Preprints in Motion

In this episode, we dive into the challenges of transitioning out of academia and navigating the often frustrating job market. From the realities of lower starting salaries to the impact of AI in recruitment, we discuss what makes job hunting so difficult—and what can be done to make it easier. We also explore how networking, persistence, and strategic career moves can help you land a fulfilling role outside academia.If this episode resonated with you or you’re facing similar challenges, reach out—we’d love to hear your experiences.Submit your question that you’d like us to answer directly (https://www.speakpipe.com/preprints) or contact us via our website. Find a transcript for this episode on our website.If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com. Preprints in Motion is a Rippling Ideas production.Find us on social media: Jonny @JACoates.bsky.Social, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (www.linkedin.com/in/soniagomespereira). The intro and outro music is Back to the Woods by Jason Shaw and is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License. Sound effects used under the standard ZapSplat licence. Fill music is New Lands by Alex-Productions https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic. Creative Commons used under a CC BY 3.0 license.

In this podcast episode, we shall discuss preprints and how they have impacted decisions in the past to award tenure/promotions to scientists from diverse geographies like the USA, Europe, India, and Africa. This is the second episode in the series, featuring Fiona Watt (EMBO).

In this podcast episode, we shall discuss preprints and how they have impacted decisions in the past to award tenure/promotions to scientists from diverse geographies like the USA, Europe, India, and Africa. The episode will feature senior scientists from these geographies, their experience being a part of the decision-making process in awarding tenure/promotion, the hardships, especially the ECRs face in those committees and how their preprints are viewed and assessed and the path forward for a just science environment that promotes open science.

Librarians have the potential to be great advocates for preprints at their institutions and beyond. In this episode, we’ll speak with a librarian/librarians about how they champion preprints in their role/roles, the challenges they encounter, and how open science intersects with librarianship.

This week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Charlotte Odendall @codendall, a Sir Henry Dale Fellow at King’s College London. Join us for a conversation on starting a group with a Fellowship, how martial arts help with stress, and why we all need a friend who tells us “just do it”. Charlotte Odendall: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/odendall-group  This episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Dr. Camila Valenzuela. If you enjoyed this show, then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.   For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/.   Find us on Twitter: Jonny (@JACoates), Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1) Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Thibaut Brunet @thibaut_brunet, a G5 Group Leader at Institut Pasteur. Join us for a conversation on eating spiders, dancing creatures of the ocean, and the challenges of applying for and starting a group in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thibaut Brunet: https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/ This episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Dr. Camila Valenzuela. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/Find us on Twitter: Jonny (@JACoates) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

In the PI’s seat - Nicolás Rascovan This week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Nicolás Rascovan @NRascovan, a G5 Group Leader at Institut Pasteur. Nicolás Rascovan: https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/microbial-paleogenomics/ https://nicorascovan.wordpress.com/ This episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Dr. Camila Valenzuela. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss the costs associated with open science policies from a funders perspective with Dana Cobb-Lewis, a Program Officer at Aligning Science Across Parkinsons (ASAP).Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627554v1.fullThis episode was produced by Sonia Gomes Pereira and edited by Sonia Gomes Pereira. Music by Dr John D Howard.Submit your question that you’d like us to answer directly (https://www.speakpipe.com/preprints) or contact us via our website. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated.For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com. Preprints in Motion is a Rippling Ideas production.Find us on social media: Jonny (@JACoates.bsky.Social), Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (www.linkedin.com/in/soniagomespereira). 

