PipWelcome, American scientists: Europe, a haven for researchers struggling under Trump
Unless you want to stay permanently, then you had better be ready for wave after wave of anti-immigration policy
But only from like 50% of the people and those people don’t like Trump either so they actually understand you left your country. Also, the whiter you look the less people will see you as an immigrant. And once you tell people you have a job and pay taxes even the biggest racist suddenly stops caring about whether you are or aren’t a local.
Those policies do not target researchers or other highly skilled migrants. Stop treating immigration as a monolithic block.
Depends where in Europe you are. In many countries, immigration policy does treat immigrants as a monolithic block. I live in one of them. It may be easier to get a work visa as a highly skilled person, but it doesn’t change much when it gets to applying for permanent residency or citizenship.
Is it? We are completely underfunded and for our local universities 50-70% of buildings are in dire need of renovations. Granted, this has been exacerbated by the current administration, but the problems with the buildings have been brewing for years/decades.
I am in Berlin btw.
Real question: In which country is research properly funded?
I heard that the issue in Germany is that the buildings are not funded nationally.
I am not exactly sure how the financing works. The city made the current cuts to the budget, so I guess they are least finance a part of the universities.
In theory the TU Berlin has the money to renovate one of their most important buildings (physics), but as far as I know the proposal was turned down (either internally or externally)
So yeah, half of the physics department is kind of losing their workplace and laboratories right now. They even had a nobel laureate from japan write the major to say: “this research is important, they need the funding if we are to work with the TU in the future”
Sorry for ranting. It’s a heated topic for me
It sounds like TU Berlin doesn’t have a facility management function or contractor. Very bizarre.
I believe they have a department for this and I did some research and found out that planning on a new physics building is currently being done (seems my information was outdated). The “Bauherr” ist the senate of the city, so at least in this case they are not doing it “in house”.