We can expect an accelerating brain drain--and talented academics who will no longer come to America.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

We can expect an accelerating brain drain—and talented academics who will no longer come to America.

— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T12:27:44.062Z

We can expect an accelerating brain drain—and talented academics who will no longer come to America.

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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T00:50:36.963Z

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.


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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/europe-universities-us-researchers-trump-administration-science

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts
Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Laced with terms such as “censorship” and “political interference”, the Belgium-based jobs advert was far from typical. The promise of academic freedom, however, hinted at who it was aimed at: researchers in the US looking to flee the funding freezes, cuts and ideological impositions ushered in by Donald Trump’s administration.

“We see it as our duty to come to the aid of our American colleagues,” said Jan Danckaert, the rector of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in explaining why his university – founded in 1834 to safeguard academia from the interference of church or state – had decided to open 12 postdoctoral positions for international researchers, with a particular focus on Americans.

“American universities and their researchers are the biggest victims of this political and ideological interference,” Danckaert said in a statement. “They’re seeing millions in research funding disappear for ideological reasons.”

[Skittles]

1. once again, it will harm my country yet I cannot blame them

FUCK EVERYONE who voted for that fascist fuck Trump

[Irish_Dem]

2. PhD scientists have put in tremendous work and hardship to get where they are.

Nothing is handed to them. They work very hard for everything.
And the pressure to perform is relentless.

They are not going to throw it all away and stay in the US waiting tables.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Only 6% of American scientists were Republican...

... in 2009. It has to be even lower now!

You're correct. With the GOP even more authoritarian, anti-intellectual and anti-truth, there's far less chance that people devoted to learning will want to be here.


https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
"Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans."

[tulipsandroses]

4. How can America be great if we don't have the best thinkers and innovators?

Its like we are living in the dark ages, where education, enlightenment have no place in this society.