La Francia prepara un fondo per ospitare ricercatori americani minacciati da Trump
https://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/education/la-france-prepare-un-fonds-pour-accueillir-des-chercheurs-americains-menaces-par-trump-2156174
di Melia-Antiqua
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That’s smart, I mean if the world brightest scientists have no future in the US, which is the leading country for research (at least in my field), it only makes sense to host them here. Europe is truly the last fortress of freedom and democracy in the world, sigh 🙁
Honestly this is just so dumb. Having excellent research is much less about the researchers and much more about the research facilities, funding opportunities and quality of the existing research groups. Actions such as this only create an even more competitive field for European researchers and it is not going to do anything to improve the quality of our research. Politicians..
Insane that it already has come to scientific refuge and travel advices sharpened by multiple countries. It’d almost be impressive if it wasn’t so damn depressive how one admin can destroy a country relatively unopposed.
Could be a smart move
But we gotta be beware of average people that got kicked out of their USA uni,
And don’t necessarily merit a place above our own thousands of European PhD students ,
In the ratrace towards a .permanent University research position
That’s smart. Every government should do that, an EU fund would be even better.
Operation Paperclip 2.0?
I feel sorry for American scientists, but I feel more sorry for potential scientists in Yemen, Palestine, Syria or Myanmar. Why are we so keen to fund one group of people, but neglect the other group of people? And there is an insane competition in Europe for professorships among our own young scientists. Let American scientists fight for their country, together with their fellow humanists, instead of giving them an easy way out.
I’ve commented this exact thing twice before already. France pay your own goddamn researchers first, Europe does NOT lack talent.
Trump will cause a brain drain from the USA
The should start by funding their own researchers appropriately. Just sayin’.
Now do increased research budget. EU sucks at funding research.
They should call it operation stapler