This week we discuss the increasing strain on scientific publishing with Mark Hanson, a Principle Investigator from the University of Exeter, UK. The number of scientific publications are rising at an alarming rate and disproportionately to the number of scientists. We talk about why this is happening and what some of the solutions might be. Read the full paper -> https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/4/823/124269/The-strain-on-scientific-publishing  Explore the data yourself -> https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/  Mark’s lab -> https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/  Find Mark on Bluesky -> https://bsky.app/profile/hansonmark.bsky.social  Blog post mentioned by Mark -> https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/we-need-a-new-special-issue-lexicon This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Sonia Gomes Pereira. Music by Dr John D Howard. Submit your question that you’d like us to answer directly (https://www.speakpipe.com/preprints) or contact us via our website.  If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com. Preprints in Motion is a Rippling Ideas production. Find us on social media: Jonny @JACoates.bsky.Social, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (www.linkedin.com/in/soniagomespereira). 

Episode 45 - Surviving freezing through leg amputation. But be careful about regeneration! This week we discussed how flies survive in freezing temperatures with Anne Sustar, a Research Scientist / Lab Manager, Dominic Golding, a medical student, and John Tuthill (@casa_tuthill), Associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Read the full preprint -> Adult Drosophila legs do not regenerate after amputation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.25.513553v1 Article: Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223012150?via%3Dihub This episode was produced by Sonia Gomes Pereira and Johny Coates and edited by Sonia Gomes Pereira.  If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_). 

This week we celebrate the end of the year by chatting with our host Jonny Coates (@JACoates), Associate Director at ASAPBio. Join us for a conversation on the importance of all things preprints, science communication, open access, career development, and community building, plus his decision to leave academia and how this podcast started! If you stay until the end, you might have a glimpse of how it is to record an episode with pets.   Jonny Coates (https://jacoates.co.uk/) Preprints in Motion (https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/) ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org) This episode was produced and edited by Camilla Valenzuela.   If you enjoyed this show, then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; https://preprintsinmotion.wordpress.com/.   Find us on Twitter: Jonny (@JACoates) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

It’s our 2 year birthday this month! To celebrate we take a trip back to the past and discuss the history of preprint servers with Matthew Cobb, a Professor at the University of Manchester.  Find Matthew’s BBC podcast for more about the great science publishing scandal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l7k If you want to learn more about the prehistory of preprint servers you can read the full article here https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003995 This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Camila Valenzuela.  If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_). 

This week we discuss all things ECR with Mayank Chugh & Gracielle Higino, two current postdocs who are leading the efforts in fighting for a better environment for ECRs in academia.   Gracielle is an ASAPbio fellow and program co-ordinator at BIOS2, a community of researchers who are exploring and applying modern-day computational and quantitative techniques to address the challenges of biodiversity sciences. You can find her on Twitter @GracielleHigino and online https://www.graciellehigino.com/. Learn more about BIOS2 - https://bios2.usherbrooke.ca/.  Mayank is the President of the Harvard Medical Postdoc Association (HMPA). He also leads a DEIB working group in the department of systems biology towards fair recruitment of postdocs and faculty. He is an advocate for mental health awareness, equity, and a plethora of much needed changes in the current academic system - many listeners will already be familiar with his various writings and contributions to articles written by journalists. Mayank is also a poet and can be found on Twitter @mayank_mchugh and online https://www.mayankchugh.org/.  Implicit bias test https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html or learn more https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/jaxt/blogposts/piblogpost021.html This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Sónia Gomes Pereira.  If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) & Sonia (@SniaGPereira1). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss hot and cold fibrosis with Shoval Miyara, a PhD student at the Weizmann Institute of Science.  Find shoval on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MiyaraShoval) Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.01.522422v1  This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Camila Valenzuela.  If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_). 

