Re:Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation
by atemerev on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:49PM
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There are no free countries wealthy enough to do that. European salaries in the academia are laughable even by American academic standards, including supposedly rich countries like Germany and Netherlands. Switzerland is too small, and cut her scientific funding recently as well. UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc are authoritarian petrostates.
One country that will actually drain American researchers will be China.
Re:Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation
by mschuster91 on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:01PM
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> One country that will actually drain American researchers will be China.
Not really. Even if they'd shower American scientists in money, who will guarantee they won't be taken hostage in a political conflict? It has happened in the past [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...
European universities would love to do so, the problem is that our model of funding is just as braindead as it is in the US (if not worse, like in Germany) and our politicians are too braindead or unwilling to fix the circumstances.