Researchers want to avoid a situation from last week in which a professor, banned from his university for substantiated sexual misconduct claims, showed up at the Society for American Archaeology conference.

Only after the accusations appeared on Twitter did Vanderbilt suspend neuroscientist David Sweatt.

The measures include, in specific cases, terminating awards for researchers who have been found guilty in investigations by their institutions.

Fellow faculty members aren’t happy about it.

Accusations that Nazneen Rahman bullied employees at the Institute of Cancer Research in the U.K. stretch back 12 years.

Todd Heatherton had groped students, according to allegations, and was facing termination.

The UK-based biomedical research charity says researchers or institutions that fail to report misconduct will risk losing grants.

The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.

Ambiguous rules and absent consequences are linked to harassment.