Richard Sever’s Post

Preprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. The success of these projects was far from a given and is a tribute to the scientific community. It felt important to tell the story and recognize the contributions of so many: CSHL, our amazing internal team, the scientists who inspired us, & and of course CZI and our other funders for their vision in supporting us. I also wanted to document the pandemic experience. It sometimes feels like there's a collective amnesia about the period. It was a stress test for preprints, but also gave us a unique window into the incredible efforts of the scientific and medical community to combat the virus and how the world was being impacted. Hopefully the article makes clear this was a collective effort and we're profoundly grateful to all the scientists (practicing and non-practicing...) and folk in the publishing and tech communities who inspired us and took a leap of faith participating. https://lnkd.in/eh7QDn7t