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  1. "We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
    statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-a
    (#paywalled)

    There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.

    * The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.

    * The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.

    * The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.

    #FunderPolicies #Funders #NIH #OpenAccess #ScholComm

  2. Wer lebte in der Ertlmühle? Buch beleuchtet 280 Jahre Geschichte

    #Altlengbach. In „Die Bewohner der Ertlmühle“ dokumentiert die Altlengbacherin Sandra Hermann die Daten von über 250 Personen von 1660 bis 1938. Im Fokus steht dabei eine historische Mühle in Sieghartskirchen.

    noen.at/neulengbach/ahnenforsc (€)

    #paywalled #Ahnenforschung #NÖN #SandraHermann #AnnamariaBauer #Buch #Buchpräsentation #Wilhelmsburg #Sieghartskirchen #Tulln #Matriken #Heimatkunde #Regionalgeschichte #Ertlmühle

  3. Genetische Spurensuche: Frankreich will Cold Cases mit DNA-Ahnenforschung lösen

    #Frankreich. Manchmal liegt die Antwort auf ein Verbrechen nicht in einem Geständnis oder einem Zeugenhinweis – sondern in einem entfernten Cousin. Genau das könnte bald Realität in Frankreich werden.

    nachrichten.fr/genetische-spur (€)

    #paywalled #Ahnenforschung #Nachrichten.fr #GéraldDarmanin #SURE #DNAGenealogie #Kriminalität #Polizei #Verbrechen #Verbrechensbekämpfung #ColdCase

  4. Update. "The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation"
    chronicle.com/article/the-rise
    (#paywalled)

    "The #Trump administration’s assault on the #NSF represents precisely the kind of political interference [#VannevarBush] sought to prevent — one that threatens not only scientific progress but also the very foundation of academic freedom."

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics