America doesn’t deserve its best educated anymore. The world needs to start making offers to have scholars and researchers move abroad and do their research in places where their abilities are respected. - ThreadSky

manmademoon.bsky.social • 83 days ago

America doesn’t deserve its best educated anymore. The world needs to start making offers to have scholars and researchers move abroad and do their research in places where their abilities are respected.

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So they’re cutting funding to programs meant to help autistic folks access accommodations and banning efforts to make spaces more inclusive but pouring money into debunked Andrew Wakefieldism that frames autism as a bad outcome that’s worth not preventing diseases that used to kill millions of kids

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nonnygoats.bsky.social•82 days ago

I’m taking offers. Actually looking into phd programs abroad.

thegameveda.bsky.social•83 days ago

This will mostly involve my Indian cousins not falling for Trump's Gold Card scam, the way my Indian cousins fell for the Green Card Indentured Servitude scam

thebigredape.bsky.social•83 days ago

And British film directors too😉

jasongorman.bsky.social•83 days ago

raspyman.bsky.social•83 days ago

The question is - do we finally arrive at the understanding, the country is being ran by people who hate intelligence and substitute instead "common sense", and get while the getting is good. Or do we stay and try to win over a population who, if the barbarians are at the gate, say 'OPEN THE GATE!"?

leonryan.bsky.social•83 days ago

and then the remainder of the US can become the hybrid Wild West/Thunderdome it's always dreamt of being

adamsessler.bsky.social•83 days ago

Have you read Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story” which details a world like that among predicting many, many other things of our current timeline?

manmademoon.bsky.social•83 days ago

I have not. Going to look it up now.

kwestking.bsky.social•83 days ago

America is late onset schizophrenic and bipolar.

montisboeher.bsky.social•83 days ago

We have a whole lot of folks who think they could thrive in a zombie apocalypse who are about to learn some very important life lessons. Like staph infections. And tetanus.

pixiey99.bsky.social•83 days ago

The measles 🤷🏼‍♀️

turtlew.bsky.social•83 days ago

100%

theaudra77.bsky.social•83 days ago

And what about the other people..... Some of us are very well educated, but not scholars or researchers. I'm sitting here laid off with an IQ of 156 and really good training and skills.... Your statement leaves me out. So many others too. We would like to leave and contribute elsewhere too.

manmademoon.bsky.social•83 days ago

Researchers who can’t get research grants in America are the issue. They are the ones who are going to help us survive the road ahead. If you can do that, then I would advise countries around the world to parachute you out too. Having a high IQ is not the requisite, though. Creating knowledge is.

theaudra77.bsky.social•83 days ago

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you needed to be a scholar to do that. I am a very smart individual, who wasn't afforded the option of college until later in life and still cannot afford it, this doesn't take away from my skill set to be able to assist our country.

fransi1803.bsky.social•83 days ago

That will happen naturally as people realise their field is valued elsewhere

manmademoon.bsky.social•83 days ago

I’m offering up to the zeitgeist that it be accelerated.

pixiey99.bsky.social•83 days ago

I’m literally trying to get my daughter to find a study abroad internship or something to get her out of the US. She’ll be 3rd year UC in the fall. Sociology. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 Seems like a good choice considering this all gonna be studied for decades 😭

rotortorture.bsky.social•83 days ago

Meanwhile, companies in China hire thousands of scholars - not only in the production line but also working in creating and expanding standards, making sure they have the edge in new tech. The west stopped doing this in the 90’s because short-termism.

fluwijntjes.bsky.social•83 days ago

Last week there was an article in the biggest Dutch news agency's app, that the government was looking into getting scientists from places where they don't have the freedom to do their work in safety, like, among others, the US. here's also talk of changing to European companies for cloud services

greyblueiris.bsky.social•83 days ago

Operation Trump Clip.

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