This move is nothing more than a political dissent.

You think money/funding and other opportunities have nothing to do with it?

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-11 12:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

There have been funding cuts to areas of higher education, but I can't tell if any of that directly impacted what he was doing. Then there's the interview he did with NYT expressing his displeasure with Trump and his immigration policies.

Then this,

"Dr. Yaghi has longstanding ties with Tsinghua University. In 2022, the Beijing school appointed him as an honorary professor and in that role he closely followed its work in chemistry, materials science and related disciplines.

Now, on joining Tsinghua full time, Dr. Yaghi is being named as the head of a new A.I. institute for science research that will focus on the design and synthesis of new materials."