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Why can't a human embryo grow as fast as a mouse embryo?Check out my latest preLight post, where I cover some interesting research on metabolism in embryonic development.
October 30, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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“It’s just my slow metabolism!”, said the human embryo.

Check out @alexneaverson.bsky.social's post, covering a #preprint that links one missing enzyme to our sluggish embryonic #development. @gabbov.bsky.social et al. @mdiazcuadros.bsky.social

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A genetically encoded redox bottleneck constrains human developmental rate - preLights
“It’s just my slow metabolism!”, said the human embryo. This new preprint links one missing enzyme to our sluggish embryonic development.
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October 29, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Holding on for dear function: how microtubule networks influence mitochondrial morphology and function.

Sharvari Pitke covers the latest work of Nida Ul Fatima & colleagues @vaishananth.bsky.social #preprint #CellBio

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Mitochondrial morphology and function are tuned by microtubule association - preLights
Holding on for dear function: How microtubule networks influence mitochondrial morphology and function
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October 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
mazhuka.bsky.social
🇪🇸: En grupo Vertex Bake Sets tiene herramientas para trabajar con el almacenamiento de información de iluminación precalculada. Prelight es la primera de estas herramientas en Maya.

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MAYA - 02 Modelado - 56 Menú Mesh Display (Parte 11): Prelight
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October 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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They said flies could develop without centrosomes. The embryos may beg to differ.

Jeny Jose highlights a recent #preprint from Beatriz González & colleagues @araujolabub.bsky.social – post includes an insightful authors’ response

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Centrosome Loss Alters Axonal and Muscle Development - preLights
They said flies could develop without centrosomes. The embryos may beg to differ.
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October 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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Cellquant: a vibecoder’s guide to image analysis

Abani Neferkara & colleagues #PincusLab #UChicago assemble and deploy an LLM–assisted, Python–based script for biological image segmentation. #preprint

#preLight by Theodora Stougiannou ⬇️
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Illustrated workflow of the CellQuant image-analysis pipeline. Microscopy images are processed through cell segmentation, puncta detection using Laplacian-of-Gaussian filtering and Otsu thresholding, and per-cell feature extraction, generating 45 non-redundant cellular metrics. Nuclear segmentation is available as an optional step.
October 20, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Combining HiExM with single-organelle segmentation & machine learning reveals cellular patterns beyond the average. #BoyerLab

@dina-kabbara.bsky.social: "What stands out to me most is how often a bulk average concealed meaningful differences..."

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HiExM Enables Scalable Mapping of Organelle Morphology and Spatial Heterogeneity - preLights
HiExM meets AI, revealing cellular patterns beyond the average.
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October 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Intrinsic3D, a new imaging approach that allows researchers to image entire cells + tissues in 3D at single-molecule resolution, making large-volume super-resolution imaging faster & easier.

@kanishka03.bsky.social covers work #StJohnstonLab - #preLight ⬇️
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October 15, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors. #PlantBiology

@karimaelm.bsky.social covers a recent #preprint by Raúl Denia-Mondéjar et al. @noelponte.bsky.social
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Brassinosteroid receptors reveal conserved features of exon-embedded gene regulation - preLights
Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors.
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October 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
blockreeldao.bsky.social
Lighting Prelight Strategy: When It's Worth It and How to Plan It https://blockreeldao...
Prelight Strategy for Film Sets: Planning, To... | BlockReel
Learn when prelight is worth the investment for your production and how to plan it. Covers workflows, equipment specs, grip integration, and common pitfalls.
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October 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Lighting Prelight Strategy: When It's Worth It and How to Plan It: A practical guide to prelight strategy covering when it's worth the investment, planning workflows, essential tools, grip integration, and common pitfalls that derail shoot days. #PrelightStrategy #FilmProduction #LightingDesign
Lighting Prelight Strategy: When It's Worth It and How to Plan It
A practical guide to prelight strategy covering when it's worth the investment, planning workflows, essential tools, grip integration, and common pitfalls that derail shoot days.
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October 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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When a neuron’s waste is too big to carry home, microglia pinch it off from the outside – in a process called skoupocytosis, from the Greek for garbage.

