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Tropical flowers trick bees by aping another plant The Wellcome Trust is now one of the most powerful players in British and international science. What can we expect from its incoming director?April has brought with it a mini-reshuffle of some of the biggest jobs in British science. Three weeks into his new role, Sir Mark Walport is already stamping his mark on the Government Office for Science. Imran Khan has traded the cramped but energetic office of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) for a plusher berth at the British Science Association. Earlier this week, Sarah Main, a molecular biologist with experience at the Medical Research Council and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, was named as Khan's successor at CaSE. And yesterday, Jeremy Farrar, professor of tropical medicine and global health at Oxford University was unveiled as the new director of the Wellcome Trust. With Wellcome now the world's third largest charitable foundation, dispensing around Â£700 million each year, Farrar's appointment has sparked particular interest. His move to Wellcome's headquarters in Euston will be a sharp contrast to the seventeen years he has spent as head of Oxford's Wellcome-funded Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Given Wellcome's emphasis on long-term investment in world-class researchers, it's a characteristic move to appoint one of their own top scientists to the director role, and a sign of the growing maturity of their funding strategy.Farrar's track record at the frontiers of infectious disease research, including extensive work on H5N1 avian flu, makes his appointment feel remarkably timely, as the world nervously monitors the progress of the current H7N9 outbreak in China, which as of yesterday had infected 108 people and led to 22 deaths. Indeed, with serendipitous timing, on the same day that Farrar's appointment was announced, the journal Nature published a thoughtful commentary on H7N9 by Peter Horby, one of his close colleagues in Vietnam. Farrar's background has led some to speculate that he may further scale up Wellcome's investment in biomedical research in the developing world. But he will also have to grapple with dilemmas closer to home. As the largest non-governmental funder of research within the UK system, Wellcome has an increasingly powerful voice in science policy, particularly at a time when the research councils are braced for several more years of flat cash funding, and ever tighter scrutiny of their budgets by the bean counters in HM Treasury (as Steven Hill described on this blog yesterday). With a fat, healthy endowment, and no political overlords to answer to, Wellcome can provide a strong, independent perspective on the broader health of the <a href = "">micro niche finder </a> system. In the run-up to the last general election, it produced an influential analysis of the economic case for investing in biomedical research. It is now in <img src=""> the process of updating this work, but it will be interesting to see whether Farrar uses his position to play a more prominent role in funding debates ahead of the next general election. In the most extreme scenario, Wellcome could even threaten to divert a proportion of its funding away from the UK if flat or declining public investment is seen to be weakening the overall sustainability of its research and innovation system. During his decade in charge, Sir Mark Walport skilfully deployed the trust's financial clout to advance distinctive policy positions on genomics, translational research, open access, open data and science education. It will be intriguing to see how Farrar builds on these foundations, and which new agendas he moves to the fore. This recent interview on the BBC World Service gives a <img src=""> few insights into Farrar's likely concerns.Perhaps unique among UK institutions, Wellcome has the funding muscle to make or break entire research fields. For example, in their recent book on the 'promethean promises of the new biology', <img src=""> Hilary and Steven Rose, describe the crucial role that Wellcome played in the Human Genome Project: "Without the massive financial intervention of Wellcome, sometimes spoken of as the ten-thousand-pound gorilla in the genomics room, it is far from clear that the public project would have been driven through."From October, when he takes the <img src=""> reins, Jeremy Farrar will have the money (Â£14.5 billion at the last count), a unique platform, and a crack team of staff to draw on (including seasoned pros like Ted Bianco, Clare Matterson and David Lynn, and more recent star signings like Mark "Geek Manifesto" Henderson). But with all that power comes heightened responsibility. And an organisation that has proved impressively effective, but hasn't always needed to be as transparent and accountable as its public counterparts, will have to keep pace with the demands and expectations of scientists, policymakers, the media and the public.James Wilsdon is professor of science and democracy at the University of Sussex and is on Twitter @jameswilsdonScience policyJames Wilsdonguardian.co.uk © 2013 <img src=""> Guardian News and Media Limited or <img src=""> its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds    Saint Mary's had a big concern coming into the NCAA tournament's First Four. Its career scoring leader suddenly couldn't hit a shot. 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It would be a significant step towards a more consistent and fair approach from the governing body following a season when a disparity in suspensions across a number of high-profile decisions has been stark.During a Premier League season that has seen John Terry banned for four matches for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand and Luis SuÃ¡rez suspended for 10 games for biting Branislav Ivanovic, it is a cause for concern that reckless and dangerous tackles capable of career-ending injuries can still escape punishment if the referee reports that he or his fellow officials saw the incident in some way at the time.Liverpool criticised the SuÃ¡rez verdict on Thursday, Brendan Rodgers saying the punishment "was against the man and not the decision" and Pepe Reina describing it as "absurd and unfair".SuÃ¡rez's act was so <img src=""> outrageous that the decision to act swiftly <img src=""> and decisively was an easy one for the FA. The debate on the length of the ban will rage but the more serious issue is why his biting offence warranted a suspension more than double the one handed out to Terry for abusing Ferdinand. The confusion is compounded by SuÃ¡rez being suspended eight matches for racial abuse the previous season.The <a href = "">forex growth bot download </a> acknowledged that a change is needed regarding disciplinary tariffs for racial and discrimination offences. It is due to be implemented before <img src=""> the start of next season after ratification by the semi-autonomous Football Regulatory Authority. 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The challenge was seen by the referee, Mark Halsey, and therefore <img src=""> escaped further action, despite Newcastle describing the FA's disciplinary process as "not fit for purpose".There have been other challenges this season that have passed by the disciplinary commission. Chelsea's David Luiz left the Brentford teenager Jake Reeves <img src=""> concussed following a reckless shoulder charge in the FA Cup, before the Brazilian was on the receiving end of a two-footed lunge by Sergio AgÃ¼ero in the semi-final of the competition against Manchester City that was seen by the referee, Chris Foy, but not deemed even a booking. Only last week Andy Carroll flew head-first into David de Gea and escaped retrospective punishment.SuÃ¡rez's biting incident fell under the FA's umbrella of "exceptional circumstances" and was open to later action. The exceptional circumstances, though, only include off-the-ball incidents, meaning challenges such as Wayne Rooney's reckless elbow on James McCarthy the season before last are exempt. The only exception to that rule came in 2006 when Ben Thatcher shoulder-charged Pedro Mendes and left the midfielder on a stretcher and requiring oxygen â€“ Thatcher was banned for eight games.The difficulty lies in this grey area of exceptional circumstances. After the McManaman incident the <img src=""> Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said: "I don't think anybody in the Premier League, perhaps bar Wigan, would have complained had they decided this was exceptional â€¦ it looked to most of us that was an exceptional incident."The FA fears that any rule changes would open the floodgates for hundreds of cases to be heard every season. Any shift in policy would have to be agreed by Fifa, one of its stakeholders, and <img src=""> the FA stresses that every case is uniquely different â€“ how can one compare biting <a href = "">fat burning furnace pdf </a> or racism with an elbow to the face?There may not be a one-size-fits-all approach but Germany and France operate a system of retrospective action. Last month the Nice player Valentin Eysseric was banned for 11 matches for a leg-breaking tackle on Saint Etienne's JÃ©rÃ©my ClÃ©ment.The FA deserves praise for its swift handling of the SuÃ¡rez case. Yet, when more serious challenges continue to be overlooked, changes need to be made to avoid another season of confusion and conflict.The FALuis SuÃ¡rezJames Riachguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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