Nature Open Peer Review - Astro paper up for critique

Two astronomy papers are up on the Nature website for open critique, the new experiment with open peer review that Nature is conducting.

A new type of massive stellar death: no supernovae from two nearby long gamma ray bursts - Fynbo et al

Baryonic sweeping as the origin of the darkest galaxies in the Universe - Mayer et al

Fire at will.
I think comments are open to everyone, not just subscribers. Someone tell me if non-subscribers are blocked.

Comments and commenter IDs are public I believe.
Only comment I saw on quick browsing was on one of the squicky bio papers on sex... [sic]

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