Simply holding a meeting is becoming increasingly difficult for the leadership of France's top science agencies as the unionists and researcher-protesters get more and more disruptive. In June, representatives of the trade unions and the researchers' movement Sauvons la Recherche developed a new protest tactic: To prevent a vote on hotly debated restructuring of the research agency CNRS, they simply occupied the meeting room of the 21-member Board of Trustees, forcing CNRS director Catherine Bréchignac to cancel the meeting [...]