French university to fund American scientists who fear Trump censorship
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 2025 11:44
https://lemmy.world/post/26409691
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 2025 11:44
https://lemmy.world/post/26409691
Summary
France’s Aix Marseille University is launching a €15 million “safe place for science” program to support U.S. researchers who fear censorship under Trump’s administration.
The initiative, covering climate, health, and social sciences, will fund 15 researchers over three years. Trump’s government has frozen grants and purged climate-related research, leading to fears of widespread funding cuts.
Aix Marseille previously aided scientists from conflict zones. While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies.
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Canada, please do the same.
Drain our brains. Europe, Canada, Mexico, Oceania: have at it, make this world safer for us all. I bet Cuba could get some of our medical researchers, too. Cripple the Trump regime.
Colonizers colonizing colonizers.
Capitalism eating itself.
-a country famous for innovation and technology making a decision they surely will not regret.
The kleptocratic oligarchs really won’t regret it, and they don’t give a fuck what the rest of us think.
We need to make them regret it.
USAID is now Aid for the US.
Europe, Australia need a new operation paperclip to save scientists from Nazi USA.
Just white people saving white people, huh? That’s a solid plan for defeating nazis… \s
Scientists are in my experience very often not natives.
Considering the low wage in French Academia, and the lack of permanent position (Which used to be a benefit offsetting lower wages) I am not sur it'll attract that much person.
But still a great initiative.
Do you imagine that USA is any better?
If “scientists” want to contribute something worthwhile to humanity, it’s not going to happen inside the imperial core.
I don’t necessarily see how these are opposing viewpoints. Both are certainly true
Here comes France again to help Americans from royal persecution.
It’s 1778 all over again.
I’m sure there is plenty further to fall.
It’s a bold claim to say it’s about draining brains when america had been draining europe brains for decades