A new law in Montenegro aimed at strengthening science and innovation for development has sparked a war of words between the country’s two science academies, including a call for the country’s science minister to be replaced.

The law, adopted by the government on 1 December, aims to bring the country’s two science academies under one roof. The older one, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (CANU), was established in 1971 when Montenegro was still in a federation with its bigger neighbor, Serbia, and was trying to reestablish its own identity. But in 1998, some scientists who felt CANU was acting as a pro-Serbian political organization started their own academy. It was called the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU)—Duklja (Doclea) being a 10th century state considered to be the first independent Montenegrin state.

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Mićo Tatalović is a news editor at Research Professional News. He has previously worked as a science news editor at Nature, New Scientist, and SciDev.Net. In 2018, he completed the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, where he researched the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in science journalism. He is also immediate former chairman of the Association of British Science Writers, and a board member of the European Federation for Science Journalism.

He runs the section Balkan Science Beat.

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