The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world | Martin Paul Eve | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing

This week has been one in which my personal and professional lives have aligned in interesting ways. As you may know, one strand of my work focuses on the study of academic publishing, including peer review. This has featured discussions of the idea of “excellence” but also how preprints are viewed in the world.

Another part of my life concerns a strand of disability activism around the non-availability of the drug Evusheld in the UK. Bear with me if you’ve already heard me harp on about this. Evusheld is a combination of two long-acting antibodies (tixagevimab and cilgavimab). It’s a drug designed to protect clinically vulnerable people against Covid in cases where vaccines don’t work.

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