Jonny Coates
Jonny Coates

Associate Director

About Me

Leading advocate for academic reform with over 10 years’ experience in immunology and metascience and 5+ years’ experience in science communication including podcasting and writing for scientific, lay and professional audiences. Significant experience in advocacy, network building and relationship cultivation with stakeholders across academia, publishing and industry and a track record of international project management and collaboration. 8 years’ experience advocating for preprint usage and open science adoption through talks, writing, research and community leadership.

I have featured on international radio stations (BBC Radio 4, ORF & German National radio) to communicate the importance of preprints in addition to having written for outlets such as The Scientist and the British Society for Cell Biology. My work has been covered by a wide range of news organisations over the past 2 years. I have also contributed to numerous journalistic pieces in outlets including The Economist, The Scientist and Nature on topics from open science to academic culture.

I am currently on the Advisory boards of Europe PMC, eiRxiv and AREN (Afrcia Reproducibility Network).

Outside of work I enjoy climbing, photography, fine-dining, guitars, comedy, live-music and adrenaline-fueled adventures; though now mostly all superceded by my adorable dog, Jessie.

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Interests
  • Meta-research
  • Open access and preprints
  • ECR training & development
  • Immune cell biology
  • Innate immunology
  • Model organisms
Education
  • PhD Immunology

    University of Sheffield

  • MRes Immunobiology

    Newcastle University

  • BSc Biomedical Science

    Northumbria University

📚 My Research
My scientific interests are focussed on immune cell biology (with a heavy focus on microscopy) and meta-research (the science of how we do science). In addition, I have active interests in science communication, open-access and research culture. I host the Preprints in Motion podcast where we highlight ECRs and the benefits of open-science and I founded the UK & EU postdoc slack group to provide a community for postdocs.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2024). The status and challenges of preprint adoption in Africa. OSF.
(2023). The status and challenges of preprint adoption in Africa. OSF.
(2022). Neutrophil breaching of the blood vessel pericyte layer during diapedesis requires mast cell-derived IL-17A. Nature Communications.
(2022). Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic. PLOS Biology.
(2021). Identification of functionally distinct macrophage subpopulations in Drosophila. eLife.