Mexican funding agency forces out early-career researchers
When biologist Adriana Gómez Bonilla started her job at the College of Michoacán, Zamora, in September 2014, she never imagined she would become an expert on labor rights. “It would've seemed like the farthest thing to me,” she says. But after 4 years, she was driven out of her job and into activism. Managers at Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt)—the country's federal science funding agency—pressured her to resign in March 2018, citing poor evaluations, which she says are inaccurate. She refused; a few months later the agency stopped paying her. Gómez Boni...
Source: sciencemag.org