Inspired by Maxine Clarke, on her blog Nautilus, we’ve started posting weekly roundups of the best conversations on Nature Network, the first one being here. Check it out every Monday. You’ll find it on the homepage and the network snapshot in the ’what’s new’ box. If you’ve seen and/or participated in a good discussion, let us know (network at nature.com) and we’ll include it in the weekly summary.

I wanted to point out one item that’s stimulating quite a bit of talk. A commentary in last week’s Nature about academic misconduct calls on research institutions to develop a zero-tolerance policy and to provide better safeguards against whistleblowers. The authors, one of whom is the director of intramural research at the federal government’s Office of Research Integrity (ORI), discuss a survey they did which found 3 incidents of likely misconduct out of 100 researchers per year.

The discussion stemming from this commentary here on NN has been interesting. One comment was quite critical of the ORI, saying that it’s up to them to set the tone among academic leaders. Another puts the blame on journal editors. A third person says that accrediting bodies or other regulatory agencies have a role to play. Have your say and post a comment on the thread.