Our Centre for Regenerative Medicine weekly journal club have generated their first #PreLight! Congrats to all contributors 😍

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/the-lipidomic-architecture-of-the-mouse-brain/

#PreLights

My newest #Prelights article highlights a #preprint by B. R. Baisla et al. (2025) and their search for morphological #prezygotic #barriers to reduce #hybridization among the species complex of #Nasonia, #parasitoid wasps. Male genital morphology apparently does not prevent hybridization, pre-mating #barriers are still unknown.
©#StefanFWirth 2026

Reference

Prelights article by Stefan F. Wirth:
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/morphological-variations-in-external-genitalia-do-not-explain-the-interspecific-reproductive-isolation-in-nasonia-species-complex-hymenoptera-pteromalidae/

Pics
1) public domain, M.E.Clark, 2006,
2) ©S.F.Wirth, AI illustration

My #Prelights #article about the #coldtolerant and #freezeavoiding #stonefly #Allocapnia #pygmaea living as adult during Nova Scotian (#Canada) #winters and being protected biochemical by #cryoprotectants.
#Evolution #adaptations #biodiversity #ecology
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Prelights
S.F. Wirth (2025)
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/the-cold-tolerance-of-an-adult-winter-active-stonefly-how-allocapnia-pygmaea-plecoptera-capniidae-avoids-freezing-in-nova-scotian-winters/

#Preprint
Jona Lopez Pedersen et al. (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.05.668668

#Photo
Bob Henricks, 2013, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

July in preprints, the CellBio edition, is out now on the preLights website.

Thanks to Girish Kale, Matthew Davies, Barbora Knotkova and Sristilekha Nath for their contributions.

Have a look:

https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/july-in-preprints-the-cellbio-edition/

#PrePrints #Academia #Publishing #Science #Biology #Research #CellBio #PreLights

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