Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in (2025)
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jandrewrogers
enaaem
As research is being defunded [1], scientists affected have nowhere to go, so you can pick them up at a discount.
NordStreamYacht
This is from a year ago. Would be interesting to see the results of this campaign.
wewewedxfgdf
The cost to do this is trivial why don't all countries open their arms and wallets for academic talent from USA?
I put it to you because all around the world countries no longer value academic research.
stavros
Aren't you putting this to us on an article about how countries are opening up their arms and wallets for academic talent from the USA?
woodpanel
Great, as if Europe hasn’t been wrecked by American Social Sciences already.
Furthermore at current projections, the speed at which MAGA is imploding, those who still make the migration won’t be the ones fleeing „persecution“ but rather „market forces“
woodpanel
FYI:
Don’t know why but this has so many upvotes, so I want to be clear: by „social sciences“ I‘ve meant the toxic „science“ disseminating from US social sciences departments colloquially referred to as „Wokeness“ which intra-US might be shrugged off as coping mechanism for mentally ill Ivy League members, but outside the US just comes down to outright cultural imperialism.
opengrass
Europeans use US tech with backdoors, they do their research for free.
DivingForGold
Don't know about other professions, but typical pay for software engineers in Europe only like $60K a year, perhaps some European software engineers working for European corporations can chime in.
rcbdev
Yeah, in Austria this includes 5 weeks mandatory PTO, unlimited paid sick days, which you can actually take without getting fired, and paid maternity and paternity leave - a senior developer will get around €75-80k a year.
Consulting rates for SWE here are around €80/h - €120/h depending on seniority and customer, maybe this makes for a fairer comparison.
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion at the time:
Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943583
EU's von der Leyen invites scientists, researchers to make Europe their home
This is great but I am skeptical that there is the kind of resource and compensation behind it that would be required to make this a real thing.