"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#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

Met onze diepgravende en kritische onderzoeksjournalistiek schoppen we bij Apache geregeld tegen de schenen van politici.

Dat kunnen we niet zonder de steun van onze leden. Interesse om onze missie te steunen? Word lid via https://apache.be/word-apache?mtm_campaign=MAS

For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. This despite all the evidence & Zimbabwe meaning 'houses of stone' in the Shona language.

The ancient aliens industry applies the same logic to Sacsayhuamán in Peru.

Yet nobody questions who built the impressive structures in Rome or Greece.

Sunday's Drystone Diary will explore Whose History Is Worth Keeping?

#DrystoneDiary #Nature #Writing #History

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116705256401454865

If not scam. Why scam shaped?

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Natuurlijk mag je dromen. Je bent jong en je denkt dat je de hele wereld aan kunt. Alleen Liam, je bent 22 en het mag wel wat realistischer op jouw leeftijd. Liam is student communicatiewetenschappen en wil journalist worden, maar heeft geen Instagramaccount.

https://vremdemirror.com/2026/05/12/student-zonder-instagramaccount-ambieert-carriere-in-de-journalistiek/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01481-0

"first science publisher sues over scraped research papers"

#Meta vs. #Elsevier - you really don't know who to root for less.

#Llama #AI #Copyright