I thought i heard about fascism brain-drain happening in the 1930s and early 1940s, although obviously that time they were LEAVING Europe to come to the United States...

... I wonder how much of America's delusions of "excellence" can be traced directly to so many of the smart people fleeing Hitler.

Perhaps the 21st century will take a shape that shall reflect how all the education, skill, and expertise fled Trump.

It is at least thematically appropriate that he's objectively such a moron that he literally repels intellect.

Went from Operation Paperclip to Operation Dumpsterfire.

"Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114. The ERC does not routinely publish information on the nationalities of applicants, but Kieron Flanagan, a science-policy researcher at the University of Manchester, says that he suspects many of these senior researchers are Europe-born or Europe-trained, and are “opting to use the ERC grant as a mechanism to escape the US system”"

@science

Also to Canada.

Y’all got anymore of them migrations?

If I had some skill that was in demand, I'd definitely looking for a job offer from Europe.

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Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114.

So 114 applications for one? It would be important to see the raw numbers because even 10x of 114 is miniscule.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d24/tables/dt24_315.20.asp

840k full-time professors at US universities. And Europe would probably get the lower tiers because why would a tenured US professor give up their tenure to move to Europe.

So article cites 114 for one grant. Let's assume 100x that, so 11,400 professors coming over. That's a little over 1% of professors