Nearly 300 academics have applied to a French university’s offer to take in US-based researchers rattled by the American government’s crackdown on academia, as a former French president called for the creation of a “scientific refugee” status for academics in peril.
Big France W!
I recall people threatening to move to Canada during the first Trump elections. You know it’s bad when people are actually trying to get to France.
My German Visa was just approved. Off to a university asap. We take two STEM professors with kids going into engineering as a group out of the US. I have a feeling we’re just the leading edge of the sluice gates opening.
Glückwunsch und Willkommen :-)
Good luck! Stay safe
90 years ago, Germans were coming to America. Today, the flow is the other direction. History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.
I wish i was valuable enough to be able to leave, but i dont have any important skills, and I spent the last 12 years exercising my 1st Amendment rights on Reddit before being permabanned in the post Inauguration bloodbath. They’ve got my post history, and sooner or later the list of people to oppress will reach my name.
good luck.
Best of luck to you all
Awesome, good luck and welcome!
if only they had options for bs/ms degree holder in stems. the job market was pretty poor before trump, and its only getting worst under him.
There is a visa you can get in the uk which I’m considering for bs/ms holders within the past 5 years from specific schools that I’m seriously considering. The problem is it’s only for 2 years (3 with a phd)
Yeah I feel like I’m fucked because I’m an engineer and not a scientist
engineer might be able to find work in other countries? which kind are you?
Chemical
operation file attachment, since we’re in the 21st century
I would have recommended stapler, but that works as well
I was hoping a European country would do this but it also does not boad well for how unstable America is.
It’s over already. It’s going to take decades to come back from this, if at all since the reputation is shaken at the core, and that is very difficult to rebuild.
The funding cuts and uncertainty and stifling is speech is shocking, but this is already affecting young scientists. There are cuts to summer research stipends, grant pausing means no work for some researchers. It’s the future that will really hurt when we don’t have those scientists since they either didn’t pursue science or went to other countries.
America has held a very central seat of science for quite some time, but that’s done. Europe is going to replace is—and already is. It’s a shame too since American higher Ed is structurally setup to be much more agile in how it pursues inquiry.
without systemic change to ensure this doesn’t happen again, the world is done with simple trust of america… it’ll take decades and change that im almost certain america is incapable of… or other guarantees
kinda was bad before too, because they have to frame grant applications in a way that doesnt point to something climate change or someone as the sole cause of the reason they are researching. alot of phds left thier fields over having to do grant writing more than what they became a PHD for.
Brain drain.
Well done France!
Must be nice.
