Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts

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Post by c420 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts
reuters.com

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Post by constantcrying » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

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Post by unixhero » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:47 PM UTC

Austria is a really wonderful place to live as well. Food, bakery traditions, beer traditions, world class skiing.

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Post by cjbgkagh » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

constantcrying wrote: post #2

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

Not an academic so there could be some context I don’t know but upon reading it it’s even worse, grants for 2 years, looks more like a secondment than a coup.

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Post by htk » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:50 PM UTC

constantcrying wrote: post #2

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

Because it's a reason to bash Trump.

Trump gives plenty of reasons to be bashed, but this news article seems like a stretch.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

constantcrying wrote: post #2

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

constantcrying wrote: post #2

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

Need to start somewhere. In 2024 how many researchers did the same?

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Post by sherr » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

htk wrote: post #5

constantcrying wrote: post #2

How is 25 American takings jobs in Austria newsworthy?

Because it's a reason to bash Trump. Trump gives plenty of reasons to be bashed, but this news article seems like a stretch.

Taking a less cynical view, it's just successful Austrian PR.

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Post by htk » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 6:36 PM UTC

sherr wrote: post #8

htk wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's a reason to bash Trump. Trump gives plenty of reasons to be bashed, but this news article seems like a stretch.

Taking a less cynical view, it's just successful Austrian PR.

It's right in the first paragraph:

"Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities."

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Post by throw_m239339 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #3

Austria is a really wonderful place to live as well. Food, bakery traditions, beer traditions, world class skiing.

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