I'm working with researchers in Germany to hopefully reproduce the findings with a new study feature in the Lucid Scribe app.

100%, publicly funded research should result in open code and papers, not private code and private journal publication.

It looks like this was well-funded research:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921678&His...

The first grant was for $616,000 (over several years), and there are at least three more grants attached to this research.

Academia is sometimes a bit ridiculous. This feels like something an undergrad student could do in their spare time for a capstone or thesis project with no material cost.

YC would do a better job of this.

If you agree, here's a petition: https://publiccode.eu