Toulouse University wants to host US researchers whose work is at risk

This is smart. Every science research institution in Europe should be doing the same. This is once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take advantage of the own goals the US Government seems to be going for at the moment.

We welcome you warmly to France! Come build a just and loving society here with us in Europe, where we provide free healthcare, we pay for climate-proof infrastructure with trains and by reducing cars and coal, we're supportive of artists and journalists, and we're mostly thinking about how to create a society where everyone finds his or her place!

“Reverse brain drain”, so to say.<p>Well, good for Europe. Like it was good for the USA when (jewish) scientists emigrated there in the 30–40s.

I don’t think the details of this piece are too important. But I think it speaks to the global trajectory in science.

I think without strong and funding increases on the EU level this effort will stay localized and minimal. And comparing it when the reverse happened after WWII will stay wishful thinking. I think Europe and Canada faced problems with funding decreases even before any initiatives like that. I did not see much improvement in this regard.

This is great. Science will continue to happen, even if shifted a bit.<p>&gt; You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. And the science gets done. [---] Anyway, this cake is great. It&#x27;s so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking when there&#x27;s science to do.

But.. the researchers.. ok.. they can do this for you. Their research though? Does the &#x27;so far collected&#x2F;produced&#x27; information belong to someone else? Some other company X Uni, that (the company) funded the so-far research?)

I live in Toulouse as an Australian, it&#x27;s great here!

Political extremes are bad. Be in the Soviet Union on his day, the Nazi Regime, or the mini nationalistic-US blended with Neoconism.<p>You can&#x27;t mix a free market with an ultraconservative goverment with zero social rights unless you want your potential clients either flee away or die en masse. The same with Communism without individual rights.<p>I support an European style healthcare (I live in Spain and it works great), but some things like telecomms are better under private companies (or even community-built such as Mesh networks).<p>The future is not about extremes, but more like a moderated approach for goverments, such as social democracies. Mixing the worst stuff of every side it&#x27;s the recipe for collapse. Be in the US with schizophrenic self-harming classical liberal-conservative neocons, or in Russia with Duginism.