Become a Bitesize Bio Community creator
Get Involved
Get involved in our peer-to-peer educational webinar programme to share your hard-won experience with fellow researchers, making a real impact on the scientific community while building a visible portfolio of your expertise.
Why We’re Building This
Most of the knowledge that determines whether experiments work well never makes it into papers or protocols. It lives in experience — in judgement calls, technique details, troubleshooting instincts, and lessons learned through trial and error. When researchers move labs or leave the bench, that knowledge is often lost.
The Bitesize Bio Educational Webinar Programme exists to preserve and pass on this real-world scientific craft, organised around seven core pillars that define what “good science in the real world” actually requires.
Four Reasons to Get Involved with Bitesize Bio
The Seven Pillars of Bitesize Bio Wisdom
Technical skills
Because understanding techniques and the intricacies of performing them enables scientists to get better, more reproducible results more efficiently
Scientific fundamentals
Because we all know how problems like p-hacking and the reproducibility crisis are affecting progress—rigorous scientific method is critical
Communicating science
Because understanding and sharing scientific findings are the foundation on which scientific progress is built
Personal development and wellbeing
Because a happy scientist is a productive scientist
Mentoring and lab management
Because good mentors mould good scientists
Inspiration
Because it’s easy to forget why we’re doing what we’re doing—seeing the bigger picture helps you stay excited about your work
Careers and funding
Because choosing the right path maximizes each individual’s contribution to science—and everyone needs to eat, right?
How It Works
You deliver a focused 20–30 minute live online session aligned to one or more of the Seven Pillars. We host and record it, then create a clear evergreen article from the transcript and publish it on Bitesize Bio alongside the recording. Your contribution becomes a permanent, citable educational resource used by working scientists worldwide.
Who We’re Looking For
We work with postdocs, PhD researchers, technicians, lab managers, and other research professionals with substantial experience gained through real decision-making and problem-solving, aligned to one of our Seven Pillars. You don’t need to be senior or widely known, but you do need knowledge earned through doing the work.
What an Educational Webinar Is
Bitesize Bio Educational Webinars are:
What an Education Webinar is Not
An educational webinar is not a sales presentation with an educational veneer. While our sponsored webinars may include more product-focused content, educational webinars are about the science, the thinking and development as a scientist, not products.
While a promotional link is permitted at the end of the webinar, it shouldn’t dominate the session or undermine the educational value. You’re welcome to mention products, tools, or approaches you genuinely use and have opinions about (including stating preferences) as long as they serve an educational point. What matters is that the session stands on its own as genuinely useful to scientists, regardless of whether they ever use the product mentioned.
Please note that we only provide attendee leads for sponsored webinars, not for educational webinars. If you’re interested in running a product-led or promotional webinar, we’re happy to explore that separately. Contact our sales team here.
3 Steps to Becoming a Bitesize Bio Community Creator
Apply
Apply to deliver an educational webinar and book in with our production team for your recording slot.
Deliver
Prepare your slides then deliver your live session while our team run the tech and promotion behind the scenes.
Share
We host your recording on our site and turn your webinar into an educational article on BitesizeBio.com.
What Makes a Good Educational Webinar Topic
Before proposing a session, we ask contributors to consider one simple question:
What could you share that would genuinely help a postdoc who is currently struggling with the technique, decision, or area you know well?
If your topic would help a fellow scientist up the practical learning curve, it belongs here. Examples of successful past topics include:
- Ten Common Statistical Mistakes to Watch out for When Writing/Reviewing a Manuscript
- Design, Develop, Deliver and Detect – the 4 D’s of CRISPR gene editing
- Starting a New Lab – what you need to know
- Plasmid vs. Genomic DNA Extraction: The Difference
- Multiple Fragment Ligation: The Why and How
- How to Respond to Criticism of Your Grant Proposal Reviews
- 3 Hot Tips to Optimize your Western Blots
- 6 SEM Sample Preparation Pointers for Successful Imaging
- Fundamental Principles Of Frequentist Statistics
- Garbage In, Garbage Out: Sample Prep for Flow Cytometry
- Avoiding Misconduct in Bioscience
- Back to Buffer Basics: Everything You Need to Know About Buffers
Join our Movement
If you have practical insight that fits one of our Seven Pillars and would help a struggling postdoc do better work, we’d love to hear from you.
