🏆 #PreprintOfTheWeek on ScienceOpen
“Beyond Cannabinoids: Olivetol as the Central Intracellular Mediator of Cannabis Therapeutics”
Congrats from the Editors of ScienceOpen Preprints to the author Karl Young 👏

#ScienceOpen #Preprint #Cannabinoids #CannabisTherapeutics

#ArXiv is cracking down on #AI #slop and will only allow initial submissions based on recommendations from established ArXiv authors.

🌍 https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop

#preprint #AIslop

🚨 In a new #preprint with Walid El-Ajou & Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, we report on an experiment using a #SeriousGame as an #immersive #information #treatment to understand the role of #knowledge and #efficacy in #PublicOpinion formation on the #GreenTransition #EnergySky #politicalscience

📖 osf.io/x5u6b

💬 Feedback welcome!

My newest #Prelights article highlights a #preprint by B. R. Baisla et al. (2025) and their search for morphological #prezygotic #barriers to reduce #hybridization among the species complex of #Nasonia, #parasitoid wasps. Male genital morphology apparently does not prevent hybridization, pre-mating #barriers are still unknown.
©#StefanFWirth 2026

Reference

Prelights article by Stefan F. Wirth:
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/morphological-variations-in-external-genitalia-do-not-explain-the-interspecific-reproductive-isolation-in-nasonia-species-complex-hymenoptera-pteromalidae/

Pics
1) public domain, M.E.Clark, 2006,
2) ©S.F.Wirth, AI illustration

#ThrowBackPost Wer wählt in seit dem Krieg rechtsradikal bis rechtsextrem (#preprint)
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/elektorat-rechte-parteien

🖥️ Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models

"We show that LLMs are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity, and further that LLMs are incapable of verifying the accuracy of tasks beyond a certain complexity."

Sikka, Varin and Sikka, Vishal (2025) 'Hallucination Stations: on some basic limitations of Transformer-Based Language models,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.07505.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Tech #ComputerScience #Research #Preprint #Academia

Researchers’ Views on Preprints and Open Access Publishing: Results From a Free-Answer Survey of Japanese Molecular Biologists

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/01/23/researchers-views-on-preprints-and-open-access-publishing-results-from-a-free-answer-survey-of-japanese-molecular-biologists/

#BiomedicalResearch #HarufumiTamazawa #Japan #KazuhisaKamegai #KazukiIde #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PeerReview #Preprint #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPractices

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

We have a new #preprint. Using wicked electrochemistry and really nifty microscopy to look at how #manganese redox cycling and carboxyl groups play into the formation of #protodolomite.

https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/11460/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115923499147477767

A very interesting article on how LLMs might actually work. I am sceptic about the overextension of the work to cognitive sciences but the authors make a good point. I wonder what the actual cognitive scientists might say.

#llm #ai #science #cognitiveScience #cognition #arxiv #preprint #patternMatching

🚨 new #preprint online 🚨

Rapid evolution in response to changing environmental conditions is often considered beneficial, as it can help species to persist in changing environments. However, evolution can also be detrimental. 1st author Simon Leoz examines eco-evolutionary dynamics of competitive systems and finds a case of evolutionary murder, where rapid evolution of one species drives another one towards extinction.

#TheoreticalEcology
#EvolutionaryRescue
#EcoEvo

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.14.699340v1.full

📢 NEW WORK: "Origin of the constant B ≈ 0.486 in the distribution of prime numbers"

I study the Gaussian decay of a prime-related sum: S(s) ~ e^{-Bs²}. The constant B ≈ 0.486 emerges from three perspectives:

🔹 Arithmetic: B ≈ Σ 1/π(eⁿ) − 1
🔹 Spectral (under RH): B linked to zeros of ζ(s)
🔹 Geometric: the base e is optimal

📄 Full paper: [PDF_LINK]
👤 My other work: [ACADEMIA_LINK]

Open question: Which approach seems most enlightening to you?

#NumberTheory #PrimeNumbers #ZetaFunction #Maths #Mathematics #Research #RiemannHypothesis #Preprint #PrimeDistributionrime_numbers

Weiß jemand unter Linux ein Programm, das Bilder mit CMYK-Profil erstellt? GIMP kann es nicht.
Ist für Preprint, also Druck.
Ich bin wirklich dankbar für Tipps.

#linux #preprint #dtp #Desktop #bildbearbeitung #followerPower

Do you know about the OJS / OPS Dataverse plugin?

It enables the integration of #OpenJournalSystems and #OpenPreprintSystems with a #Dataverse repository, allowing authors to submit #ResearchData associated with their manuscripts during the submission process to the #journal or #preprint server.

Article, community call recording, and news: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/article-about-the-dataverse-ojs-ops-3-integration-plugin/97697

The plugin itself: https://github.com/lepidus/dataversePlugin/

#Interoperability #FOSS #OpenData

🏆 Preprint of the Week on ScienceOpen

"Opened Mind: A Cross-Modal, Multilingual Analysis of Empathetic AI"

Congrats from the Editors of #ScienceOpen Preprints to the author Amaury Castillo-Acevedo.

#ai #preprint #openacces

🙌 Want to join researchers from all over the world to improve a #preprint on AI use in healthcare?

Registration is now open for the PREreview + JMIR Publications Live Review.

✍️ Sign up here: bit.ly/live-review-jan-23

#reviewtogether

@NatureMC
Does this #preprint about #AI not having a #personality fall into the scope of what you are searching for?
Cars also don't have a personality, even if many car enthusiasts may feel that way ;)

"What students need to understand about AI: Neither chatbots nor cars have a personality"
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w6jvx_v1

#education

Congrats to Vincent Garot for his first PhD #preprint on #machinelearning in #phylodynamics (supported by #dim1health, cosupervised by @alizon @laurentjacob and Anna Zhukova ).

His #TEDDY software package can learn epidemiological parameters, e.g. #R0 or infection duration, directly from multiple sequence alignments of #virus genomic data thanks to simulation-based #inference.

No need to for a #phylogeny, which opens many perspectives for the field!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697728v1

@biorxivpreprint

@jonmsterling

They explain that there are simply too many ultra-low quality reviews posted.

#bioRxiv has not been accepting to archive reviews for years already (at least since 2017). Their FAQ says it's irrelevant as #preprint because they're not novel in themselves, but I believe part of the reason is also that there's a flooding of dodgy reviews.

#arXiv

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03664-7

https://web.archive.org/web/20170419045045/https://www.biorxiv.org/about/FAQ

Today, we would like to highlight Unisa Press

Discover Unisa Press Collections and UnisaRxiv, a #preprint platform for the rapid dissemination of #research across a variety of subjects, with #openpeerreview and transparent scholarly discussion.