The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.
Scientific language 1900: German.
Scientific language 2000: English.
Scientific language 2100: Chinese.
Scientific language 2200: Klingon
As an early career scientist, the poaching is only for leading scientists. So even with that a lot of people in US have to leave science, which was already bad because scientists made like half the salary of same expertise in an industry position.
Uh no it’s not.
It helps fund entire departments at universities.
From associates to post docs. Everyone is fucked. Except non academia scientists that work for corporations in R&D.
And even a large chunk of that is funded by government grants.
Could? It has already started happening last year.
What is this supposed to mean? The brain drain has been underway ever since the fascists took the helm - take the medical field, for example: The CDC used to be an organization of enormous global importance. After this absurd conspiracy-theorist clown took office, the majority of the capable staff were fired because they refused to go along with his anti-science bullshit. Now the CDC is barely a shadow of its former self and has consequently lost both its credibility and its purpose on the international stage. This has cost many lives and done enormous damage to the US as a center of scientific excellence.
This is the case in many areas, which is hardly surprising under a Nazi regime that portrays science as the enemy.
B-b-but this article hasn’t yet gotten its clicks yet!!?!
Journalists are constantly “surprised” (shocked, Shocked - SHOOKETH I tell you!!), because we pay them to be such (by clicking).
No shit, hey thanks for so very tentatively hinting at the suggestion NYT. On the leading edge of journalism as always.
Part of the same media that probably thought explaining how awful Donvict was back in 2015 was hysterical or unfair, so spent lots of time dunking on Hillary for “balance”.
Same way they treated Project 2025 in the run up to 2024 election. The MSM all spent lots of time amplifying maximalist leftist “concerns” over Gaza, as if Donvict was not going to be much, much worse.
Exactly so.
And thank goodness for that.
They had brains? Oh my!
Some of the cream of the crop. Too bad the Republicans treat all of humanity like they are a crab in a bucket of crabs. They drag everyone down that is trying to ascend to something higher.
I always say they are the North American Taliban. Back to the middle ages.
lol some of us do. For the record I’m one of the people who elected for a different career because the country gives 0 shits about science. PhD stipends are laughable, I make 3-4x that as an entry level tech employee.
I know i meant mostly the government and maga. It’s a tremendous shame that you’re losing the brains in your country because science should be above everything.
I have a clinical doctorate and can make about 110k. I have also chosen to work on a PhD for research in my field. When i finish at the end of the year, my additional doctorate and an entry research job should bring my earning potential to… 110k. Or I can do a post-doc and earn 65k. I can also go into industry and make about 170k. I did my clinical fellowship at NIH and saw the research first hand and know how needed amd impactful it is. Science in this country was already getting strained, under trump it has become a joke.
It’s quite frustrating honestly. Being in the lab, having flexible hours, and solving problems that you often willingly spend your free time doing them are things I miss even if it’s sometimes a grind and the bureaucracy can be annoying. Now I deal with all that except the people I interact with are often not as intellectually oriented and it’s all about profit margins and speed even if I kind of like the job itself. Maybe that’s just the industry I’m in though.
