r/UpliftingNews • u/ahothabeth • 3d ago

Europe to burned American scientists: We’ll take you in

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-brain-drain-academic-research-progressive-institutions/
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u/TranquilSeaOtter 3d ago

AMU President Eric Berton told POLITICO that the program — which was “born of indignation at what is happening to our American colleagues” — had been inundated with applications from nearly 150 researchers hailing from top universities including Yale, Colombia and Stanford, as well as from U.S. government agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA.

Let the brain drain of the United States commence.

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u/PiotrekDG 2d ago

Operation ClipPaper.

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u/nerankori 2d ago

Operation repappilC

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u/Miss_Speller 2d ago

qilɔɿɘqɒᑫ noiɟɒɿɘqO

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u/Mammoth-Pipe-5375 2d ago

That's funny thinking we'll have the thinking power to figure out what that is in a few years

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u/skadoosh0019 2d ago

To bring us to the modern age…Operation Clippy

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u/Shudnawz 2d ago edited 2d ago

"It looks like you're trying to speedrun your country into oblivion. Would you like some help to evacuate your scientists?"

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u/Grandtheatrix 2d ago

Came here to make this joke, happy to see i wasn't the only one.

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u/notgoodatkarate 2d ago

Same. We're all cool people with great taste.

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u/Flat-Mirror-9566 2d ago

Operation Stapler