aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
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These Republicans want regression in our society.
Authoritarian countries face brain drain of the best & brightest. For decades we had easy access to cream of the crop students from around the world attending our universities. Same for attracting mid-career experts willing to bring or build their families here.
Not so much now!
Your oppression is their profession.
“The National Institutes of Health has been the primary funder of the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) since 1985. The program supports a brain bank that accepts more than 200 donations yearly and is preserving more than 4,000 brains.”
My MD PhD student's NIH fellowship was terminated, Irma's
R01 application was removed from the CMAD Study Section.
Scientists working & training in the USA are having a Galileo moment.
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Drumpf will not attract investment, tourism or trade. Foreign students will no longer come to the US. US scientists will leave the country.
it’s a combo of anti-vax, anti-climate, anti-education, pro-techbro capitalism and ethnonationalism
they resent others having power including doctors and scientists (but not just us ofc)
but the baker lab is HUGE and I am sure your daughter will tell you more then half the lab is people who are not US citizens so the OP, that they are looking for jobs overseas, is sort of clickbait BS
sorry or not sorry cause as I tell my son, also doing a PhD
The goal of the PhD is to graduate; all other considerations are secondary, and I'm only half joking !!
we are trashing the greatist biomedical research culture in the world for nothing; historical blunder
tRump has reversed the brain drain that flowed into America. This makes America weaker.
I would just add, as someone who got a PhD/biochem in 1985, that in the 1980s and 90s there was very little, if any cutting edge research from China (maybe there was, but it was hidden ?) and now China is doing a lot of world class research - this was really obvious as far back as Obama
America, before tRump, was the mecca for scientific research.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347411/scientists-trump-research-national-academies-open-letter
just want to point out something that may not be obvious:
the Baker lab is very, VERY unusual - sort of like comparing Simon Biles to your avg gymnast
His lab is so offscale, in so many ways, not sure that it is a good model - it maybe or it might not be (dunno)
I got a PhD/biochem in 1984
at that time, China was a science backwater, at least in biochem
Starting about 15 years ago, China is now a world leader
so not sure
The US has thrown away its good name and future.
And I support them in their decision.
Eventually all of my grandparents ended up in California, 1900's. Now my kids' kids will likely be Canadian.
You could start by looking at the pay and the toxic work environments, I guess.
that steal their opportunity to realize their full potential and our opportunity to reap the rewards as Americans and human beings
It is still incredibly stupid and obviously damaging for America, however.
"stolen" here means "taken from you unlawfully and/or unjustly"
ex: you're not owed a car, but if you have one, it can be stolen at criminal law (grand larceny) or confiscated by the authorities under civil law (asset forfeiture)
Shocker.🙄
China is attempting to steal our med professional talent;
The propaganda being released by both is designed to make opportunities look fabulous
Do we really believe that if we lose our talent pool
They will ever be allowed to return to the US?
thanks for the cold water on my naive hope that maybe Science can just fly away somewhere safe and pick up where it left off
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