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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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unironically... it is considerably easier to relocate as a scientist, if not only for the lack of language requirements (English is the lingua franca everywhere in academia) and being automatically a "high-skilled immigrant"

Also this is Nature News where my personal guess is 90% of their reader base work in academia sooo

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

And are scientists themselves