Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

Nearly 300 academics have applied to a French university’s offer to take in US-based researchers rattled by the American government’s crackdown on academia, as a former French president called for the creation of a “scientific refugee” status for academics in peril.

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    54·
    2 days ago

    My German Visa was just approved. Off to a university asap. We take two STEM professors with kids going into engineering as a group out of the US. I have a feeling we’re just the leading edge of the sluice gates opening.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      90 years ago, Germans were coming to America. Today, the flow is the other direction. History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.

      I wish i was valuable enough to be able to leave, but i dont have any important skills, and I spent the last 12 years exercising my 1st Amendment rights on Reddit before being permabanned in the post Inauguration bloodbath. They’ve got my post history, and sooner or later the list of people to oppress will reach my name.