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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by jarfil@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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What they were offering – through a programme titled Safe Place for Science – was a sort of “scientific asylum”, offering three years of funding at their facility for about 20 researchers.

On Thursday the university said it had received 298 applications in a month, of which 242 were deemed eligible. The applicants hailed from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford, it said in a statement.

Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote in the French newspaper Libération.

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[–] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

science will occur just not here anymore. take a look at the middle east once the science capitol of the world for thousands of years it is only now coming back.

[–] IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

The worst thing is that science is produced in Israel

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Believe it. The brain drain