As part of their correspondence today, they also let the first author (my former doctoral student) know about the option of a young-scientist, first-author spotlight. They wrote the following (which you can also find on their website):
Congratulations on acceptance of your article in Biology Open. To help early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers, we have launched a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in BiO. If you would like to be included in this interview series, please tell us more about yourself by answering the questions below. You can answer all or just some of the questions, and you may also suggest additional questions and provide your answers to them if you wish.
How interesting! I have never seen a journal do this before. What a great idea! We really need to do something like this in the mathematics and physics communities.
Here are their suggested questions:
What is your scientific background and the general focus of your lab?
How would you explain the main findings of your paper to non-scientific family and friends?
What are the potential implications of these results for your field of research?
What has surprised you the most while conducting your research?
What, in your opinion, are some of the greatest achievements in your field and how has this influenced your research?
What changes do you think could improve the professional lives of early career scientists?
What's next for you?
They then added the following:
So that we can create a short biography to accompany your interview, please ensure that you include your job title, the name of the Principal Investigator of your lab, your contact address and a one-line synopsis of your research interests. Include your Twitter handle, if you have one, so we can tag you in any related tweets.
They also asked for a picture of the first author and "a particularly striking, interesting or unusual image" from their research (along with a caption describing it).
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