Swiss researchers facing ‘anti-transgenics’ vote

Publication subsidies: challenges and dilemmas facing South African researchers

In an attempt to encourage and enhance research productivity in higher educational institutions, various systems have been introduced. Currently in South Africa, a government subsidy is granted to higher educational institutions in reward for research outputs (primarily journal publications and postgraduate student graduations). The purpose of this article is not to attack the current or past p...

Can small institutes address some problems facing biomedical researchers?

At a time of historically low National Institutes of Health funding rates and many problems with the conduct of research (unfunded mandates, disgruntled reviewers, and rampant paranoia), there is a concern that biomedical research as a profession is waning in the United States (see "Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws" by Alberts and colleagues in the Proceedings of the Nati...

Under threat by popular vote: German-speaking immigrants’ affect and cognitions following the Swiss vote against mass immigration

A popular initiative in support of regulating future immigration to Switzerland was accepted by the electorate in 2014. Assuming that the initiative acted as an exclusionary threat for current immigrants of Switzerland, we conducted an online survey among a sample of highly-skilled German-speaking immigrants ("expats"). Participants reported having experienced negative affect following the vote...

Correction: Under threat by popular vote: German-speaking immigrants’ affect and cognitions following the Swiss vote against mass immigration

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175896.].

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