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Nature 399, 400 (3 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/20767

Spanish council quizzed on recruits ...

Xavier Bosch

Spain's Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the country's main public source of science funding, has created 150 new positions for junior scientists this year, to be distributed between more than 100 institutes nationwide.But the optimal allocation of these jobs is still a hot topic, particularly following the recent debate on personnel selection at universities, where nepotism is said to be rife (see Nature 396, 712; 1998).