This week we discuss synthetic carbon fixation, running a lab as a postdoc and eLife’s new publishing model with Sebastian Wenk, a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.28.509898v1.full Sebastian -> https://www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/person/50878/2132817 Arren Bar-Evan -> https://arren-bar-even.muchloved.com/ This episode was produced and edited by Jonny Coates. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8 & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss the big changes occurring over at eLife with Editor in Chief Mike Eisen & original ECAG member Devang Mehta. From Jan 2023, eLife is  focusing on public reviews and assessments of preprints and eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review. Read more about this new model here: https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/54d63486/elife-s-new-model-changing-the-way-you-share-your-research Mike Eisen: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/eisenm.html Devang Mehta: https://mehta-lab.com/ eLife: https://elifesciences.org/ This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Camilla Valenzuela. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) & Camila (@Kamo_Valenzuela). Generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

DISCLAIMER – These servers were reviewed from the approach of a first use instance and may not accurately reflect the full capabilities of each server. Moreover, any comments are opinions only. Preprint servers. There’s an incredibly interesting history behind them (watch this space for more on that next year) but as of 2022 there are over 50 different preprint servers. No wonder it feels like they’re an inescapable topic these days. I mean, we’re contributing to that but hey. Some are highly specialised, such as EcoEvoRxiv (that’s ecology, evolution and conservation), and some are geo-restricted, such as AfriaRxiv. Consideration of preprint servers based on discipline, scope, policies, and readership is relevant to inform where to deposit your preprint, and in turn to maximize visibility for the work and opportunities for feedback from researchers in your specific field. In this episode we take 3 of the top general bioscience preprint severs and put them to battle. We judge each on their: Appearance / ease of use – navigating and submitting Reach /size Journal integrations Additional offerings – public peer reviews, data, printing, links out, attention/metrics Positives of the server Negatives/improvement aspects of the server Why choose this server over the others? Useful links: https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/11/7/bio059310/276073/A-guide-to-preprinting-for-early-career Some preprint servers in addition to those discussed in the episode: OSF – more of a search engine but very useful bioRxiv/medRxiv Research Square Authorea F1000 Cell Sneak Peak and Preprints with the Lancet Preprints.org This episode was produced by Jonny Coates, Camilla Valenzuela and John Howard and edited by John Howard. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss RNA editing in cephalopods with postdoc Kavita Rangan. Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.25.509396v1.full This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Tala Noun & John Howard. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod, Instagram @Motion_Pod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss modeling cell-cell collisions with Pedrom Zadeh, a 4th year PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. We learn how to distill basic biology into models and just how important and useful modeling can be as a tool. Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.13.491710v1.full Twitter thread on the preprint -> https://twitter.com/diffusiveblob/status/1526247248241246208?s=20&t=DGdP1wWJYW6wVsBFCeQp1w Other links: 3 blue 1 brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown Atomic Habbits: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/B07J1XQSNK/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=130289978361&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj7CZBhDHARIsAPPWv3flGGVJehb4MWwgynAUZMCcrmn0OUt1J3RahhuXQ-y8HHwUb2ULqPMaArOKEALw_wcB&hvadid=542921826939&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9050361&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1668537604868110719&hvtargid=kwd-1463848202564&hydadcr=24400_1816039&keywords=atomic+habits&qid=1663873098&s=books&sr=1-1 This episode was produced by Emma Wilson & Jonny Coates and edited by Camila Valenzuela. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).

This week we discuss how cells can divide without nuclei and why this happens with Anand Bakshi, Fabio Echegaray Iturra (@fabioechegaray) & Mustafa G. Aydogan @AydoganLab. We also highlight Drosophila as an amazing model system that just keeps on giving and speak about the importance of preprints in collaboration and  grant applications. We also discuss the limitations of preprints and the fluidity of science.  Read the full preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.15.496343v1.full Other links: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/07/fruit-fly-fascination-nobel-prizes-genetics https://aydoganlab.com/ This episode was produced by Emma Wilson and edited by Jonny Coates. If you enjoyed this show then hit that subscribe button and leave a review (on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). If you love what we are trying to do then buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/preprints! Any contribution is greatly appreciated. For the latest podcast news and updates follow us on Twitter @MotionPod or visit our website; www.preprintsinmotion.com. Produced by JEmJ Productions (find us on Twitter: Jonny @JACoates, Emma @ELWilson92, John @JohnDHoward8) and generously supported by ASAPbio (https://asapbio.org | @asapbio_).