politics

My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.

Well, to be fair, each person only has to find one job in order to make their move to another nation.

Also, if they are going to be targeted for other reasons (race, gender, religion, political views) in the longer term, or think they might, moving might be the far more preferable option even if they are initially not working in their field.

What's worse to me is the idea of more and more of the scientists who oppose this regime are now gone, so what kind of scientists are left in the US? It's not just drain, it's likely a hard rightward shift of disciplines within the country. Fascism loves a scientist without morals.

Unfortunately, I'm barely monolingual in English. If you have any recommendations for expats, I'd love to hear them - especially for someone that only knows English.

Do you have any tips for American engineers trying to move over?

I cannot say there will be pogroms against intellectuals, although some radical movements certainly have had theirs when we look at history. I also cannot say how many of the scientists leaving are also in at-risk groups from a Nat-C government.

I definitely understand people that just want to live their lives just picking up and moving to where they can do that. The people in this article concern those that worked toward something in science, it's not like they are professional activists or poli sci majors.

It's the crazy redcaps that decided to politicize everything to such an extent as to threaten reality-based livelihoods. And so if these people now have a choice of: being completely impoverished thanks to the childish "maga" (baby word) thing and maybe even targeted for violence or imprisonment, or move to a place that actually welcomes the reality-based community? It seems like a fairly obvious choice.

I feel like all of the ways to actually effectively solve it are just wildly immoral, unpopular, or just too far from cultural norms to really ever happen. We're cooked.

Like an obvious way to deal with nepotism would be simply not allow people to parent children and make children property of the state.

Now, when you're an adult you can earn whatever in the meritocracy and build whatever kind of life you want, marry whomever, and have as many kids as you want. You'll just never know those children.

Problem... solved?

That photo looks like it's from a dope new indie band.

Made me think of the uh, American Apparel style of photography, sans showing as much skin as is (or isn't) legally permissible.

I'm constantly befuddled as to which decade it even is when it comes to fashion. I keep seeing young girls wearing those shirts that came straight out of the 80s - those big shirts that come off one shoulder. No idea what they are called. I haven't seen those things in since forever - until the past few years.

At the same time, I just saw a gaggle of teens/early 20s kids crossing the road, and one of the girls was wearing a pair of those huge tracksuit pants that I haven't seen since early rave days.

I'm sure there has been fashion in the 00, teens, and now 20s, but most of it seems rather light touch or didn't last long, or spins on stuff from earlier decades...