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Meet the researchers leaving the U.S. over Trump's funding cuts and politicization of science ->Los Angeles Times | More on "Scientists leaving US for funding" at BigEarthData.ai | #Science

latimes.comMeet the researchers leaving the U.S. over Trump's funding cuts and politicization of scienceHalley Froehlich was sure she’d spend her scientific career in the United States. Her family has been in America since the 1700s. But over the last two years, delayed federal grants and fears about the future motivated her to pack her life into boxes. She moved to Finland with her husband and daughter and is continuing her research — studying how fish, shellfish and seaweed that humans eat are responding to climate change — at the University of Helsinki. When the Trump administration began upending U.S. scientific research last year, dismantling the federal grant-giving process and attempting to exert more political influence over what projects get funded, foreign universities saw an opportunity. They adopted programs to lure U.S. researchers abroad, promising more stable streams of funding and academic freedom. Since then, many researchers have taken up the offers. While there is no way to quantify the overall change across the nation, scientists, researchers and professional groups say the shift is clear, unprecedented and concerning. “You can almost talk to any vice president for research at a university and they will tell you of one or two top faculty that they’ve lost,” said Tobin Smith, senior vice president of government relations...

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