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jeffjarvis.bsky.social • 1 day ago

A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/french-university-scientific-asylum-american-talent-brain-drain

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holminjone.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oui, Oui - what academic wouldn't like to walk around Paris or the Mediterranean coast.

Instead of being surrounded by book burning idiots 🤔😂😅

palmvegas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Vive la France

darksimz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup they're also planning some support here in the Netherlands. Everyone can use top notch scientists. First they fled Europe because of war, now they're fleeing back because of fascism again.
Be the country scientists want to flee to.

prairieisle.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is good to hear. Will share this with friends that have been impacted by all the cut backs

elizabethrivian.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The brain drain is in progress. France is not the only nation looking for American scientists.

tom4okstate.bsky.social•1 day ago

The rest is the world will strip u.s. STEM for parts.

annekin1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sure every Democratic country is doing this. It would be idiotic not to.

cafetelaviv.bsky.social•1 day ago

#braindrain

nik4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agree and everyone looking to come needs to be rigorously vetted to make sure they are not Trump supporters. Because you know those cowards will abandon their own country if they feel any type of struggle. No Trumpers can stay in Trumpland.

sunflowerroot1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Won’t just be researchers. Physicians as well while we face a shortage here at home.

nik4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those given asylum need to go through rigorous background checks to make sure they aren’t Trump supporters. I have seen enough scientists say I voted Trump but not for this to know that not all scientists are leftists. They do not belong in Europe. They can stay in America. Let’s not repeat

nik4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

What America did by bringing the Nazis over.

diamondwantstoknow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, they were invited over to America.

jfsnmar10.bsky.social•1 day ago

This sounds like an inverted University of Göttingen brain drain from Nazi Germany to the United States.

Of course, the US ended up with the atomic bomb and global domination and Germany ended up with the Volkswagen Beetle.

cowgirl52.bsky.social•1 day ago

Russia lost there's when they invaded Ukraine!

souleater1212.bsky.social•3 hours ago

ak-fella.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ironically, this is actually what Trump wants.

donlinn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reports are that Cambridge and Oxford (and likely others) are doing the same thing. The brain drain could cost us a generation or more of scientists and the associated advances in their respective fields. Tragic.

wallawalla-99.bsky.social•1 day ago

On the bright side, the US will be the undisputed world leaders in snake oil and homeopathic medicine

tjaye.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sure this is happening in the intelligence agencies as well.

markroemers.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the Netherlands the government is creating funds for scientists that want to continue their research here.

Let dumb America down.

bbmjcandy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Take advantage of the opportunity to continue your research! Get out of here while you can. Thank you!

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