Most Scientists Consider Leaving the U.S.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers.

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American scientists have long worked abroad, but recruitment efforts are increasing due to cuts by the Trump administration.

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-- NPR (@npr.org) March 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Moscow couldn't be happier with Putin's --- dumpster.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-29 10:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This happened in Germany. In the '30s.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-29 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

America is becoming a -------- of uneducated and willfully stupid sheep.

The scientists, true diplomats, any real freethinkers, will leave the country if they can.

Yahoos are running the show and the Sane have no courage of their convictions.

Looking to "Compromise" with Trump is Cowardly and won't be anything but surrender of any real resistance to this far from normal state of affairs.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-03-29 11:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I can't blame them.

#4 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-29 06:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Science is woke. So is education.

#5 | Posted by cbob at 2025-03-30 05:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

For younger folks with marketable talents/skills, consider a place where people take the idea of a social contract seriously.
America, simply put, is no longer trustworthy in that department.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-30 05:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trumpf's war on woke: Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts." www.theregister.com

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-30 06:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Intelligence is woke

#8 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-03-30 09:59 AM | Reply

Hopefully it's Fauci but that ------------ should be hung

#9 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-03-30 12:05 PM | Reply

#9
Still obsessing on an old man's --------.
Weird.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-30 12:51 PM | Reply

Hopefully it's Fauci but that ------------ should be hung

#9 | Posted by THEBULL

Gotta love it when ignorant piles of s(*& call for people's execution because their ignorant pile of s(*& opinion differs.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-30 01:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If your entire life had been on the cutting edge scientific research and your funding stopped because the country around you became hostile and as wary of scientists as Salem's Puritans were of so-called "witches", would you stay? And if universities or corporations in France, England, Germany, Sweden, Panama, Brazil, Israel, or Japan, etc, would welcome you, would you stay?

#12 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-03-31 01:20 AM | Reply

When a government endorses and pushes ignorance while denigrating knowledge and expertise you're no longer on a train; you've hooked up with a sewage barge.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-31 07:08 AM | Reply

JPW, are you having a 50% off sale before you leave?

#14 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-31 10:15 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's what $cientist do when the money runs out. Just look at JPW, when the government refused anymore student loans, he got a shift leader position in the truck stop bathhouse.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-31 12:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oh no! We might never find out how genders there are! Anyway...

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-31 12:41 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Oh no! We might never find out how genders there are! Anyway...

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-31 12:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

And heaven forbid should we find out if bears actually ---- in the woods.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-31 01:04 PM | Reply

"Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism, commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy and the dismissal of art, literature, history, and science as impractical, politically motivated, and even contemptible human pursuits."

Answers the question of how to become a -------- nation, doesn't' it?

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 01:27 PM | Reply

Answers the question of how to become a -------- nation, doesn't' it?

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 01:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

Just shut up queenie. You fluffed your pom poms as Biden flooded the country with diseased people.

#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-31 04:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"flooded the country with diseased people."

Literal Nazi rhetoric.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 04:43 PM | Reply

flooded the country with diseased people.

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Well, that neatly explains you.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 04:49 PM | Reply

diseased people.

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Racism saves no one.

Get vaxxed.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 04:50 PM | Reply

flooded the country with diseased people.

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Some of us are old enough to remember when Trump would not shut down flight from China at a momnent when that might have done some good with COVID.

This, of course, set the stage for the mass Republican die-off when MAGA offered themselves and their children for literal sacrifice in the same way some Philistine might have done for Baal circa 750 B.C.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 04:53 PM | Reply

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You represent a backwards and sick sub-culture. Now matter how hard you fight for it, it just stays backward and sick.

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 04:54 PM | Reply

Even Though my money is on Truthurts being the first of you DR libs to ---- his wrist the more I read from you, I hope you beat Truthy.

#25 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-31 05:00 PM | Reply

25 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER

Oh, hell, son. I am going to outlive you.

But thank you for the well wishes.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 05:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Shocker the dregs of the DR barrel show up to prove how anti-intellectualism and maga go hand in hand.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-31 08:20 PM | Reply

"flooded the country with diseased people."

Literal Nazi rhetoric.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 04:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Nazi rhetoric would be my government telling me I have to take a shot or lose my job, when foreigners are pouring into the country and receiving handouts and never tested for anything.

#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-31 08:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Nazi rhetoric would be my government telling me I have to take a shot or lose my job"

You don't have a job.

But, if you joined the Army, you would not be allowed to refuse your shots and keep your job. So Nazi is already here and you never once complained about it.

Also, it isn't rhetoric. Rhetoric means words. You are describing an action.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 08:58 PM | Reply

"when foreigners are pouring into the country and receiving handouts"

Yeah. Trump refuses to put an end to that...

"and never tested for anything"

Just what are you getting tested for, that they aren't?

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 09:00 PM | Reply

#29
Some of us had decent careers and invested wisely. Sorry 7-Eleven didn't pan out for you. You should look up JPW, he's got a new career buster going on at the Flying-J. Maybe you could get in on an assist. Of course, you'll likely need to take some blood work tests, so there's that.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-31 09:27 PM | Reply

Snoofy if you want a job at the Flying J get your teeth kicked out. Gummers pay. If you need help I still have an old pair of steel toe boots I can put on.

#32 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-03-31 09:41 PM | Reply

"Some of us had decent careers and invested wisely."

So you were lying.
The government never told you get vaccinated or quit.
Glad we cleared that up.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 09:50 PM | Reply