Did you know bioRxiv, thé preprint server for biology requires "submissions to be associated with an organization that can provide oversight of research activities"? So if you lost your job as scientist because your research institute has been dismantled by the government since it doesn't fit with its political agenda, you can no longer place preprints on bioRxiv?

#openscience #openaccess #OpenAccess #science #biorxiv @biorxivpreprint

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/02/preprinttopaper-dataset-connecting-biorxiv-preprints-with-journal-publications/

#BiomedicalResearch #bioRxiv #ResearchData #ScientificCommunication

Circlesquare: juggling DOIs when preprinting

https://quantixed.org/2026/02/17/circlesquare-juggling-dois-when-preprinting/

#computing #publishing #bioRxiv #DOI #github #zenodo

My first #vibecoding applications. In my research life I struggle with keeping up with the literature and organizing my lab notebook.

I made a customizable automated literature search tool that performs weekly searches of #pubmed and #biorxiv then uses Claude to summarize and give a priority ranking based on my current #research

Also built an experiment management system to keep me on track and my data organized

Thanks for the inspiration @kevin and @Casey

https://hazletonlab.com/software.html

Otro pequeño orgullo de nuestro laboratorio del #iibce ya está en @biorxiv_neursci .
Un importante volumen de trabajo sobre las conexinas en la reparación de la médula espinal.
Gran equipo #MadeInUruguay lo hizo posible, gracias a financiación extranjera de #WingsForLife.

@constanzasilvera

#neuroscience #neuromastodon #medulaeespinal #conexinas #neurociencia #biology #biologia #investigacion #ciencia #Uruguay #spinalcordinjury #spinalcord #research #pedeciba @SocNeuroUy #preprint #biorxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.16.699895v1.full.pdf+html

Thank you #biorxiv staff for processing the pre-prints so quickly and nicely. Our latest manuscript addresses a rather specialized, albeit important, question in mRNA degradation in yeast. To what extent the Lsm1-7/Pat1 complex is involved in the degradation of mRNA by decapping activation ? By using a degron strain allowing rapid depletion of Lsm1, we find a slight impact of the complex on decapping, including changes in #NMD substrate levels.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694855v1

#RNA #decapping

#OpenRxiv just added an #AI #PeerReview feature for #preprints on #bioRxiv and #medRxiv. At the moment, they're using the #qedscience tool.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03909-5

The bioRxiv announcement makes clear that AI review is optional for authors and that authors might be able to choose from other AI tools in the future.
https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/11/04/qed_review_tool

PS: My experiments lead me to think that AI isn't good enough to do peer review yet -- even if (1) it's getting better, (2) it can already help human reviewers, and (3) many human reviewers are worse. Journals that allow it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving authors and readers. Referees who give it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving journals, authors, and readers. If you lean in the same direction, let me suggest that these objections don't carry over to preprint servers making AI review an #FWIW option for authors. This kind of AI review doesn't pretend to be more than it is. When it happens, it's a voluntary decision by authors. Of course authors could have gotten AI feedback on their own, with the AI tools of their choice, and without the preprint-server mediation. But giving them another option for the same kind of feedback is harmless and convenient. Moreover, it creates a training ground to monitor the quality and improvement of the AI tools.