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#braindrain

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Jon Udell

"there are stirrings in Europe to provide safe places for American researchers. This is the beginning of something hopeful. But it also raises the question of what UK institutions are doing to meet the coming challenge. The answer, at the moment, seems to be nothing much. Perhaps that’s because most of British academia still can’t get its head around the idea that the US is now an enemy, not an ally, and that the “special relationship” is yesterday’s story."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The bullying of Columbia is the canary in the coalmine which reveals the Trump-Musk junta has it in for American universities. There are two reasons for their hostility. The first is that, as elite institutions devoted to freedom of inquiry and the telling of uncomfortable truths, they are anathema to the new autocrats in Washington. The second is that some of them (the so-called Ivy League) are fabulously wealthy, being for the most part hedge funds with nice universities attached. And if there’s one thing that Donald Trump cannot abide, it is large pots of money that he and his ghastly tribe can smell but not touch. So if the aloof trustees of Harvard, Princeton, Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday.
#BrainDrain
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Juggling With Eggs

@cindyweinstein

‘[Many] scientists had not planned on relocating, until #Trump began gutting funding and firing researchers.

“This is my home — I really love my country,” says a graduate student at a top US university who works in plant genomics and agriculture. “But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now.”

The US’s #BrainDrain is definitely underway. I would guess 1/3 of those thinking about it will act on it this year - especially those early career

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DoomsdaysCW

#UniversityOfToronto hires three prominent Yale #professors worried about Trump

#Fascism scholar #JasonStanley and #historians #TimothySnyder and #MarciShore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second #Trump administration

by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025

"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale #professors to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto.

"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.

"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall.

"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.'

"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of #OnTyranny and The Road to #Unfreedom, and an outspoken critic of the #Trump administration.

"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'

"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.

"'All that said, yes, of course our #AmericanCatastrophe played a role in our final decision.'"

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torontotoday.ca/local/educatio
#UofT #Authoritarianism #BrainDrain #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol

TorontoToday.ca · UofT hires three prominent Yale professors worried about TrumpBy Allison Smith
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Weiser alter Mann :verified:

When are you MAGA?

Your IQ is below 75
You always lie
You choose your oppressor yourself
You believe everything but the truth
You think you are more valuable than other people
You hate everyone who is smarter

Do you really want to be MAGA?

Wann bist du MAGA?

Dein IQ ist unter 75
Du lügst immer
Du wählst deinen Unterdrücker selbst
Du glaubst alles, nur nicht die Wahrheit
Du hältst dich für wertvoller als andere Menschen
Du hasst alle, die klüger sind

Willst du wirklich MAGA sein?

#usa#braindrain#maga
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Levka

#BrainDrain

"The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation."

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.com75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leavingMore than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Plague Island Resistance

#BrainDrain

A professor seeking asylum from a dangerous regime in the global south, goes to Canada, struggles to get legal status and eventually gets a job as a janitor.

A professor seeking asylum from a dangerous regime in the US, goes to Canada, gets instant tenure at a new university and the locals celebrate online and call for quick processing of citizenship for them.

Qwhite a big difference.

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