Another #spotLights episode just aired! 🎙️

We’re launching our #biologists100 conference series with @richardsever, discussing:

✅ The launch of openRxiv
✅ The role of preprints in supporting early-career researchers
✅ What’s ahead for scholarly publishing & peer review

Recorded live in Liverpool, March 2025 by Jonathan Townson & Reinier Prosee.

Listen now 🎧⬇️
https://youtu.be/L5O2mDnqDUI?si=yruYx8PMhypuX5VF

#OpenScience #preprints #AcademicPublishing #biology #ECRs

Bring bacteria back! 🦠 The influence of microbial manipulation on sugar kelp development.

Jasmine Talevi covers work from Jungsoo Park & team (#ParfreyLab) that highlights the fundamental role microbiomes play across diverse biological systems. #preprint

#preLight ⬇️ 👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/an-experimental-test-of-the-influence-of-microbial-manipulation-on-sugar-kelp-saccharina-latissima-supports-the-the-core-influences-host-function-hypothesis/

#biology #ecology #kelp #microbiome #microbes #bacteria

Less is more: How high levels of estrogen lead to memory problems after trauma.

Jimeng Li highlights work from the group of Tallie Baram. #preprint #neuroscience

Check out the preLight! ⬇️ 👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/unexpected-mechanisms-of-sex-specific-memory-vulnerabilities-to-acute-traumatic-stress/

#memory #trauma #PTSD

The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the… frog? – the not-so bite-sized mystery of frog tooth re-evolution 🐸🦷

Check out this really fun post prepared by Ryan Harrison, covering recent work from the #FraserLab. #preprint

#preLight ⬇️ 👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tooth-development-in-frogs-implications-for-the-re-evolution-of-lost-mandibular-teeth-and-the-origin-of-a-morphological-innovation/

#DevBio #teeth #frogs #evolution

An intriguing twist! TDP-43 (linked to #ALS) keeps RNAs out of neuronal projections by making them unstable, preventing RNA buildup in neurites. #preprint from the #TaliaferroLab

Another excellent post prepared by Felipe Del Valle Batalla 🙌

#preLight ⬇️ 👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tdp-43-directly-inhibits-rna-accumulation-in-neurites-through-modulation-of-rna-stability/

#biology #neuroscience #neurites #RNA

Listen to your gut – lessons from the brain. 🧠

Dang M. Nguyen & team (#BilboLab) demonstrate how prenatal environmental stressors disrupt gut immune cells, impair synaptic pruning in the gut + contribute to neurodevelopmental issues. #preprint

Another great #preLight by Jeny Jose ⬇️ 👀

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/prenatal-exposure-to-environmental-stressors-alters-gut-macrophage-development-and-gastrointestinal-function-of-male-offspring/

#biology #immunology #neuroscience #DevBio #gut #brain #highlight

Stalling the stress response: chronic low-level stress inhibits stress granule formation via translation elongation impairment.

New post from Mohammed Jalloh #UniversityofArizona highlighting work from the Ivanov lab. #preprint

#preLight ⬇️👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/chronic-stress-antagonizes-formation-of-stress-granules/

#biology #preprint #stress #StressGranules #translation #biochemistry

It’s about time to share the March #CellBio preprint picks! #preList

8 preLighters teamed up to curate a preprint reading lists across different categories in cell biology, including cancer biology, cell migration, cell signalling and mechanosensing & more

Check out the preList! ⬇️ 👀
https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/march-in-preprints-the-cellbio-edition/

#SciComm #biology #community #ReadingList #bioRxiv #preprints

We bumped into #preLighter and former intern (also @the_node & @focalplane_jcs) Ryan Harrison. 🙌 #biologists100

Here, he presented a beautiful (pink 🤩) poster detailing his work on cell organisation & 3D shape emergence in a posterior neuruloid system. ✨

#organoids #development #ECRs #preprints