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2025-05-13 Europe

Ursula's Magnet: How Europe Poaches Disgruntled Scientists from the States

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [196 views ] Top

#1 My impression (based on my past employer) is that Euros use Marie Curie reintegration grants to sabotage Israeli Academia.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-13 03:58|| 2025-05-13 03:58|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you mean, Grom.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-13 04:34|| 2025-05-13 04:34|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Huge grants to markedly dumb people.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-13 05:05|| 2025-05-13 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 They’re poaching your dumb scientists?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-13 09:09|| 2025-05-13 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Still, perhaps better than their own.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-13 09:41|| 2025-05-13 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Without the 'entrepreneurial culture' this sounds as effective as Pacific islanders building imitation airfields out of palm leaves in the Cargo Cult. Largely you will only get opportunists and grifters not real science...

Posted by magpie 2025-05-13 09:50|| 2025-05-13 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 DEI paradise. Let's call it the Lysenko Program.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-13 10:08|| 2025-05-13 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 No. They give these grants to Israeli scientists returning to Israel after getting PhD in USA. It's for Europeans in general and Israel is considered part of Europe (like for Eurovision).

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-13 11:06|| 2025-05-13 11:06|| Front Page Top

#9 They can have any scientist who has Covid vax or global warming on their resume.

Posted by Regular joe 2025-05-13 13:20|| 2025-05-13 13:20|| Front Page Top

#10 they can have as many as will leave!

Posted by Gravilet Snanter4154 2025-05-13 18:50|| 2025-05-13 18:50|| Front Page Top

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