He said that, and announced some funding, but here in France we’ve also been cutting our budgets for a long time. University funding was decreased by 1.5 billion euros in just the latest budget. And research and teaching aren’t the only area losing funding.
We are not yet at the same stage as the US, but we could get there.
A big part of the reason I went to grad school was to get that golden visa. It’s a lot easier with high degrees. It’s harder for me to travel now, but I don’t regret it. The job seeking though, is pretty rough as is atm. I spoke to a PI about a postdoc and she said she got 60 or so applicants.
Academia was a tough way to make a living even before all of this. It’s a sad state of affairs. Just completely backwards in priorities and ideology. Its always been that way I suppose but in this moment it feels much more acute.
This is a huge deal.
I wonder how easy it will be in practice for scientists to emigrate, I know macron announced a program
He said that, and announced some funding, but here in France we’ve also been cutting our budgets for a long time. University funding was decreased by 1.5 billion euros in just the latest budget. And research and teaching aren’t the only area losing funding.
We are not yet at the same stage as the US, but we could get there.
A big part of the reason I went to grad school was to get that golden visa. It’s a lot easier with high degrees. It’s harder for me to travel now, but I don’t regret it. The job seeking though, is pretty rough as is atm. I spoke to a PI about a postdoc and she said she got 60 or so applicants.
Academia was a tough way to make a living even before all of this. It’s a sad state of affairs. Just completely backwards in priorities and ideology. Its always been that way I suppose but in this moment it feels much more acute.