ScienceInsider reported this week that French authorities have charged a nuclear physicist working as a contractor at CERN with having ties to an Algerian terrorist organization and that 51 academic biomedical scientists in Spain have published an open letter in El País declaring their "confusion" at plans for a 5.3 billion science and innovation budget, a 0.2% increase over this year's budget, among other stories.

In response to a 2 October letter signed by 100 Russian researchers working abroad complaining of "the disastrous situation in Russian basic research," Russian officials last week boasted about their support of science, particularly a new program to lure back 100 expat researchers to work at least 2 months a year in a Russian research institute or university.