First round of presidential elections in France this weekend -- and research scientists are one of the groups that may face very different fates depending on the result.

I did a piece on the two main candidates and their research agenda a couple of months ago:

Current Biology 17, No 5 (06.03.), R145-46
French researchers ponder election proposals
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but since then, of course, a third one has emerged as a possible winner, making things complicated.

Today's issue of Nature has a huge amount of coverage of the elections, with interviews of the three leading candidates, news features, commentary, everything: http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

For first hand information on what troubles researchers in France, visit the site of Sauvons La Recherche (SLR):

http://recherche-en-danger.apinc.org/