Trump’s Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad Amid Cuts to Research Funding in U.S.
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Cuts by the Trump administration are beginning to “chase” U.S.-based scientists at federal agencies and research institutions out of the country. “We’re draining our scientific talent,” says environmental journalist Robert Hunziker, who explains how China and European countries are offering positions for scientists laid off, fired or pushed out by Trump and DOGE’s mass culling of federal workers and funding. The massive U.S. “brain drain” is a “brain gain” for other countries, adds Hunziker, and comes as the Trump administration also cracks down on university curriculums and targets international students for its mass deportation initiative.
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    12·
    2 days ago

    All dictatorships go after science and education. People who think are their enemies. Keeping the populace dumb is how dictators stay in power. So much so that you can almost tell how much a country has turned authoritatian by how many thinking people leave it.

  • blakenongEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    There should be an agency that works to get you out of the country. You pay a fee and they find the best country for you, and get you there.

    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
      4·
      2 days ago

      They do exist, at least for some countries. They help with visas, bank accounts, bureaucratic things like tax IDs and such, and finding a place to stay. Of course, some places are easier to move to that others.