America is sabotaging its own scientific research with cutting the NSF budget from $9 billion to only $3 billion, using AI to evaluate grant proposals and shift NSF funding from universities to private companies

https://www.science.org/content/article/my-boss-was-crying-nsf-confronts-potentially-massive-layoffs-and-budget-cuts

As a result, applications for positions as research group leaders from the US at Germany‘s Max Planck have doubled 🚀🔬
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/usa-forschung-kuerzungen-100.html

@fj The purpose is to suck the US dry from anyone with intelligence enough to be dangerous to the new regime. And it's working because it's becoming impossible to function in that hellscape.