I'm in the UK, and know several people currently applying to PhD and fellowship positions. It's near-impossible for UK applicants to get them these days (unless they're reserved for UK citizens) because there's been this huge influx of Ivy-league students from the US fleeing Trumpism, with glowing letters of recommendation. If this goes on, the US is going to really feel the effects of brain drain.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

the US is going to really feel the effects of brain drain.

Seems they don't need them anyway, I mean a lawyer in charge of Health and wtf in charge of Education etc

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

grandson went to school somewhere in Wales. finance i think. he's talking about no jobs and coming back here. if i was his age i'd get into air/land drones, like ukraine. good with electronics. future is there if we can manage.

[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 2 points 14 hours ago

Quite depressingly, the weapons/drones sector is one of the few fields that is still hiring large numbers of graduates. Not exactly what most people signed up for, but a lot of them feel that they don't have a choice

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The collapse of the U.S. just makes the rat race feel even more real for everyone.

There is already a large amount of qualified graduates across various fields from India and China. Now we're adding a third sizable country's worth of graduates to that.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The US ironically gets most of their smart people from brain drain/ immigrants.
Except from the handful elite of Ivy league , their education isn't great.