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An interesting study by two Economics profs at Georgia State University detailing the coming glut of bioinformatics graduates and the future job market. Ah, for the days when universities were falling over each other to establish bioinformatics programs. Gotta have that new new thing!

The Royal Society has set up a working group on best practice for publishing research. It's pretty wide-ranging and covers issues such as inadequacies in peer review, ethics, corporate interests and more. Quote from the BBC story: "(Bateson) said it had also been suggested the process (peer review) had been used by the Establishment to prevent unorthodox ideas methods and views, regardless of their merit, from being made public".