75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation.
The trend was particularly pronounced among early-career researchers. Of the 690 postgraduate researchers who responded, 548 were considering leaving; 255 of 340 PhD students said the same.
Trump’s administration has slashed research funding and halted broad swathes of federally funded science, under a government-wide cost-cutting initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk. Tens of thousands of federal employees, including many scientists, have been fired and rehired following a court order, with threats of more mass firings to come. Immigration crackdowns and battles over academic freedom have left researchers reeling as uncertainty and disruption permeate all aspects of the US research enterprise.
Many respondents were looking to move to countries where they already had collaborators, friends, family or familiarity with the language. “Anywhere that supports science,” wrote one respondent. Some who had moved to the United States for work planned to return to their country of origin.
But many more scientists had not planned on relocating, until Trump began gutting funding and firing researchers. “This is my home — I really love my country,” says a graduate student at a top US university who works in plant genomics and agriculture. “But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now.”
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Trying to break up treaty laws with American Indians is just one example of how very stupid he is.
Maybe he needs to read about Andrew Jackson and the Cherokee v. Georgia cases to see how this disgrace has affected Jackson's "stellar" reputation.
>>What was the main reason for the conflict between the Cherokee and the United States?
The Indian Removal Act, legislation signed into law by Andrew Jackson, forcefully displaced thousands of Native Americans and divided the Cherokee Nation. Principal Chief John Ross refused to surrender Cherokee land and relocate to the “Indian Territory” of the West.
but,
President Jackson
The Indian Removal Act was supported by President Jackson and the Democratic Party, southern and white settlers, and several state governments, especially that of Georgia.
They were just as corrupt and greedy then as they are now.
The white man never has enough. NEVER!
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Thousands of Indian people and Freedmen died during this disgraceful chapter of history. No one seems to know nor talk about it much.
That said, my Cherokee grandmother remembered the stories as her family was on the Trail of Tears. She attempted to pass this history down but was ignored as her grandchildren were ashamed of her as she not "white" enough. Her father appears in the old census records and stated he was INDIAN. He died in 1936 in Batesville, Arkansas which is a place that the Trail of Tears ran through.
That said, my own mother who was adopted into the tribe was not. She was proud of this link and loved the woman that adopted and raised her.
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Is dump's goal to have a Nation filled with people stupid and uneducated idiots? 
When all they can say is "fake news" and "waste and fraud" that seems to be the case.
The stupider the better is his narcissistic red hat of hate world. 
& recommend.
