‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown (theguardian.com)

Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain, sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their scholarly endeavors elsewhere. Historically, the US has attracted top talent from around the world, but the moves by the Trump administration may have reversed these conditions in record time.

Europe and Canada are quietly loving Trump’s attacks on academia, as they’re directly benefitting from it. I remain hopeful that his idiotic anti-science crusade will be short-lived (limited, at worst, to the remainder of his term) and that our return to scientific excellence will have a bent of vengeance to it.