French university opens doors to 'threatened' US scientists

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Marine biologist Antje Boetius is concerned about the future of international research in the face of budget cuts in the US. Attacks on science and its structures under the new government of US President Trump have worked far beyond the United States, said the outgoing director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.

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Trump’s upheavals worry job-hunting postdoctoral researchers

As job-seeking scholars see continuing layoffs and stalled federal support, some say they’re looking at positions overseas. Julia Barnes, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow, was watching President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress last week when she heard him refer to her work as an “appalling waste” that needs to end. In a list of expenses he called “scams,” Trump mentioned a $60 million project for Indigenous peoples in…

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French research groups urged to welcome scientists fleeing US

French officials are urging their country's research institutions to consider welcoming scientists abandoning the United States due to President Donald Trump's funding cuts, AFP learned on Sunday.

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France mulls support for researchers fleeing Trump’s US policies

PARIS, March 9 — France has urged the country’s research institutions to consider how to welcome scientists abandoning the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s policies, AFP learned today. Since Trump returned to the White House, his government has cut federal funding for life-saving research and moved to dismiss hundreds of federal workers working on health and climate. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their…

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France offers refuge to US researchers fleeing Trump's policies

France has extended an invitation to US scientists reconsidering their future due to President Donald Trump's controversial policies.

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Some researchers want to escape the measures of the US President and the Minister of Higher Education and Research would like them to find refuge in France.