@chandrrrika.bsky.social covers a #preprint from Renee Pepper et al. @watanabelab.bsky.social
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Microglia extract neuronal proteolytic organelles via skoupocytosis - preLights
When a neuron’s waste is too big to carry home, microglia pinch it off from the outside – in a process called skoupocytosis, from the Greek for garbage.
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October 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
blockreeldao.bsky.social
Lighting & Grip Masterclass: Prelight Strategy to Set Execution: Filmmaking is an art of intentionality, where every visual element serves the narrative. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the meticulous craft of lighting and grip. From the subtle… #Filmmaking #Cinematography #LightingDesign
Lighting & Grip Masterclass: Prelight Strategy to Set Execution
Filmmaking is an art of intentionality, where every visual element serves the narrative. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the meticulous craft of lighting and grip. From the subtle sculpting of a character's face to the grand illumination of an epic landscape, light shapes e...
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October 7, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Crouching AI, hidden connections

Theodora Stougiannou covers work introducing an AI-based semantics workflow to facilitate data integration across heterogeneous databases. #preprint James McLaughlin et al. @helenparkinson.bsky.social #OpenScience

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AI semantics for biomedical data integration - preLights
Crouching AI, hidden connections; The preprint authors assemble and deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-based semantics workflow to facilitate data integration across heterogeneous databases.
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October 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Lighting & Grip Masterclass: Prelight Strategy to Set Execution https://blockreeldao...
Filmmaking Lighting & Grip Guide: Prelight to... | BlockReel
Master cinematic lighting & grip for filmmakers: Prelight strategy, power distro, rigging safety, motivated lighting. Templates + handoffs for indie/pro crews.
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October 2, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Did one gene family help plants colonise land?

Zamar et al. @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social show how a land-plant-specific enzyme family, p-GPATs, is involved in two different processes: cuticle formation & arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
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A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization - preLights
A land-plant-specific p-GPAT family links cuticle formation and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, suggesting that one biochemical innovation may have helped early plants adapt to life on land.
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September 30, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Two #preprints detail new & complementary ways to match mechanical readouts from tissues to OMICs.

#preLight by @fadelvalle.bsky.social - includes a discussion with the author teams @lindithium.bsky.social @huanting-ong.bsky.social
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MechanoMaST – a multimodal pipeline for spatially registering mechanical and transcriptomic tissue data; Paired-surface spatial mechanomics links tissue stiffness maps to spatial transcriptomics - pre...
Separated by only a few hours! These two novel preprints detail new and complementary ways to match mechanical readouts from tissues to OMICs
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September 29, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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I’ve been involved in a couple of reviews and gratified that the handling editor thought they were worth paying for. After a recent #preprint on Fast&Fair, I took the opportunity to write my next preLight on the scheme and my experience of it (2/4): prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...
Expanded implementation of Fast & Fair paid peer review reduces time to first decision without reducing review quality in a biology journal; Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasib...
Paying peer reviewers: It's not Science Fiction
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September 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Watch the story of foregut folding unfold 👀

Ruoheng Li highlights recent work identifying and quantitatively describing the stereotypical sequence of foregut involution. #preprint @jennykre.bsky.social #McDoleLab

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Choreographed morphogenetic events underlie early foregut development in the mouse embryo - preLights
Watch the story of foregut folding unfold
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September 24, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Paying peer reviewers: it's not Science Fiction

As a postdoc involved in Fast & Fair peer review @biologyopen.bsky.social, @jontytownson.bsky.social reflects on what paid peer review could mean for the future of research publishing #NPAW2026

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Expanded implementation of Fast & Fair paid peer review reduces time to first decision without reducing review quality in a biology journal; Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasib...
Paying peer reviewers: It's not Science Fiction
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September 21, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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To see, or not to see... 👀

@lochlanw.bsky.social highlights recent work showing that fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy. #neuroscience #preprint @fleyes.bsky.social

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Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions - preLights
To see, or not to see: fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy
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September 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
lochlanw.bsky.social
excited to share my first preLight summarizing such an exciting preprint! from Tjalda Falt et al. @fleyes.bsky.social

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Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions - preLights
To see, or not to see: fruit flies selectively suppress visual input via electrical transmission of an efference copy
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September 17, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Reading recommendation for #PeerReviewWeek

@ethanewe.bsky.social highlights a study that looks at 115,000+ PLOS papers to explore who chooses open peer review and whether openness relates to article quality. #preprint Adrian Barnett & Matt Spick

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Who chooses open peer review and is it an indicator of article quality? An observational study of PLOS journals - preLights
Opening up peer review
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September 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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SPOT(-TER) the difference: spatial proteomics painted by (TMT-channel) numbers

Felix Kraus from @philipplange.bsky.social's lab highlights recent work from the #ZhangLab which represents a promising implementation of spatial #proteomics #preprint

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SPOTTER: Automated Tissue-Barcoding Platform for Spatial Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics - preLights
SPOT(-TER) the difference: spatial proteomics painted by (TMT-channel) numbers
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September 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Hand in hand - E-cadherin with E-cadherin 🤝
Supported by @girishkalephd.bsky.social, Chiara Hüttner highlights work showing that the number of E-cadherin connections influences morphogenetic tissue movements. #preprint Lerchbaumer et al. #TepassLab
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E-cadherin clustering as a regulator of morphogenesis - preLights
Hand in hand - E-cadherin with E-cadherin: The number of E-cadherin connections influences morphogenetic tissue movements.
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September 14, 2026 at 11:11 AM