Mine had this, gave me a server error, then came back, so hopefully yours was a temporary issue too!

It's worked we've done together since 2020 and when I've pushed to expand it they've been silent.

The added complication in all of this is the personal connection. Like part of the wedding ceremony close 🙃

After some digging it looks like it was submitted Feb 23, so it's been submitted and rejected, which is something I guess? But even now we are actively collaborating on other projects, just feels wrong.

I can see this exploiting underfunded PhD students by offering money for research that would do well in much better journals but don't know any better.

I also completely doubt the author will ever see the money.

Am I reading that right? Declaring Conflict of Interest is somehow not 100%?