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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 Your Know-how Matters

Most of the knowledge that determines whether experiments work well never makes it into papers or protocols. It lives in experience, judgment 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

  • Share hard-won experience that directly improves how other scientists work
  • Create a permanent professional asset within the Bitesize Bio library
  • Demonstrate mentoring, leadership, and meaningful scientific contribution
  • Direct readers and viewers to something you care about (e.g. your LinkedIn profile or personal website)
  • Strengthen your personal brand to support long-term career progression
  • Get in front of tens of thousands of active, working researchers
  • Leverage Bitesize Bio’s 15+ years of educational trust and credibility in the life sciences
  • Live, professionally run online webinar format
  • Minimal time investment
  • No travel, no production burden
  • Editorial, production, and marketing support throughout
  • High-quality professional deliverables (article, webinar page, on-demand recording)
  • Everything runs smoothly, so you never look amateur
  • Saves you time, effort, and stress
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The Seven Pillars of Bitesize Bio’s Wisdom

Technical Skills

Technical skills

Because understanding techniques and the intricacies of performing them enables scientists to get better, more reproducible results more efficiently

Scientific fundamentals

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

Communicating science

Because understanding and sharing scientific findings are the foundation on which scientific progress is built

Personal development and wellbeing

Personal development and wellbeing

Because a happy scientist is a productive scientist

Mentoring and lab management

Mentoring and lab management

Because good mentors mould good scientists

Inspiration

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

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 25-minute live broadcast aligned with one or more of the Seven Pillars. We host the live event, then create a clear evergreen article and publish it on Bitesize Bio alongside the on-demand 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:

Led by scientists who’ve been in your shoes, speaking to other scientists who are working through similar challenges.

The value comes from what you learn, not from what you’re being sold.

The goal is to help you think differently about something you’re already dealing with, or to give you a framework that you can actually use.

Grounded in real decisions, actual mistakes, and the lessons that came from working through them.

Each session clearly ties back to one or more of the 7 pillars that define the problems and decisions scientists are navigating.

A single, 30-minute session designed to deliver one clear set of mentor-level insights without filler.

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.

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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 broadcast 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 webinar 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:

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.  

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FAQs

No. We work with postdocs, PhD researchers, technicians, lab managers, and other research professionals. What matters is having substantial experience in the topic you want to discuss, not job titles or seniority.

Not at all. Our most valuable sessions often come from scientists who are close to the bench and deeply familiar with real-world decisions and challenges. You don’t need to be famous.

Most contributors spend a few hours preparing their slides. On the day, you’ll be booked into a 1-hour recording slot with our team. This includes a short onboarding session at the start, followed by your 20–25 minute educational presentation and 5-minute Q&A.

Webinars are typically recorded in grouped sessions, where up to two mentors deliver back-to-back 30-minute talks in the same recording block. While you’re only speaking for your own segment, we ask contributors to attend the full session so everything runs smoothly.

No. We create the evergreen article for you from the webinar recording. You’ll have the opportunity to review it before publication.

Sessions are delivered live online, but we run all the tech and record the webinar. The recording is then published on-demand alongside the article.

Our production team helps you book your slot, prepare for the session, run the live event, and ensure everything goes smoothly. You’re never left to figure things out alone.

Sessions are delivered live online, but we run all the tech and record the webinar. The recording is then published on-demand alongside the article.

Yes, as long as they genuinely support the educational point. Educational webinars are not sales presentations, but we welcome honest discussion of tools, techniques, and approaches you actually use.

Yes, please do! You’re welcome to include a promotional link at the end of the webinar (e.g. LinkedIn, personal website, lab page), as long as the session stands on its own as a valuable educational resource.

For educational (mentor) webinars, Bitesize Bio does not share individual attendee or lead data. These sessions are designed to be education-first and focused on serving the research community, so attendee data remains within the Bitesize Bio platform. Sharing lead or attendee data is only available as part of our promotional webinar formats.

If your organisation is interested in lead generation or commercial webinar opportunities, our sales team would be happy to talk through the available options. Just get in touch and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Our educational webinars are voluntary and not paid engagements. The value comes from visibility, professional credibility, and creating a permanent, citable educational asset that supports your career progression.

Over time, some mentors do go on to take part in larger, sponsored or commissioned initiatives with us, which are paid. However, we’re keen that people come into the mentor programme because they genuinely want to contribute and share their experience, rather than with payment as the primary motivation.

After the live broadcast, the recording may be edited and repurposed into evergreen educational content on Bitesize Bio, such as an on-demand webinar and/or an article, with full attribution to you as the speaker.

You’re very welcome to link to the webinar and article from your website, CV, teaching record, outreach materials, grant applications, or professional profiles, etc. You can also share the webinar recording and direct people to the Bitesize Bio page as evidence of your contribution.

We ask that the written article itself not be republished elsewhere, as duplicate publication can create SEO issues and reduce its visibility for the scientific community. Linking to the original Bitesize Bio version helps ensure the resource remains discoverable and useful long-term.

We prioritise proposals that help scientists navigate real decisions, develop better judgement, and learn from experience in line with one or more of our Seven Pillars.

We also consider what’s already in the Bitesize Bio knowledge library. If a proposed topic closely overlaps with content we’ve already published, we may not be able to accept it.
Before applying, you’re welcome to explore existing articles on our site using the search function to see what’s already been covered.

That’s absolutely fine. If you’re unsure whether your idea fits one of our Seven Pillars, feel free to run it past the team before applying. Even if you’re not sure how you’d like to contribute, we’d love to hear from you. Our team will work with you to find the best way for you to share your knowledge and experience. You can reach them at mentors@bitesizebio.com

Yes, there will be a short live Q&A at the end of the webinar. The session consists of a 20–25 minute presentation, followed by approximately 5 minutes of audience Q&A, moderated by a Bitesize Bio host. The host will manage and select questions so the session runs smoothly and stays on time.

There won’t be an open, free-for-all discussion, but there is a dedicated opportunity to answer audience questions at the end of the session.

By default, we list a speaker’s current affiliation or organisation. However, this is flexible and can be adjusted to suit your preferences.

Yes, absolutely. Many speakers prefer not to list their employer, and this is completely fine. We can list your affiliation as “Bitesize Bio,” “Independent Researcher,” or another option you’re comfortable with.

Here is an example of a webinar that Astound Research did for this program, as a pilot for this format:

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