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

Sooo what I liked about this news is… On subreddits for researchers, I see a lot of negative sentiment towards the hard numbers of ppl wanting to leave US, because “EU has even fewer funding”, “difficult to integrate”, “no one really moved during the first term”, etc… In contrast to that this is actually a surprisingly level-headed and well-written report that discusses this on a more personal level, so I do appreciate that

That checks out, thanks for pointing this out. I’m much more familiar with clinical trials where ppl’s race/ethnicity do play an importance (and is also a hot topic for debate… from both sides of the political spectrum), hence I was a bit surprised they didn’t include it. If there really is no significant cultural differences that would be amazing

Also one can dream they get 120+ participants for scanning

To give them credit… neuroscience and scanning ppl’s brain is expensive lol. But yeah, 15 participants and no open access, I have no clue exactly what or how they did this