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Spain’s biggest-ever science petition decries ‘abandonment’ of research

Researchers deliver 280,000-signature campaign to parliament protesting decade of drastic cuts — but a budget hike might be in their sights.
  1. Michele Catanzaro
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Leading Spanish scientific organizations delivered a petition signed by more than 277,000 people to the national parliament in Madrid on 11 April, calling on the government to stop the “progressive abandonment of science in Spain” caused by budget cuts. The petition is the largest ever on a science-policy subject in Spain.

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Nature 556, 285 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04523-4

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