JimScientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
Das
RandyNose 
🐱🙄 The chaos of the orange fluff ball bozo... 🤦♂️
Tariqthis is good, right.
it sends a visible signal that something is very wrong in the USA
the wrong picture would be business as usual with some excluded from joining in, and other kidnapped and sent to gulags
Michael BuschAs I keep writing:
There are reasons the last few conferences I have called in to have been hybrid with the in-person components in Japan, South Africa, and Spain.
And why future ones will be hybrid with in-person components in Finland and Canada.
Dan@toyotabedzrock a lot of the engineering sector ones are choosing European cities too (although this was often the case before anyway)
Frankfurt and Amsterdam seem to be popular choices at the moment
Robin Barton@toyotabedzrock Canada here and I know many people have made it blindingly clear they will not be visiting. First, the destruction of democracy is not something we want to support with our money. Second, we have no wish to go to El Salvador because some border agent has had a bad day
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@toyotabedzrock Correction: Amid fascism fears. When you literally risk life-threatening rendition simply for looking insufficiently 'Murican™️ to any random domestic terrorist in a uniform, that's not just "border fears".
SilvertipGrizz@toyotabedzrock oh well ……..
Ian@toyotabedzrock Good. A lot of Americans are about to learn where most of their "exceptionalism" actually comes from.