Nature:
Some 2500 Spanish scientists, including 150 full professors and
4 research-center directors, have sent a petition to José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the country's prime minister,
asking for changes to a science and technology law currently
being debated in the country's parliament, writes Michele
Catanzaro for
Nature. The petition, delivered in a letter on 22
February, is the latest move in a sustained campaign by Spanish
researchers to improve long-term planning of research. Among
their requests is that tenure-track opportunities be restored
to the latest bill and that the state research agency the bill
is creating remain independent of the government.
