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France to cut research budget by 25%

“A scientific and industrial suicide” The French government just dropped a bomb in the French research community. Indeed, a new draft decree canceled 256 million euros destined to research in 2016. It represents a budget cut of ~25%, which will affect leading … Continue reading

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“Excellence? Yes, but in Spanish!”

“Even a Nobel laureate would now be unlikely to be appointed to the science teaching faculty in many of Spain’s best universities.” This is how begins a note recently published in the journal Nature in which Pau Carazo and Enrique … Continue reading

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