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Spurred by “alarming political interference in academic research by the Trump administration,” Brussels’s Vrije Universiteit (VUB), or Free University, allocated $2.7 million in funding last week for at least 12 new postdoctoral roles open to “censored Americans.”

washingtonpost.comEurope races to lure U.S. scientists as Trump puts pressure on universitiesSome European universities are offering funding for American scientists considering a relocation and promising a safe haven free from academic censorship.

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Nice. But peanuts. What we need is MEGA! bsky.app/profile/tuom...

Tuomas Pernu@tuomaspernu.bsky.social

It's time for MEGA: let's make Europe great again! The Nazis & Operation Paperclip crippled European science & culture. Now the US is conducting its own purge. The EU should invest billions into academia, set up new programmes and research centres. Should have done this before Brexit already.

Brain drain. Happened to Germany back in the day. When Nazis move in, smart people leave. Unfortunately we don’t all have the ability to bounce and have to stay for the impending unspeakable violence.

After WWII, the USA snatched up all the European scientists who weren't three trees to the wind. But, you always meet twice, on the way up and when it goes down again. On the other hand, I have long believed that US policy is trying to flood Europe with refugees. They have probably extended that.

I’ve posted this before that European countries should attract all US scientists/researches/medical and Academics. US will be falling behind as the Powerful Free world country. It will be another Russia under Trump