Alán Aspuru-Guzik takes a lot of calls these days from scientists considering an exit from the United States. Aspuru-Guzik, a theoretical chemist, left Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during Donald Trump’s first term as US president, from 2017 to 2021, to join the University of Toronto in Canada and hasn’t looked back. “I’m the happiest guy here,” he says.
Here, Nature talks to Jones, Aspuru-Guzik and others who left during Trump’s first term about relocating and reshaping their careers. They have plenty of advice.
Step 1: be a scientist.
Unironically… it is considerably easier to relocate as a scientist, if not only for the lack of language requirements (English is the lingua franca everywhere in academia) and being automatically a “high-skilled immigrant”
Also this is Nature News where my personal guess is 90% of their reader base work in academia sooo
And are scientists themselves
Get a phd is the first step, not to mention all the steps to apply for a phd plus all the bullshit and red tape to become one
Yeah that’s what my takeaway was too. He doesn’t talk about “how to get over there” it’s all about “once you’re there”.
To be fair, we are in the science community
Just by pure statistics most people interested in science won’t be true scientists.
Kinda miss the days when all you needed to be a scientist was a knowledge of basic taxonomy, a steady hand, and a vast personal fortune.