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> If I were in charge of science in a wealthy country right now I would be working overtime to brain drain US researchers. European universities would love to
by mschuster91 1y ago
> If I were in charge of science in a wealthy country right now I would be working overtime to brain drain US researchers.
European universities would love to do so, the problem is that our model of funding is just as braindead as it is in the US (if not worse, like in Germany) and our politicians are too braindead or unwilling to fix the circumstances.
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- atemerev 1y agoThere are no free countries wealthy enough to do that. European salaries in the academia are laughable even by American academic standards, including supposedly rich countries like Germany and Netherlands. Switzerland is too small, and cut her scientific funding recently as well. UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc are authoritarian petrostates. One country that will actually drain American researchers will be China.
- mschuster91 1y ago> One country that will actually drain American researchers will be China. Not really. Even if they'd shower American scientists in money, who will guarantee they won't be taken hostage in a political conflict? It has happened in the past [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_and_Michael_Kovrig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...