The brain drain will be when scientists are forced into other careers/jobs so that they can keep paying the bills. They will never return.
There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.
There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.
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Edward Nirenberg
On a basic level- you can't expect US talent to sit on their hands and wait until maybe, hopefully there's a job for them. A handful might be able to do that, but the majority are going to leave. Countries are actively seeking to take advantage of US brain drain.
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i am so fucking bored.
It takes years to build a lab and assemble a talented team.
And yet, I remain hopeful that there will be a renaissance after this dark age
Lots of trepanning was still happening during The Renaissance, so your mileage might vary. 😉
The EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-brain-drain-academic-research-progressive-institutions/
... but does leaving academia have to be final? Why do we treat experience outside academia as a black mark?
Especially under such extreme circumstances, maintaining this prejudice puzzles me.
i left academia over a decade ago, but after a year or so trying to get orthogonal work, i gave up and now i work menial bullshit that is at least enough to pay the bills mostly.
i'd love to get back to it but i am averse to retraumatizing myself
Coming back was still doable, but now I'm almost two years behind people who did start postdocs immediately after their PhD. Another year, and there would have been no point returning.
Do you move for a job funded by a year-over-year grant that would usually renew but now has a low likelihood of doing so at the end of the current cycle? Many people won't.
I took a few years to pay my student loans off, the ones that had me side hustling on the weekend instead of being at the last lab I worked at (an Ivy.)
You can't fucking win.