Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in (2025)

vrganj 23 points 9 comments April 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)

jandrewrogers

This is great but I am skeptical that there is the kind of resource and compensation behind it that would be required to make this a real thing.

woodpanel

Great, as if Europe hasn’t been wrecked by American Social Sciences already. Furthermore at current projections, the speed at which MAGA is imploding, those who still make the migration won’t be the ones fleeing „persecution“ but rather „market forces“

DivingForGold

Don't know about other professions, but typical pay for software engineers in Europe only like $60K a year, perhaps some European software engineers working for European corporations can chime in.

wewewedxfgdf

The cost to do this is trivial why don't all countries open their arms and wallets for academic talent from USA? I put it to you because all around the world countries no longer value academic research.

enaaem

As research is being defunded [1], scientists affected have nowhere to go, so you can pick them up at a discount. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo

opengrass

Europeans use US tech with backdoors, they do their research for free.

NordStreamYacht

This is from a year ago. Would be interesting to see the results of this campaign.

ChrisArchitect

Some more discussion at the time: Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943583 EU's von der Leyen invites scientists, researchers to make Europe their home https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43841789

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