Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: ‘The science world is ending’
Posted by JibunNiMakenai
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: ‘The science world is ending’
Posted by JibunNiMakenai
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As a science PhD researcher, I’ve seen this a lot. There are a lot of funding issues already and everyone is panicking about it. I’d love to leave the US, but I only speak English and it’s hard to get a job in another country.
The only reason I am alive is because my grandpa, an immigrant scientist, came to the US on a research grant. His research would go on to help impoverished rice farmers for a decade, until his breakthrough was replaced by another.
He dedicated his whole life to bio-medical research and now two of his grandkids are anti-vaxxers that voted for the current administration.
Trickles down to clinical
Ops teams, the ones who are the heartbeat of clinical trials, to do the work to run the clinical trials. Teams are tightening their resources and piling double work on the individuals and cutting their salaries. People get burnt out and quiet-quit or companies lay off dedicated and highly trained workers and are left with inexperienced ones who will do the work for half the pay, just to have a job. I know. I am living this hell
A number of my friends and colleagues (primarily at R1 institutions) are considering leaving for countries all over the world. They have all been pitched and approached. We are not yet at the point of no return, but dear god – there’s going to be a lot to fix and make up for, if we are able to stop it soon. And if we can’t fix it, America as a leader in this space – is over as we know it.
The one thing that really concerns me is that I am not sure we will stop this. 1930s Germany was not stopped from the inside. It took external forces to do so. I’m not sure anyone will want to stop us and we will die of and from our own demise.
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