In our report on preprinting, we made 7 key recommendations for preprint advocacy across 2026. These are vital to encourage continued adoption and meaningful change. We're actively seeking funding/collaborations to achieve these together, get in touch if that's you! Check them out! 1/2

Our final Preprints in Motion podcast episode is out now Is preprinting failing? open.spotify.com/episode/4sFk...

Is preprinting failing?

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Our latest op-ed. We investigate if the preprint movement is replicating the same mistakes that the OA movement made!

Jonny Coates@jacoates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's out! Perhaps one of the op-eds that has made me most nervous releasing. Taking Richard Poynders arguments as to why OA failed, I apply these to the preprint movement. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...

I can finally share my plans to launch my own consulting/advocacy organisation focussed on preprints, trust in research and improving academic culture! Introducing Rippling Ideas: www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...

Introducing Rippling Ideas

This has been in the works for what feels like an eternity. But the time has come to introduce the thinking behind Rippling Ideas, what it is and what it will be producing in the near future.

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Now published in Peer Community Journal, #neuroscience section: MLIB: an easy-to-use Matlab toolbox for the analysis of extracellular spike data

MLIB: an easy-to-use Matlab toolbox for the analysis of extracellular spike data

Stüttgen, Maik C.1  1University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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Do you record spikes in vivo? Here are two recently recommended preprints on toolboxes for extracellular electrophysiology: -MLIB doi.org/10.1101/2025... by Maik Stüttgen. -Power Pixels doi.org/10.1101/2025... by @guidomeijer.com and @battaglialab.bsky.social.

“the preprint movement [is] a response to the failures of the open access movement…All the more reason to be mindful of our past missteps” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g... via @madubs.bsky.social

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.

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Hi All, We've just joined bsky! PCI Neuroscience is a free-to-read/free-to-submit preprint peer-review service in neuroscience. Getting your preprint peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Neuro is a direct route to publishing without fuss and for free in Peer Community Journal.