[jacquesm]

These sort of answers do not inspire confidence. That looks like a play for time, why would they connect those two, it's clear they have priority locked in if the sample works out, the peer review of their paper is secondary to the questions of whether or not it is the real deal or not.

[jszymborski]

> These sort of answers do not inspire confidence.

I'm not anything close to a Materials Engineer, but at least in the (very different) fields in which I've published, it's very standard to not share material (e.g.: plasmids, bacteria, code, or datasets) until you've published.

Pre-prints rarely have code or data available if the authors intend to publish elsewhere (again, in my field).

[jacquesm]

Ok, that may well be the explanation then. As long as those samples don't go missing...

[willis936]

The whole point is for the samples to not go missing because they will likely need them in rounds of review.

[Me1000]

Time for what though? Eventually the world is gonna need to see the samples or we’re just going to assume they never created it to begin with and move on.

I’m not in a big rush, we’ve made it this far without RTSCs.