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And then we have problem of brain drain. #Germany sees 10-15% of graduates emigrate immediately. Better pay and less administrative insanity in Switzerland or Scandinavia make the choice easy for young #doctors. The state is essentially exporting high-value human capital it desperately needs to keep its own people alive.

#BrainDrain #HumanCapital #Economy #deutschland #switzerland

This outflow threatens the distinct roles of academic research in the scientific enterprise: innovation driven by curiosity rather than profit, as well as providing independent critique and ethical scrutiny. The fixation of “big tech” firms on skimming the very top talent also risks eroding the idea of science as a collaborative endeavor, in which teams—not individuals—do the most consequential work.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/academia-and-the-ai-brain-drain.html

#academia #braindrain

Academia and the "AI Brain Drain" - Schneier on Security

In 2025, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta collectively spent US$380 billion on building artificial-intelligence tools. That number is expected to surge still higher this year, to $650 billion, to fund the building of physical infrastructure, such as data centers (see go.nature.com/3lzf79q). Moreover, these firms are spending lavishly on one particular segment: top technical talent. Meta reportedly offered a single AI researcher, who had cofounded a start-up firm focused on training AI agents to use computers, a compensation package of $250 million over four years (see ...

Schneier on Security

good news! someone wants to drain your brain and have your mind under his total control.

bad news. it's Sam Altman :(

#MindControl #BrainDrain #cursed #OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #ChatGPT #kink #nsfw

Massive personnel shortage threatens new Trump plan: analysis Turns out competent professionals with marketable skills don't want to work for Nazis to oppress their fellow countrymen... who knew? #BrainDrain #cubersecurity #TheBestPeople www.alternet.org/trump-brain-...

Massive personnel shortage thr...
Massive personnel shortage threatens new Trump plan: analysis

After a lengthy delay, President Donald Trump released a national cybersecurity strategy on Friday afternoon — and, as one critic observed, it seems at odds with the reality of America “hemorrhaging cyber-talent.”Trump’s strategy is "impressively underachieving, even by the abysmal standards this Ad...

Alternet.org

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy

„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-after-iran-war

Israel After the Iran War

The false promise of total victory.

Foreign Affairs

Your phone is eating your brain's RAM even when it's completely turned off. In Ep 5 of Antisocial Scientists, we tackle the "brain drain" effect, how your phone pushes you into lazy System 1 thinking , and why a smartwatch is basically "the vape of the smoking world".
Listen here: https://batcamp.org/podcast/incel-lular-attention/

#HCI #SciencePodcast #BrainDrain #ScreenTime

Incel-lular Attention – Bat Camp

President Lee Jae-myung met with 250 members of Singapore's Korean community, hearing concerns on stablecoins, retirement age, brain drain and real estate while wearing a symbolic purple tie representing harmony between homeland and diaspora
#YonhapInfomax #PresidentLeeJaemyung #SingaporeKoreanCommunity #Stablecoins #BrainDrain #RealEstatePolicy #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=107462
President Lee Dons Purple Tie, Listens to Working Mothers, Financiers and Entrepreneurs

President Lee Jae-myung met with 250 members of Singapore's Korean community, hearing concerns on stablecoins, retirement age, brain drain and real estate while wearing a symbolic purple tie representing harmony between homeland and diaspora

Yonhap Infomax

Hey, smart US people!

Come to Finland, get a tax break.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20211326

#taxes #immigration #BrainDrain

Do you qualify for Finland's new 25% flat tax?

Finland is willing to reduce income taxes for those it most wants to attract.

News

So a government cancels research grants, slashes science budgets, restrict inflow of talented immigrants and what do you get?

A brain drain.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-science-funding-cuts

#science #research #braindrain

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

The Guardian

France is attracting top US researchers by promising greater academic freedom after grant issues in the US.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00405-2

#AcademicFreedom #ResearchMobility #BrainDrain #SciencePolicy #France

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.