The cytoskeleton talks back and has a bi-directional influence on cell polarity.

“The results presented in this [#preprint] have significant implications for numerous research fields, ranging from basic cell biology to therapeutic development.”

Check out the latest #preLights post from Vibha Singh ⬇️

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/complementary-cytoskeletal-feedback-loops-control-signal-transduction-excitability-and-cell-polarity-v2/

#biology #CellMigration #actin #polarity #cytoskeleton

How flies get used to the smell of death 💨🪰

@silkesachse & team show brain changes and behavioral adaptation in Drosophila to a highly repulsive odor. #preprint

Check out this excellent
#preLights post from Timothy W. Schwanitz!

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/experience-dependent-plasticity-of-a-highly-specific-olfactory-circuit-in-drosophila-melanogaster/

#behavior #cognition #neuroscience #neurons #drosophila #ecology

Ever wondered how a species can create new body parts? Walking fish hold the answer! 🐟

Great first #preLights post from Roberto Rodríguez-Morales exploring the collaborative work of Amy Herbert and team #MCB_Harvard #StanfordMed #HHMINews #MBLScience.

Check it out! #preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/the-genetic-basis-of-novel-trait-gain-in-walking-fish/

#preprint #development #biology #evolution #genetics

"Unraveling cellular dance”: Rho directs edge retractions, ERMs lead the rhythm. 🎶

Check out the latest #preLights post from Vibha Singh covering a #preprint from the team of Arnold Hayer #BioMcGill. Includes an author response. 🖊️

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/excitable-rho-dynamics-drive-cell-contractions-by-sequentially-inducing-erm-protein-mediated-actin-membrane-attachment-and-actomyosin-contractility/

Two new #preLights posts to kick off 2024.

2️⃣ An insight into the fascinating world of neurodevelopment - histone modifications put the brakes on stem cell potential during organogenesis.

Great #preprint from #EpiGN_Lab, #TreutleinLab, #GrayCampLab & colleagues.

First #preLight by Manuel Lessi 🌟

📜 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/single-cell-epigenomic-reconstruction-of-developmental-trajectories-in-human-neural-organoid-systems-from-pluripotency/

#neuroscience #neurodevelopment #organoids

Two new #preLights to kick off #2024.

1️⃣Nuclear ruptures: no longer BAF-fling?

#SantagataLab and colleagues use multiplexed imaging techniques to capture nuclear atypia in human cancers.

Great preLights post by Jade Chan 🌟

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/2d-and-3d-multiplexed-subcellular-profiling-of-nuclear-instability-in-human-cancer/

#cancer #glioblastoma #imaging #nuclear #nucleus

Hi #ScienceMastodon.

#preLights (https://prelights.biologists.com) is a #preprint highlights service run by the biological #community & supported by #Co_Biologists allowing one to:

🔎 Sift through the high # of preprints.
💡 Highlight new thinking/techniques across the biological sciences.
📝 Comment on preprints.
👥 See comments & opinions of others.

We’ve moved over to our own instance @biologists.social, & hope that you’ll join us there for friendly chats between biologists!

https://biologists.social/about

Meet the #preLightsAmbassadors: Girish Kale.

Girish is currently a #postdoc #COSHeidelberg. He has represented #preLights at several national and international meetings already and is therefore a very natural Ambassador for the platform.

Interview: https://prelights.biologists.com/news/meet-the-prelights-ambassadors-girish-kale/

Did you know that you can join #preLights at any time? 🙌

So if you are an #ECR with an interest in #ScienceWriting, #CommunityBuilding & #preprints, please just send us a message! ✉️

Check out the video below to hear what current #preLighters think & say!👥

Video 🎥: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4r3cUuDls

Unclearing microscopy: seeing human cells directly by eye. 👀

Two more #preLights are now online!

Robert Mahen highlights an amazing #preprint from Ons M’Saad, Michael Shribak & Joerg Bewersdorf #Yale which introduces a promising new technique: #UnclearingMicroscopy

👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/unclearing-microscopy/