US brain drain effects for the next generation will be brutal.
What’s worse to me is the idea of more and more of the scientists who oppose this regime are now gone, so what kind of scientists are left in the US? It’s not just drain, it’s likely a hard rightward shift of disciplines within the country. Fascism loves a scientist without morals.
We’ve already seen this in medical, with Dr Oz being promoted to a leadership position in the government. And now, since Measles has made a comeback, he’s floundering trying to get a pro-vaccine message out, since oh shit, it turns out traditional doctors who actually listened in med school instead of just paying professors off whilst doing bumps in the dorm room were actually right. Who’da thought?
We started applying after Jan 6th. Once there was no real response holding those leading a violent coup to overthrow the nation, it was time to go. It took years, but away we are.
The GOP has spent decades cancelling my grants and fucking with my career. The lastest round of cancellations this year is just a swansong and a final goodbye. Fuck em, I’ll teach engineers in Europe instead. Added bonuses: real healthcare, my kids won’t have huge student loan debt, the trains go everywhere, and the food is better.
Unfortunately, I’m barely monolingual in English. If you have any recommendations for expats, I’d love to hear them - especially for someone that only knows English.
UK, Ireland, Luxembourg.
The more niche your field is, the more acceptable English will be anyway everywhere else.
that photo looks like it’s from the 80s
That photo looks like it’s from a dope new indie band.
Yes.
Made me think of the uh, American Apparel style of photography, sans showing as much skin as is (or isn’t) legally permissible.
I’m constantly befuddled as to which decade it even is when it comes to fashion. I keep seeing young girls wearing those shirts that came straight out of the 80s - those big shirts that come off one shoulder. No idea what they are called. I haven’t seen those things in since forever - until the past few years.
At the same time, I just saw a gaggle of teens/early 20s kids crossing the road, and one of the girls was wearing a pair of those huge tracksuit pants that I haven’t seen since early rave days.
I’m sure there has been fashion in the 00, teens, and now 20s, but most of it seems rather light touch or didn’t last long, or spins on stuff from earlier decades…
You should see the mix of trends on college campuses rn. Midriff shirts and big pants are somehow back.
Gross inherited wealth is the societal version of terminal cancer. It is the actual underlying problem that has gone unsolved. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans. No amount of money can replace meritocratic hierarchy at scale. As long as that issue goes unaddressed, this place will crash and burn. Anything beyond an upper middle-class trust for life must be forfeit. That one change eliminates every problem person you know by name.
I’m confused…The entire world spent about $55B a year on Biomedical research, with the US employing thousands through the NIH with a $40B/yr budget. Now, the $40B is gone.
What are these scientists going to do in Europe or Canada?, because NONE of those governments of G8 have increased research funding and in Canada, 90% of grant proposals are not funded. So yeah, scientists are moving back to home countries to be cab drivers while governments waste billions on military purchases.
As for the US, 0% of basic research that leads to new drugs was done by Pharma. They cut off the heads of all their pipelines to what was a $T industry.
All this says China may be the place to go if you can do math in your head.
My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.
they are snapping up as many scientists as they can.
And have they increased the research budget to pay for all this research? Nope.
