Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥Jun 25
Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥

it's kind of amazing to me that I get to work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours away from my rural hometown. it's also amazing to me how people will go so far from their homes and family to study here. if we keep treating the superstars who come here to study badly, they'll go elsewhere, and I worry that will mean my kids will go elsewhere too --

"If my kids excel, will they move away?"

https://jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/where-will-my-kids-go.html

Jun 21 at 7:18pmWeb
Show threadGarrett WollmanJun 21
@jbigham Nobody is left who remembers the time before WW2 when the US was an intellectual backwater and Americans who wanted to make their mark went to Oxford or Goettingen or the Sorbonne.
Show threadsreeJun 21
@jbigham What gets my goat is not that the US is regressing to treating non-citizens as second-class, the norm in much of the world (including my own country, India), but that current policies are actively hurting US citizens. In science funding -- halving GRFP, not funding REUs, getting rid of alternate pathways like CSGrads4US -- directly affects US citizens who want to pursue science. I cannot understand these moronic self-defeating policies.
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Jun 22
@jbigham <3