• homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I know brain drain is technically bad but…what did academia actually do in the US that wasn’t maintaining status quo or being paid out to publish studies in favor of whoever paid?

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      It’s Economist, by “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain” they really mean “America is in danger of experiencing stopping of them braindraining rest of the world”.

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      a lot of important research relies on public grants. medical research comes to mind as a field that has been hit pretty bad by DOGE’s anti-woke keyword search crusade