> America’s Great Brain Drain https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/09/americas-great-brain-drain/
#Gringoville 's loss is the world's good fortune. Heck, if I could, I'd be gone already too.
"European leaders unveiled a new initiative Monday to entice U.S. scientists to bring their expertise across the Atlantic. They’re calling it 'Choose Europe for Science,' and it will allocate €500 million ($565 million U.S.) over the next three years to 'make Europe a magnet for researchers' from around the world."
https://www.europesays.com/2058719/ Brain drain: Με το σταγονόμετρο η επιστροφή των ταλέντων στην Ελλάδα – Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος #BrainDrain #BrainGain #greece #Ελλάδα #νεα
Europe launches drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump freezes US funding https://www.byteseu.com/986285/ #BrainDrain #EmmanuelMacron #eu #Europe #EuropeanCommission #France #paris #PresidentTrump #Research #ResearchGrants #researchers #Science #scientists #Sorbonne #TrumpAdministration #UrsulaVonDerLeyen
Eating Our Seed Corn #ABlueView
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Emmanuel Macron Pres. of France: “Nobody could imagine... that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program... It was unthinkable...
I wonder if third and fourth generation immigrants living outside of the USA will say "Oh I'm an USAsian Australian!" or "I'm an American German!" and come back to some random bar in the middle of Ohio and claim that their great-great-grandmother was from "this town!" and see if they can get a drink for free.
"The European Union & France on Monday announced half a billion euros worth of incentives to lure scientists to the continent, seeking to profit from U.S. President Donald Trump's federal funding cuts and clashes with top US universities."
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe | France | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/04/france-eu-us-based-scientists-come-to-europe-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen
Why French executives lead so many foreign corporate giants.
French nationals head about 30 major foreign companies whose total market capitalisation amounts to $2 trillion.
This phenomenon highlights both the success of French managerial training and a brain drain.
@kjhealy BTW, the #EuropeanUnion prepares a welcoming program (including funding) for US scientists and students. Some universities already practise it, e.g. in France.
The USA will have a #braindrain ... so their president will feel better. 
science #scientists #USScience
Earlier this week, #NSF leadership also introduced a new policy directing staff members to screen #grant proposals for “topics or activities that may not be in alignment with agency priorities”. Proposals judged not “in alignment” must be returned to the applicants by NSF employees. The policy has not been made public but was described in documents seen by Nature.
The policy prevents the #NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic #research, from awarding new research #grants & from supplying allotted funds for existing grants, such as those that receive yearly increments of money. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze & says that it will last “until further notice”.
Exclusive: #NSF stops awarding new #grants & #funding existing ones
US #science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’ [whatever those are now]
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” acc/to an email seen by Nature.
#Trump #BrainDrain #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #research #innovation #progress
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
#science #fascism #history #BrainDrain #déjà_vu
"We’ve also experienced deep foundational cuts to pillars of scientific success in the USA and the world: NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and much more.
(. . .)
Although many are still in denial about it, this is a classic anti-democracy, pro-fascism move. Project 2025 co-architect and director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, has publicly stated what the goals of these moves are. 'The impact is intimidation and fear… We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work…. We want to put them in trauma.
But the world successfully fought back against fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, and we can do so again today. After all, history has laid out our roadmap for doing so, and many scientists led the way. Here’s how.
(. . .)
It’s important to recognize that fascism has been fought before, including by scientists, quite successfully over the long-term. There was a mass exodus of scientists from Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s, including Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Max Born, Eugene Wigner, Hans Krebs, Edward Teller, Erwin Schrödinger, Wilhelm Feldberg, along with future scientists Lilli Hornig and Dieter Gruen. The so-called 'brain drain,' was lauded by Hitler himself, who responded to Max Planck’s petition to stop the dismissal of scientists on political grounds by saying,
'Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.'
This echoed a similar 1933 statement Hitler made when Carl Bosch, then the head of IG Farben, advised that the dismissal of Jewish scientists from Germany would set physics and chemistry back by 100 years: 'Then we’ll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.' But this was a wrongheaded move on Hitler’s part in every way. In fact, in post-World War II scholarship, the exodus of top-tier scientists from Nazi Germany (and surrounding countries beginning in 1938/9) has become known as Hitler’s gift, because of the substantial benefits reaped by those countries where those exiled scientists eventually landed."
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/1938-science-manifesto-democracy-fascism/
https://youtube.com/shorts/craJNfT5wJw?si=p9FfG2v5OIzdIXm6 #europe #canada #australia #uk recruit #academics in #science due to #braindrain in #usa from #trump anti-science policies - other countries win at USA's expense - yeah!!
Populisme en extreem rechts gaan niet samen met rationeel beleid en wetenschap. Of het nu in de VS is of in Nederland.
#Wetenschap
#Braindrain
#Bezuinigen
#Toekomst
#Economie
#NL
#USA
He is such an idiot, but I am so glad this decision has been made and am much relieved for the students/graduates. Somebody told him what "brain drain" is, I guess. #KrasnovTheKrazy #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-student-visa-cancellations.html
Josef Penninger, wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer des Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung in Braunschweig plädiert für einen Ansatz, von dem nicht nur die amerikanischen Forschungstalente profitieren.
