Five protected disclosures were made last year by people working for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the state body responsible for funding scientific research in Ireland. All five made their complaints in 2023. Dealing with their ongoing fallout has required considerable resources by the state body, which is tasked with funding basic and applied research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is the first time employees in SFI made any such disclosures since it started publishing an annual report of any such disclosures in 2019. None of the five disclosures in 2023 was “closed during 2023”, according to a report…

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