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These scientists left the US in Trump’s first term: their tips on taking the leap (www.nature.com)
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik takes a lot of calls these days from scientists considering an exit from the United States. Aspuru-Guzik, a theoretical chemist, left Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during Donald Trump’s first term as US president, from 2017 to 2021, to join the University of Toronto in Canada and hasn’t looked back. “I’m the happiest guy here,” he says.

Here, Nature talks to Jones, Aspuru-Guzik and others who left during Trump’s first term about relocating and reshaping their careers. They have plenty of advice.

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sooo what I liked about this news is... On subreddits for researchers, I see a lot of negative sentiment towards the hard numbers of ppl wanting to leave US, because "EU has even fewer funding", "difficult to integrate", "no one really moved during the first term", etc... In contrast to that this is actually a surprisingly level-headed and well-written report that discusses this on a more personal level, so I do appreciate that