October 7, 2026 — Leave arXiv Alone

The DISRUPTED SCIENCE Podcast · Oct 7, 2026 · 47m

arXiv was the first major preprint server, a practical Internet solution for a community seeking to exchange findings in areas like high-energy physics, particle physics, and astrophysics, all of which were growing at a rapid rate at the time due to machine-readable outputs and new sensor abilities.

First housed at Los Alamos, it moved to Cornell for a time before spinning out as an independent non-profit earlier this year. It has always been a bit of a financial albatross, so going it alone may mean more financial austerity is in the cards.

But now that it’s taken its future into its own…