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🚀 "US scientists are fleeing like it's a fire drill! 🔥 But hey, it's just America's 'generous' way of donating its intellectual capital to the world, right? 🌍🤓 Who needs innovation when you can export your best brains for free?" 💡👋
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A Quarter of US-Trained Scientists Eventually Leave. Is the US Giving Away Its Edge?

Using newly-assembled data from 1980 through 2024, we show that 25% of scientifically-active, US-trained STEM PhD graduates leave the US within 15 years of graduating. Leave rates are lower in the life sciences and higher in AI and quantum science but overall have been stable for decades. Contrary to common perceptions, US technology benefits from these graduates' work even if they leave: though the US share of global patent citations to graduates' science drops from 70% to 50% after migrating, it remains five times larger than the destination country share, and as large as all other countries combined. These results highlight the value that the US derives from training foreign scientists - not only when they stay, but even when they leave.

arXiv.org

Hacker News Dec 15

1/4 of US-Trained Scientists Eventually Leave. Is the US Giving Away Its Edge?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11146

#HackerNews #USScientists #Expatriation #BrainDrain #InnovationEdge #SciencePolicy

A Quarter of US-Trained Scientists Eventually Leave. Is the US Giving Away Its Edge?

Using newly-assembled data from 1980 through 2024, we show that 25% of scientifically-active, US-trained STEM PhD graduates leave the US within 15 years of graduating. Leave rates are lower in the life sciences and higher in AI and quantum science but overall have been stable for decades. Contrary to common perceptions, US technology benefits from these graduates' work even if they leave: though the US share of global patent citations to graduates' science drops from 70% to 50% after migrating, it remains five times larger than the destination country share, and as large as all other countries combined. These results highlight the value that the US derives from training foreign scientists - not only when they stay, but even when they leave.

arXiv.org

Nursing Manthra Oct 7

Nobel Medicine prize for US, Japan scientists

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DrWeb Jul 21

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts | US news | The Guardian

‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts

President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs

By Nina Lakhani, Sun 20 Jul 2025 07.00 EDT

“Our ability to respond to climate change, the biggest existential threat facing humanity, is totally adrift,” said Sally Johnson, an Earth scientist who has spent the past two decades helping collect, store and distribute data at Nasa (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

Donald Trump’s assault on science – but particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs across federally funded agencies and programs, threatening to derail research tackling the most pressing issues facing Americans and humanity more broadly. A generation of scientific talent is also on the brink of being lost, with unprecedented political interference at what were previously evidence-driven agencies jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth.

Johnson was among scores of scientists conducting vital research across a range of fields from infectious diseases, robotics, education, computer science and the climate crisis, who responded to a Guardian online callout to share their experiences about the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to science funding.

Many said they had already had funding slashed or programs terminated, while others fear that cuts are inevitable and are beginning to search for alternative work – either overseas or outside science. So far, the cuts have led to a 60% reduction in Johnson’s team, and fear is mounting over the future of 30 years of climate data and expertise as communities across the country are battered by increasingly destructive extreme weather events.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts | US news | The Guardian

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