Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US brain drain
Researchers in the United States are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump's administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature's jobs-board data.
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... Data from the Nature Careers global science jobs platform show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024. At the same time, the number of US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. In March alone, as the administration intensified its cuts to science, views rose by 68% compared with the same month last year. More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS were abruptly terminated last month. Cuts to grants from the US National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 research were revealed, and the government began a US$400-million reduction in research grants at Columbia University in New York City, because of campus protests supporting Palestinians in the conflict with Israel. "To see this big drop in views and applications to the US -- and the similar rise in those looking to leave -- is unprecedented," says James Richards, who leads the Global Talent Solutions team at Springer Nature, which includes the Nature Careers multidisciplinary science jobs board. As this article went to press, the board hosted 983 live vacancies. ...
In March alone, as the administration intensified its cuts to science, views rose by 68% compared with the same month last year.
More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS were abruptly terminated last month. Cuts to grants from the US National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 research were revealed, and the government began a US$400-million reduction in research grants at Columbia University in New York City, because of campus protests supporting Palestinians in the conflict with Israel.
"To see this big drop in views and applications to the US -- and the similar rise in those looking to leave -- is unprecedented," says James Richards, who leads the Global Talent Solutions team at Springer Nature, which includes the Nature Careers multidisciplinary science jobs board. As this article went to press, the board hosted 983 live vacancies. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-22 03:06 PM | Reply
This is how Albert Einstein left Germany and took up residence at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Republicans are intentionally destroying eighty years of bipartisan American postwar gains.
#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-22 03:18 PM | Reply
@#2
MADA - Make America Dark Ages
#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-22 03:44 PM | Reply
"This is a good thing, actually, because ____________" - MAGA
#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-22 04:07 PM | Reply
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