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Here's a very in-depth and well-reported profile of Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, a superstar astrophysicist who has done pioneering work for decades in the US ...
... but recently left to work in the Netherlands, in the wake of the Trump administration's huge cuts to funding for scientific research
Powerful piece, super depressing
i hope scientific research funding gets serious attention in the upcoming congress
@clive the usa-ians get what they voted for 😄 as do we all. ( i didn't vote for trudeau carney, pp and the bc conservatives. voted for the ndp and greens every single election of the last 20 years because i am stubborn :-)).
@clive No better way to kneecap a modern technological society than to make its scientists leave. One could almost be led to believe that the US is specifically aiming for brain drain as a literal policy position at this point.
Like if you were to have gone back 10 years to when Trump first took office and ran a study on how to make an environment hostile to scientists, it would look an awful lot like what we're seeing now.
I hope the future is brighter abroad for all of them.
Yeah, the cuts to science really were a “make China great again” move
I expect that Putin couldn't be happier, kinda like he had planned it.
@clive it is depressing, and surely highly disruptive to the scientists who have to uproot and move to another country. But, it probably isn’t great for there to be too high of a concentration of scientists in any one country.
good point -- not terrible to have that talent widespread
@clive It's likely going to take a decade just to stop the bleeding Trump started. Recovery will take even longer.