The big news this week was the Continuing Adventures of Vince Cable and the Disappearing Science Funding. William Cullerne-Bown is collecting the links here, and there’s some great stuff from Alok Jha, Kieron Flanagan, Evan Harris. James Wilsdon talks us through 45%gate. Jon Butterworth brings the satire. After being urged to do “more with less” Mark Henderson says (paywall), “A far more probably outcome is that we will end up achieving less with less.” And you can you’re your support by joining the Facebook group. No more Dr Nice Guy!

Steve Silberman continues his barrage of ace blogging with this tale of Wikipedia contributing to the spread of a “domesticated superbug”

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